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Beverage

Career selling collides with lack of organization

The June '99 Packaging Education Summit was so rich in content and ideas that all year could be spent examining proposals that might have merit. Last month, individuals in our packaging community were encouraged to look at ways they could improve education in their local communities.

August 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Y2K fever makes bulk foods sales sizzle

For the millions of people worried about the new millennium, timing is everything. The race is on to obtain bulk foods packaged with oxygen absorbers.

August 31, 1999

Beverage

Label 'Performs' for PowerBar

With its February introduction of Perform(TM), PowerBar Inc. believes it has an attention-grabbing package that will stand out from the competition. Clad in a striking label, the bottle is also uniquely tactile.

August 31, 1999

Containers

Machine vision affords economic inspection

Inexpensive machine vision frees up two workers, provides 100% on-line inspection for cosmetics producer.

August 31, 1999

Consumer packaged goods

WestPack celebrates 50 years of packaging innovation (sidebar)

Facts and figures

August 31, 1999

Flexibles

How European culture drives packaging (sidebar)

Enhancing package appeal

August 31, 1999

Flexibles

How European culture drives packaging

The Intl. Steel Packaging Congress 1999, held during interpack 99, illuminated ideas for European manufacturers at the turn of the century. Many points will resound also in the U.S.

August 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Debating the future of packaging machine control

PC vs PLC -- Six packaging machinery builders debate the pros and cons of controlling packaging machinery with either computers or programmable logic controllers.

August 31, 1999

Beverage

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Packaging Education Forum (Herndon, VA): James E. Scott, president.

August 31, 1999

Confection/Candy

How European culture drives packaging (sidebar)

Goelitz Candy automates

August 31, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Achievements

Brad Baan of Nestl/ USA became the 7ꯠth student to graduate from the University of Oriented Polypropylene, a program hosted by the Films Div. of Mobil Chemical Co.

August 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Wrapper automatically bales hay for export

For the first time in the hay industry, an export company uses an automatic stretch wrapper to prepare its hay bales for shipment overseas.

August 31, 1999