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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Controls & Machine Components
End-users seek motion standards
Part two of our report covering a ground-breaking meeting last October where engineers from Anheuser-Busch, General Mills, Hershey Foods, Nabisco and Procter & Gamble spoke out about their packaging controls needs.
November 30, 1999
Industries: Page 749
Sustainability
Dow Corning sings praises of palletizer/stretch wrapper combo
Combo systems at the end of three silicone sealant cartridge packaging lines save space, money and materials at the company's Elizabethtown, KY, facility.
November 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
HMR package serves dual markets
Southern BBQ restaurant chain and mail-order business employs the same dual-ovenable CPET tray and attractive paperboard carton to introduce frozen dinners sold both in hospitals and grocery stores.
November 30, 1999
Flexible packaging
Foodservice packs at twice the speed
Canadian coffee marketer sees growth in coffee filter-packs used by guests in hotel rooms. A new flow wrapper lets the firm aggressively pursue this foodservice market niche.
November 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Pizza Hut serves 'Wrappies' with breakfast sandwiches
To better contain its breakfast sandwiches and make them easier to eat, Pizza Hut Express employs an unusual 'Wrappie.'
November 30, 1999
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Printer furnishes improved productivity
A furniture hardware distributor uses a thermal-transfer printer for bar codes, graphics and part numbers on its bagged hardware to cut costs and increase production.
November 30, 1999
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Service opportunities abound in foodservice
But it's also evident even in more expensive establishments. My wife and I have been disappointed for a wide variety of reasons, often because the restaurant didn't have the meal that we ordered from the menu.
November 30, 1999
Beverage
Supplier news: Achievements
Creative Forming, Inc. has earned a 1999 Consumer Packaging Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers for its design of 3M's Scotch Pop-up Tape for Kids container.
November 30, 1999
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
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