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Flexible packaging

Amboy breaks new ground in smaller aseptic pouches (sidebar)

Low-acid pre-eminence

May 31, 2000

Flexible packaging

Amboy breaks new ground in smaller aseptic pouches

F/f/s machine enlarges Amboy Specialty Foods’ reach to pouches as small as 3 oz. Products represent the most viscous application of the supplier’s technology in the world.

May 31, 2000

Flexibles

What's new at NPE 2000

Packaging World Interactive previews some of the new packaging-related machinery and components used to produce both rigid and flexible plastic packaging materials that will be on display June 19 to 23 at the National Plastics Exposition.

May 10, 2000

Converting equipment

A measure of success

Hydro Agri North America gains a foothold in the holding-tank treatment market, thanks to a redesigned package that includes built-in product measurement.

April 30, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeled barrel can a natural fit for Killian's

Killian’s® Pub Barrel™ from Coors/Unibev, Golden, CO, brings label graphics to domestic beer cans.

April 30, 2000

Closures

Heinz 'caps' squeeze ketchup

Complex new cap/liner on plastic bottles offers new consumer features, most prominently by ending the watery discharge caused by product settling.

April 30, 2000

Sustainable Packaging

Production ahead for corn-derived polymer

Cargill Dow breaks ground on its first world-scale NatureWorks PLA polyactide plant.

April 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Bostik Inc: Bostik Inc: Coating resin

Bostik (Middleton, MA) has introduced Vitel® 2250, a high-molecular weight, linear saturated copolyester resin that can be used as a primer, barrier coating, overlacquer or heat-seal modifier.

April 30, 2000

Consumer packaged goods

Coke's got game

During the last football season, paperboard packaging for 12-packs of Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA, captured the raw energy of the NFL. SBG Enterprise’s (San Francisco, CA) design combines the requisite “Coca-Cola red” with illustrations of NFL players in the heat of the game.

April 30, 2000

Household/Automotive

A high-performance bottle

Ease of consumer use was a major goal behind the in-house packaging design for premium fuel treatments from automotive products manufac-turer Berryman Products, Arlington, TX.

April 30, 2000

Dairy

Visual impact

Little Rock, AR-based TCBY’s ½-gal frozen yogurt packaging got a complete makeover from Fisher Design (Cincinnati, OH). The previous package featured illustrations of the flavor’s ingredients paired with light latticework set against a white background.

April 30, 2000

Flexibles

International agreements

Rexam PLC (London, England) has agreed to acquire American National Can Group Inc. (Chicago, IL) for $985 million, which would make the co. the largest supplier of cans to Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

April 30, 2000