Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

DVD case now for software

When Eidos looked to package its multi-disc game software, Commandos 3: Destination Berlin and Deus Ex: Invisible War for North America, it selected the slim triple Alphapak from Nexpak.

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Secondary Packaging

Web Plus: Sites

FKI Logistex White Systemswww.whitesystems.comBuilt to streamline site navigation and information access, the redesigned Web site includes new Products & Services, Customer Service, Case Studies, and Video Library sections.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Preventing counterfeit drugs

The Food and Drug Administration’s Counterfeit Drug Task Force released a report describing a framework designed to prevent counterfeit drugs for the pharmaceutical supply chain.

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Meat/Poultry/Seafood

User fees

The proposed 2005 federal budget submitted to Congress by the Bush administration contains user fees for food processing facilities and for meat and poultry inspection.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

CLARIFICATION

In a Rules & Regs story appearing in the February issue of Packaging World, COOL labeling requirements with regard to fish were misstated. The omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress in January contained a two-year moratorium on COOL for all covered products except seafood.

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Closures

A holiday twist

Nestlé Canada offered Smarties Holiday Twist canisters with three moveable rings that allowed kids to move the colorful label graphics into multiple combinations.

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Beverage

Booked designs

Seven of Compass Design’s designs are published in the Big Book of New Design Ideas, a full-color, 384-page, hardbound book edited by David E. Carter and published by HarperCollins.

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Flexibles

Film-laminated cartons deliver for P&G

Procter & Gamble improves moisture barrier in its dry detergent cartons by shifting from a lacquer coating to film/paperboard lamination.

March 31, 2004

Flexibles

Irish coffee channels freshness

Bewley’s Ltd. in Ireland is the first to preserve freshness with a cost-saving method that eliminates degassing valves and boosts bagging speeds 10%.

March 31, 2004

Beverage

Boxed wine aims high

Black Box Wines uses inside-the-box thinking to redefine packaging for super-premium wines in the United States.

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Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Rinker invests in process improvement

Rinker’s multiwall valve-bag filling operation made big gains in productivity, accuracy, and ergonomics after management invested in three key upgrades.

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Contract Packaging

Outsourcing to CPs grows

The use of contract packagers expands, according to a survey of 200 representatives of end users. Satisfaction with service has improved.

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Flexibles

Espoma grows new bag line

New side-gusseted, flat-bottom plastic bags at plant food maker Espoma necessitate a new robotic palletizer, stretch-wrap bundler, and bag sealer.See video

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