Protective/transport packaging

Microsoft pack wins EPA design challenge

A new shipping package that looks like an envelope and protects like a box won the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cradle-to-Cradle E-Commerce Package Design Challenge, announced at the recent Pack Expo Las Vegas show in October.

November 30, 2003

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Closures

Recloseable can a first in North America

Hirzel Canning Co. and Farms, Toledo, OH, is test-marketing in Cleveland and Chicago recloseable 12-oz tin-plated steel cans of Dei Fratelli-brand Italian Dip and Pizza Sauce.

November 30, 2003

Labels

'Tis the season

Newly revised graphics now decorate Smith Dairy's 30- and 11-oz bottles of premium and low-fat Moovers-brand eggnog. Both products from the Orrville, OH-based dairy are ultra-pasteurized to offer 120-day shelf life. The refrigerated products reached store shelves in mid-October.

November 30, 2003

Beverage

Bioterrorism leads to electronic record keeping

With the new Bioterrorism law, Electronic record keeping isn't required per se, but it's an inevitability to realistically meet such a deadline.

November 30, 2003

Labels

Creating a sparkling holiday design

Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice Cocktails will be dressed as Nutcrackers this year for the holiday season, thanks to designers at The Bailey Group.

November 30, 2003

Beverage

A grateful label design

Wine packager, Allied Domecq Wines recently turned to Michael Osborne Design to create new packaging for its J.Garcia Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot wines.

November 30, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Bone-in shrink bags

Pechiney Plastic Packaging unveils its next generation ClearShield high-barrier bone-in shrink bag for fresh beef and pork.

November 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

WeserGold: Sterilizing/filling/transporting/discharging for aseptic PET juice bottling line

PET bottle exteriors are sterilized with vaporized hydrogen peroxide during a summer test run on a new aseptic bottling line at WeserGold’s plant in Rinteln, Germany.

October 31, 2003

Flexibles

Foam-in-place system

IntelliPack offers the SmartBagger, an advanced foam-in-place packaging system. Designed for the operator with a focus on safety and ease-of-operation, the system uses a modem to connect to IntelliPack’s customer service.

October 31, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

Smart Packaging 2004 announced

Smart Packaging 2004 is being launched alongside Labelexpo Americas 2004, taking place next year on the 14-15 of September at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Small package checkweighers

Thompson Scale introduces two types of small-package checkweighers; drag chain for rigid containers, and belt conveyor for flexible and unstable products.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Intermediate checkweigher

Thompson Scale offers its 4693i Intermediate Checkweigher designed for institutional and packaged food manufacturing, specialty chemical, and corrosive or caustic product industries.

October 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Ergonomic vertical cartoner

SWF Companies’ Tisma Div.

October 31, 2003