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Sustainability

Plastic beer bottles: coating or multilayer?

From Carlton and United Breweries of Melbourne, Australia, Lite Ice beer joins Carlton Cold in a plastic bottle. (See Packaging World, December '98, p.

February 28, 1999

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Ashland Chemical (Dublin, OH): Michael L. Rademacher, vp, gen. mgr.; Ronald G. Babinsky, mgr., business operations, Asia-Pacific region and Latin America.

February 28, 1999

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Milliken Chemical (Spartanburg, SC) has established a new business and technology facility in Singapore. The new location, known as Milliken Asia Pte.

February 28, 1999

Beverage

Supplier news: International agreements

Brio Beverages Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) has entered into a multi-year agreement with The Quaker Oats Co. of Canada Ltd. (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) for the packaging of Gatorade(TM) sports drink at Brio's Vancouver plant.

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Controls & Machine Components

PIAB USA Inc: PIAB USA Inc: Vacuum handbook

PIAB (Rockland, MA) offers a 60-page reference guide to industrial vacuums. The 5" x 7" handbook includes a section on designing efficient vacuum systems, as well as descriptions of products used in vacuum applications, a guide to industry terminology and a glossary.

January 31, 1999

Dairy

Autoprod Inc: Filling/closing system

The Fast-Pack filling/closing system from Autoprod (Clearwater, FL) is a double-indexing, 12-lane machine with microprocessor-controlled filling stations, SpeedLoader(TM) quick-change foil lid magazines and servo-driven heat-seal stations.

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Labels

Wine labels drink up awards

Recent competition honors labels used by wineries that realize the importance of presenting an appealing package to the consumer.

January 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Seneca sets its sights on plastic

Seneca Foods was among the first to convert from glass to hot-fillable plastic jars for applesauce. Now it fills both glass and plastic containers on essentially the same line.

January 31, 1999

Sustainability

Bottle-to-bottle PET recycling beckons in Germany

German mineral water and soft drink marketer Rosbacher installs a first-of-its-kind stretch blow molder and seeks to popularize closed-loop recycling of PET beverage containers.

January 31, 1999

Cartoning

Technology 'inches' forward at Oral-B

Oral-B concludes three-year project to develop new brush and creative preprinted package structure. Inks, thermoforming, materials handling, package closing systems all gain in new developments.

January 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Anheuser-Busch operators monitor 'mirrored' lines

Packaging equipment operators on Houston's two new bottling lines evolve from 'machine watchers' to 'process monitors.'

January 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

HDPE-bottled dairy beverages 'milk' 90-day shelf life

Canadian dairy products marketer Natrel is the first North American user of an ultra-high-temperature processing/aseptic filling line. The process permits Natrel to launch single-serve milks and shakes with a 90-day refrigerated shelf life.

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