Industries: Page 766

Bakery/Snack

Supplier news: Achievements

Mott's (Stamford, CT) won the American Marketing Assn.'s Gold Edison Award for its single-serve Fruitsations® blended fruit snacks.

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Converting equipment

More than just a pretty package

A line of high-density polyethylene bottles combines form and function to clinch NACD's Best of Show award. Other winners also fit the theme of beauty and functionality.

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Labels

Rubber hits the road at FDA

Agency tells companies with rubber in products and packaging to get rid of the latex or use warning labels.

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Dairy

Package designs shine among Mobius winners

The 28th-annual Mobius Awards were handed out late last year. The package design category highlighted some of the year's most exciting and successful packages.

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Closures

Glass decoration clearly wins

Jelly jars' decoration brings movie to life, wins award and even becomes a collector's item.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Source tags provide measured security improvements

Stanley Tools houses a security label in a patented PVC capsule that clips onto the back of its tape rule package.

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Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

AlliedSignal Plastics (Morristown, NJ): Tim Fitzgerald, mgr., global and strategic accounts; Tom Salmon, business leader.

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Sustainability

Beta testing will determine U.S. plastic beer bottle spec(s)

Some time after a computer software code is written, but before it is commercially launched, it undergoes a period of beta testing. During this period, select users try the program out, spot bugs in it, figure out function shortcuts, criticize the program's performance and let the developer know what they like and don't like about the software.

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Containers

Fomo tracks many happy returns

A tracking system better controls Fomo Products' fleet of returnable containers holding foam insulation chemicals. That helps the company save up to $60ꯠ/yr.

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Conveying & accumulation

Fire gives snack baker a clean slate

Fire claimed Pretzels, Inc.'s Indiana headquarters plant on Christmas Eve '97. By the following August, a new plant with a streamlined packaging room had risen from the ashes.

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Sustainability

More than just a pretty package (sidebar)

Additional winners include:

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Conveying & accumulation

Robotic tray loaders speed cookie loading

A state-of-the-art line at Voortman Cookies in Canada uses 10 vision-guided robots to simultaneously pack cookies into five trays at 1걄 cookies/min. Saves C$450ꯠ/yr in labor costs and provides 10-minute tool-less changeover.

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