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Controls & Machine Components

Simco: Product catalog

Simco Industrial Static Control releases its 2003 full-color catalog, featuring a complete line of static control, web, and sheet cleaning and electrostatic charging products.

June 30, 2003

Closures

Tube Council winner

The Ted Klein Tube of the Year in the 2002 Tubes of the Year Competition sponsored by The Tube Council is a 7-oz tube containing Rapture Golden Pearl Shower Cream. The product is marketed by Victoria’s Secret, a division of Intimate Brands, Inc., Columbus, OH.

June 30, 2003

Flexibles

ALTERNATIVE POUCH WAVE?

Stick packs, four-corner seal, flat-bottom, and other emerging and pre-commercial pouches were identified as the “next wave in flexibles” according to a multi-client study authored by Allied Development Corp.

June 30, 2003

Labels

Almaden shapes an elegant label

Almaden’s wines packed in glass bottles are displaying a facelift with new p-s labels from Collotype Labels. Concord, CA-based Almaden is beginning to ship bottles with the new teardrop label shape, according to Diana Pawlik, Almaden brand manager.

June 30, 2003

Bakery/Snack

Ukrainians study U.S. packaging

While in Chicago recently for the All Candy Expo, 18 packaging professionals from confectionery, cookie, and cake manufacturing firms in Ukraine spent two days with the Institute of Packaging Professionals learning more about packaging in the United States.

June 30, 2003

Flexibles

Microwave popcorn takes a stand

About a year ago, Solon, OH-based ASAP Food Products introduced what it believes is the first microwave popcorn in a stand-up pouch.

June 30, 2003

Sustainability

MSU, Clemson offer seminars

Michigan State University and Clemson University announce packaging seminars scheduled for this autumn...

June 30, 2003

Flexibles

Q&A: The Supermarket Guru on packaging

Author of five books and the Food Trends Correspondent for NBC’s TODAY Show, Phil Lempert heads SupermarketGuru.com and is editor of the Lempert Report. He shares his views of packaging’s impact on supermarkets—and vice versa.

June 30, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Modernizing redesign

Alberto Culver redesigned the packaging for its St. Ives brand of lotion, changing out of the old opaque white bottles and into a sleeker bottle design.

June 30, 2003

Bakery/Snack

Sophisticated design

Michael Osborne Design has created new packaging for Williams-Sonoma’s line of outdoor barbecue products, including packaging for grilling tools, mesquite grilling chips, suede aprons and mitts, and more.

June 30, 2003

Beverage

Meaty redesign

Carl Buddig & Co. recently redesigned the packaging for its thin-sliced precooked meats in both single-serve and one-lb sizes. Buddig’s change was prompted by movement in the market by big-name meat companies that were redesigning their packaging to better compete on store shelves.

June 30, 2003

Bakery/Snack

Lead warnings on paint

In what is being hailed as a possible model for government/industry negotiations addressing public issues, the U.S. paint industry and 46 state attorneys general and five other jurisdictions reached agreement on a plan to reduce lead poisoning caused by old paint.

June 30, 2003