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Aluminum bottle wows Cannex
At Cannex 2000 in Brisbane, Australia, in May, The Canmaker magazine announced the results of its Cans of the Year 2000 competition. The overall winner was the “bottle can,” a reclosable two-piece aluminum bottle developed by Daiwa Can (Tokyo, Japan).
July 31, 2000
Industries: Page 730
Dairy
Supplier Web sites: The pain and the promise
One of the most astonishing findings of a survey we conducted earlier this year is that packaging buyers are still slogging through general Web search engines to source packaging suppliers.
July 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Radius brushes away excess costs
Shrink sleeve bundling system enables Radius to unitize plastic cases of its unusual toothbrushes in film sleeves rather than the more costly folding cartons it had used.
July 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Capsule-counting tech comes to NAI
New equipment at this California contract packager includes a tablet/capsule line with the latest in tablet-counting technology. On-line thermal-transfer coding shines, too.
July 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
HDPE totes fit Pep Boys
Reusable HDPE totes in two heights with one footprint improve cube efficiency on pallets and lower damage at a Pep Boys distribution center.
July 31, 2000
Containers
Mission impossible?
Congress is trying to forge an agreement between branded product marketers and product diverting companies for packaging codes that help in product recalls.
July 31, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Government funds casing upgrade at Boyd Coffee (sidebar)
Ergonomics: Oregon’s hands-on, proactive approach
July 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Government funds casing upgrade at Boyd Coffee
With R&D funding from Oregon’s OSHA, Boyd Coffee develops a custom case packer that addresses repetitive motion injuries attributable to manual packing. Machine also reduces giveaway.
July 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Portland nixes reshippers
Portland Brewing cuts costs and gains flexibility by moving away from reshippers and into bulk glass. It now forms its own six-pack carriers and corrugated shippers.
July 31, 2000
Flexibles
Stonyfield 'squeezes' yogurt
This month, Stonyfield Farm launches 2-oz tubes of Yo Squeeze™, an all-natural, portable lowfat yogurt, to compete with General Mills’ highly successful Go-Gurt™ yogurt.
June 30, 2000
Cartoning
Suiza dairy 'milks' squishy bottle
Country Fresh, a Suiza Foods dairy, debuts single-serve Milk-It! in injection blow-molded bottles designed for children. The bottles will also be used for other milks, and possibly for juice and water.
June 30, 2000
Beverage
Cocktails reposition into ergonomic bottles
In mid-June, United Distillers & Vintners-Northeast relaunched T.G.I. Friday's™ cocktails in PET and glass bottles designed with an eye toward the ladies.
June 30, 2000
Flexibles
'Selling' machine safety
Improving the safety of packaging equipment-and meeting the ANSI B155.1 standard-was the topic of a PMMI seminar July 11-12. 3M's John Hunt urged machine builders to use safety as a selling point.
June 30, 2000
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