Contract Packaging

Consumers power packaging

An exclusive Packworld.com survey shows most packagers test packaging with consumers, though the majority of packagers do so with modest investments.

February 28, 2002

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Controls & Machine Components

Opening up access to production data

Italian label converter enjoys easier access to production data and e-mail notification of production events via standard Web software.

February 28, 2002

Recycling

Consumers drive new 12-pack shape

Last summer, one Coca-Cola canner set out to change the shape of 12-pack paperboard carriers, and Coke Consolidated is now reaping the rewards.

February 28, 2002

Flexibles

FPA Achievement Award suppliers

Alpha listing of suppliers mentioned in March '02 coverage of Flexible Packaging Assn.'s 2001 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards:

February 28, 2002

Bakery/Snack

Versatility keys European oven board growth

Jowa, A.G., the bakery arm of Swiss supermarket chain Migros, has become one of the latest food companies to convert packaging from aluminum foil containers to paperboard trays coated with polyester for its frozen Quiche Lorraine products.

January 31, 2002

Drinks, nonalcoholic

Efficient robotic cells spee

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Three turnkey robotic packing cells developed by Motoman Robotics (UK), of Banbury, have been supplied to the Wrexham plant of Calypso Soft Drinks to boost efficiency. Click logo for full article.

January 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

Making your packaging company a cult brand

What do Jack Daniels Whiskey and packaging have in common? Both are price-sensitive commodities with distinctive characteristics operating in highly competitive markets. But, how many packaging companies command such customer devotion that price is not a major consideration?

January 31, 2002

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

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