Detergents/cleaners

Chemical dispensing system

RD Industries (Omaha, NE) offers the automatic self-venting chemical dispensing system designed for product containers. Closed loop configuration features anti-reversing dry break valve that protects end user from toxic spills.

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Beverage

Nalbach Engineering announces several management changes

After 40 years of service with Nalbach Engineering Co. (Countryside, IL), Graeme Warner, vp sales and marketing, has retired. Graeme first joined Nalbach in November of 1962 and has held various positions within the Engineering, Sales and Marketing departments.

December 31, 2002

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'Shot' fires schnapps sales in UK

A unique, patented 30-mL “pot” (in olde English) made of Eastar® copolymer from Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, TN), has helped create a successful product launch for SideKick™ schnapps from H.P. Bulmer, Hereford, England.

December 31, 2002

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Luciano Packaging: Vf/f/s machine

Luciano Packaging Technologies introduces its V-Series flat-bottom bag vf/f/s systems, including a machine designed for dependable high-speed operation called the cantilevered V-Series.

December 31, 2002

Beverage

Kraft, PEF name scholarship recipients

Kraft Foods and the Packaging Education Forum (PEF) announced that Sara Damon of the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and Emma Hollander of the Rochester Institute of Technology, were named the first recipients of the Scott-Hogue Scholarship Award.

December 31, 2002

Flexibles

Skin-packing for fish

Better appearance and increased throughput are the chief benefits gained by Golden Valley, MN-based Morey’s Seafood since the installation of an R270 vacuum skin packaging system from Multivac (Kansas City, MO).

December 31, 2002

Cosmetics/Personal care

Wrapping up soap dispensing innovation

Palm Beach, FL-based Designer Dispensers recently released the “Kitchen Soap & Sponge Caddy,” an unusual product that includes a container into which a consumer pours up to 12 oz of liquid soap.

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A pasteurizable plastic beer bottle

Canada’s Brick Brewery has launched a 16-oz plastic beer bottle that the Waterloo, Ontario, brewer claims is the first single-serve plastic beer bottle in Canada.

December 31, 2002

Beverage

Heineken rolls out 24-oz 'keg' can

Heineken USA, White Plains, NY, recently introduced its Heineken lager beer in the United States in a 24-oz can that resembles a keg.

December 31, 2002

Flexibles

Sauce pouches fly into cartons

“It started out as a limited promotion, but now we see it as a tremendous opportunity to expand sampling to our other sauces.”

December 31, 2002

Soups/Condiments/Sauces/Spices/Dips/Dressings

Flavorful design

Dwight Oglesby needed a package design that would grab as much attention as the flavor of his grandfather’s West Texas barbecue sauce.

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Creating a competitive design

When Northfield, MN-based Malt-O-Meal Co. decided to position its line of ready-to-eat value cereals as a direct competitor of national boxed brands, they enlisted Mackey Szar (Minneapolis, MN) to redesign the cereal line’s packaging to reflect this new strategy.

December 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA voluntary allergen-labeling guidelines

The U.S. Department of Agricultures’s Food Safety and Information Service will consider any nonmisleading symbols, statements, or logos that meat and poultry packages might want to use to inform consumers of the presence of potential food allergens in meat, poultry, and eggs.

December 31, 2002