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Controls & Machine Components

Communicating: Still a challenge in 21st-century technologies

We may have successfully overcome some of the minor inconveniences caused by the calendar rollover into 2000, but many of us still struggle with the many ways technology lets us communicate with each other.

December 31, 1999

Dairy

Pushing meals to market

Breakaway Foods™ is touting its new line of paperboard cylinder-packed IncrEdibles™ portable meals as “a revolutionary new way for consumers to enjoy their favorite foods, and the ultimate meal for people on the go.” IncrEdibles are microwaveable meals packaged in a printed, spiral-wound paperboard cylinder that becomes a “self-server,” according to the company, when consumers push up a plastic stick that’s inserted into the cylinder’s bottom.

December 31, 1999

Spirits/liquors

Robotics is hot

Third-quarter statistics show that the North American robotics industry is having its best year ever, says the Robotics Industries Assn. (Ann Arbor, MI).

December 31, 1999

Beverage

PEF now managed by PMMI

“To more efficiently raise and distribute funds for worthy university packaging programs,” is one reason cited by Jim Scott, president of the Packaging Education Forum, as the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute assumes management of PEF.

December 31, 1999

Closures

Fragrance is capped with a hard heart

The injection-molded red heart adorning the cap on Yves Saint Laurent’s new Vice Versa® eau de toilette bottle is as attention-grabbing as a closure component can be.

December 31, 1999

Beverage

Which vodka are you?

Vodka bottle decoration combines acid etching and ACL printing.

December 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

NesQuik and Gatorade shine at DrinkPak '99

Aseptic filling of Nestle U.S.A.'s NesQuik and Quaker Oats' Gatorade were two of the hot topics on the agenda at this December conference.

December 31, 1999

Consumer packaged goods

Book review: A Bible for personal performance

One of the latest soft-cover books published by the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) is titled Winning at Packaging from author Thomas L. Hudgin, a 29-year veteran of the packaged goods business.

December 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Competition 'tags' winning labels

This year’s Tag and Label Awards Competition honors pressure-sensitive labels used for new age drinks, wine and vitamins.

December 31, 1999

Consumer packaged goods

Coated paper shields motorcycles from corrosion

Hero Honda, an Indian motorcycle manufacturer, uses corrosion-inhibiting paper to protect metal parts during overseas shipments in steamy conditions.

December 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

Flexible materials shine

Mobil’s Golden Mummy and Pyramid awards programs honor pouches for disposable washcloths, Pop Tarts® and dinosaur snacks, as well as labels for vitamins, beverages and bug spray.

December 31, 1999

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Case packer provides Bacardi with rum on the run

A new case packer helps Bacardi Bottling package 10-count cartons of 50-mL rum miniatures into corrugated shippers.

December 31, 1999