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Coding, Printing & Labeling

No dough for COO

A House agriculture subcommittee voted unanimously on June 17 to deny the U.S. Department of Agriculture funding to carry out the COO labeling program contained in last year’s farm bill.

July 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Codex Committee drops COO requirements

The Codex Alimentarius Commission Committee on Labeling decided to drop any further work on COO labeling requirements. Codex is an international agency that sets international food standards for commodities and guidelines for related processes.

July 31, 2003

Flexibles

PipeLine: Retort pouches: Has their time come?

In the last year or two, one of the warmest trends in flexible packaging has been the resurgence of the retort pouch for seafood products and also for pet foods.

July 31, 2003

Labels

Dial ratchets up liquid soap packaging

A multicompany partnership combined to create new lenticular, three-dimensional labels for clear hand soap bottles.

July 31, 2003

Containers

Snyder snacks on efficiency

New vf/f/s machines replace outdated equipment, adding speed while reducing costs for labor, replacement parts, and product giveaway.See in-plant video

July 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Back to Vegas for more gear

A Mexican manufacturer of cleaning products and a Utah marketer of bottled water both will return to Pack Expo Las Vegas this October.

July 31, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Estée Lauder's learners

An ambitious IoPP training program at Estée Lauder will see some 40 package developers become Certified Packaging Professionals before the year is out.

July 31, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Robot reaches jar line in Puerto Rico

Automated system saves labor costs at Alcan Packaging by conveying skin-care jars from four molding machines to a four-axis robot that deftly palletizes them.

July 31, 2003

Flexibles

Enhancing a brand with happy cows

Armed with a design concept statement that ‘happy cows give good milk,’ label converter Fort Dearborn Co. came up with labels that build brand equity for Oberweis Dairy.

July 31, 2003

Flexibles

Birds Eye Foods' art management pays dividends

This summer, Rochester, NY-based Birds Eye Foods launched several new sauced frozen vegetables (shown) in flexible bags with prepress work executed through an agreement with Vertis, an integrated marketing and advertising solutions firm.

July 31, 2003

Closures

ReaLemon gets distinctive shapes

Mott’s ReaLemon and ReaLime juices now don store shelves in green-stippled PET bottles molded with a distinctive lemon or lime shape in their neck to identify the product and brand.

July 31, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Nordenia hires Burke

Nordenia International has announced the appointment of William R. Burke as President and COO of Nordenia North America based in Jackson, MO.

July 31, 2003