Beverage

Miller debuts Skyy Blue 'malternative'

Skyy Blue, a 12-oz malt-based alcoholic beverage, debuts this month in a cobalt blue glass bottle similar to the one that helped make Skyy Vodka a success.

January 31, 2002

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Beverage

Football stadiums may lose PET flavor

The future for plastic beer bottles, at least those marketed through sports venues, suffered a major setback after two mid-December bottle-throwing incidents at NFL football games in Cleveland and in New Orleans.

January 31, 2002

Closures

'Tall blonde' bottle proves versatile

Southerners have a new beer option from Carolina Beer & Beverage, LLC, a regional craft brewer in Mooresville, NC: Tall blonde, a 16-oz longneck PET barrier bottle containing a light pilsner-style brew.

January 31, 2002

Flexibles

Shapely canisters treat cookies, dog food

Distinctive tapered canisters with rounded corners are creating differentiation for products in two separate categories, and in two different countries. In the United States, Dayton, OH-based Iams Company in November began to use the Linearpak® container for its new Eukanuba Healthy Extras Biscuits.

January 31, 2002

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Swanson spins out pop-top lid

Packaging World editors spotted an easy-open pop-top lid on Campbell’s Swanson-brand 14-oz beef and chicken broth cans in Chicago-area supermarkets.

January 31, 2002

Labels

Redesigned syrup container

Jefferson, TX-based Blackburn Syrup challenged TricorBraun’s (St. Louis, MO) design group to redesign its 24-oz clarified polypropylene syrup bottle. The extrusion-blown bottle is created from a six-cavity mold designed by TricorBraun.

January 31, 2002

Flexibles

Design: Baking kits display holiday spirit

Betty Crocker cooked up a timely product for the recent season: Holiday baking kits in four varieties. The kits from Minneapolis, MN-based General Mills are packaged in creative and colorful boxes with precision die cuts.

January 31, 2002

Flexibles

No cheesy packaging redesign

For three decades, Bongards’ Creameries has used the same logo, design, color, and tagline to decorate its packs of cheese, butter, and whey products. To help revitalize and freshen its look, Bongards’ contacted Compass Design (Minneapolis, MN).

January 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Web Plus: Online auction gathers equipment buyers

More than 70 online bidders spent last Halloween bidding for “treats” that included used and new automated bagging equipment, printers, and conveyors.

January 31, 2002

Consumer packaged goods

Industry watch: People

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI): Romeo Kreinberg, president, polyolefin and elastomers business group. —Wago (Germantown, WI): Bill Lydon, product mgr., electronic products.

January 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Rules & Regs: EU proposed mandatory allergen labeling

The European Commission has proposed to amend its food labeling rules to require mandatory labeling of allergens including cereals containing gluten and products based on cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, and products based on crustaceans, egg and egg products, fish and fish products, peanuts and peanut-based products, soya and soya-based products, milk and milk products (including lactose), tree nuts and nut products, sesame seeds and sesame seed products, and sulphite in concentrations of more than 10 mg/kg.

January 31, 2002

Cosmetics/Personal care

Rules & Regs: More CR packaging ordered

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is requiring child-resistant packaging for cosmetics and household products that contain 10% or more hydrocarbons and have a thin, oily consistency (see PW, Jan ’02, p.

January 31, 2002

Tamper-evident machinery

PipeLine: Is it really complacency?

Among some responses I received to the November column on packaging’s role in thwarting terrorism, one was from Robert Heilman, a packaging industry veteran who is now an independent inventor.

January 31, 2002