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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Lassonde innovates with Italian aseptic filler
Squared off in shape like its 2-L predecessor, Lassonde’s 420-mL PET bottle is aseptically filled at 400/min. It’s sold in a three-pack format that’s new to North America.
March 31, 2000
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Beverage
Engineers express growing dissatisfaction
In PW's latest salary survey, overall job satisfaction among engineers is dropping. Greater responsibilities with little added pay rankles, as do packaging-related budget and staff cuts.
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Soft graphics provide a hard sell
Since introducing its yo baby™ organic whole milk yogurt last September, Stonyfield Farm has enjoyed incredible sales success.
March 31, 2000
Closures
Cap ordering goes electronic
With the proliferation of Web sites devoted to purchasing complex packaging machinery, it seems only natural that buying closures online would be the next step.
March 31, 2000
Detergents/cleaners
Sebastian goes for clean and contemporary
When the Sebastian Collection reaches Sebastian Collective Salons next month, it will include four hair cleansers and three conditioners in 250-mL custom bottles from Captive Plastics (Piscataway, NJ).
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Prisma-powered drinks are aimed at adults
An acknowledged leader in aseptic filling of PET bottles, Lassonde Industries is among the first to install a Prisma aseptic packaging system from Tetra Pak. It is used for 236-mL packages.
March 31, 2000
Consumer packaged goods
Notable web sites
Materials Marketplaces B2Boxes.com is a corrugated marketplace/supplier locator site. Buyers can locate a local box manufacturer from an extensive database.
March 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Smurfit-Stone: Paper canister
Smurfit-Stone (Chicago, IL) has developed PaperCan™, which uses a paperboard body with an integrated easy-to-open-and-close paperboard lid. Made of laminated or barrier-coated paperboard that can be linear or blank-formed.
March 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Labels on crab
Some people in Maryland dont want consumers to think they are eating Maryland crab when theyre not. The Maryland legislature is considering a bill that would require country-of-origin labeling of any container of crab meat packed or processed outside the U.S.
March 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Milk questions soy labeling
The National Milk Producers Federation filed a complaint with the Food and Drug Administration in February seeking to prohibit soy beverages from being labeled as milk. Soy drinks are popping up in dairy cases in packaging that closely resembles milk cartons, and NMPF is trying to protect the distinct identity of its product.
March 31, 2000
Dairy
Frost-bitten graphics
As the official ice cream of the St. Paul, MN, Winter Carnival, Kemps Below Zero ice cream needed packaging that would exude chilliness. Compass Design (Minneapolis, MN) used frosty colors like shades of blue, gray and white throughout the packaging.
March 31, 2000
Sustainable Packaging
Achievements
Petroleum Packaging Council (Chicago, IL) will fund university scholarships to junior and senior packaging science students at Clemson University, Michigan State University and California Polytechnic State University.
March 31, 2000
Additives, coatings & inks
Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Chevron Chemical Co. (Houston, TX) and Phillips Chemical Co. (Houston, TX) have merged to form a new joint venture co.
March 31, 2000
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