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Closures

Hormel's pack makes bacon ready-to-eat

For the first time, fully precooked bacon strips are now available virtually anywhere in the supermarket. A new thermoformed MAP flexible package allows Hormel Foods, Austin, MN, to pack oxygen-sensitive cooked bacon slices without refrigeration for up to four months.

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Flexibles

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Pierce & Stevens Corp., a subsidiary of Sovereign Specialty Chemicals, Inc. (Chicago, IL) has agreed to purchase the flexible packaging coatings business from Valspar Corp.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Beef labeling

Congress continues to ponder requiring country-of-origin labels on some imported foods, including beef and lamb. Package labels would indicate the origin of the meat source and the percentages of both domestic and imported meat when they are blended, as in ground beef.

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Flexible packaging

Standing up to the competition

By early this summer, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler expects to complete its nationwide rollout of Cheez-It® baked snack mixes in three varieties.

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Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

CP Louisiana, Inc. (New Orleans, LA), General Steel Drum Corp. (Charlotte, NC), Nesco Container Corp. (Fenton, MO), North Coast Container Corp.

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Dairy

Kellogg, IP team up in school

A new school milk program from Kellogg Co. and International Paper (Memphis, TN) features 8-oz milk cartons displaying popular Kellogg characters on the side panels.

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Cartoning

Glaxo 'Wellcomes' quick-change software

As Glaxo Wellcome's Zebulon, NC, facility packs a wider variety of pharmaceuticals, quick-changeover equipment becomes top priority. Software developed in-house helps the plant reduce changeover times on its solid-dose packaging lines.

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Detergents/cleaners

Supplier news: Achievements

David A. Tolley, president of Graphic Packaging Corp.'s (Golden, CO) specialty folding carton div., has been named chairman of the Packaging Committee for the Soap & Detergent Assn.

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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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