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Dairy

Supplier news: International agreements

Dairy Farmers of America (Kansas City, MO) and Stork Food & Dairy Systems, Inc. (Gainesville, GA) have formed Asep-Tech USA LLC, a joint venture created to develop processing and packaging technology for all types of products and containers in plastic and other materials.

November 30, 1999

Labels

Specialty drinks get old look

As the new year begins, Hansen's Beverage Co. looks to the past with its new line of "signature" sodas. They're packaged in brown glass bottles with crown closures and full-body shrink labels that evoke a feeling of simpler times.

November 30, 1999

Beverage

Label depicts the 21st century

For the 21st year in a row, Kenwood Vineyards, owned by Korbel Champagne Cellars, has released a Cabernet Sauvignon Artist Series wine. The 1995 vintage wine is decorated with a label created by printmaker and painter Karl Kasten.

November 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wine labeling being reviewed

In February 1999, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms granted authority to wine makers to include a mention that moderate consumption of wine is associated with a lower risk of heart disease for some people.

November 30, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Labeler minimizes downtime at bundler

Dairy Crest of Gloucestershire, England, is the first to install a Harland Zeta thermal-print-and-apply labeler from Harland Machine Systems (Manchester, England).

November 30, 1999

Tamper-evident machinery

Smooth sealing of fruit smoothie base

When J.R. Wood Co. landed a contract to fill a fruit smoothie concentrate for a large convenience-store chain, management decided the best way to assure seal integrity and tamper evidence was through an induction-sealed foil membrane.

November 30, 1999

Beverage

PEF Board votes for Miyares, PMMI

At its fall Board of Directors meeting, the packaging Education Forum elected Ben Miyares as Secretary/Executive Director, effective Jan. 1, 2000, replacing William C.

November 30, 1999

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Potato chip marketer rolls out a zipper

When it comes to packages with reclosable zippers, potato chip makers have not been able to get past test-market status (see Packaging World, Feb.

November 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Quality Dairy 'pops' with integral straw

By next spring, Quality Dairy Co. expects to be the first company to sell beverages in bottles equipped with an integral flexible straw that pops up and partially out of the bottle when its closure is removed.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Neocork is winning converts in Napa Valley

Among the first to use a newly developed synthetic wine cork called Neocork(TM) was Lane Tanner winery of Napa, CA. Lane Tanner, owner of the 14-year-old winery, says that her switch from organic to synthetic corks has greatly reduced the number of bottles in which wine has been spoiled by oxygen ingress.

November 30, 1999

Beverage

Anheuser-Busch invests in new glass plant

When a company needs glass bottles, and the bottle-making plants aren't near the demand, sometimes the company has to put its money where its needs are.

November 30, 1999

Beverage

Beverage containers to exceed 217 billion in 2003

According to a recent study from The Freedonia Group (Cleveland, OH), demand for beverage containers is projected to advance at an annual pace of 2.2% through 2003, reaching 217 billion units.

November 30, 1999