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Kraft keeps recruiting pipeline flowing
Recruiting of new packaging people-high-quality, skilled personnel-is an increasingly difficult job these days, thanks to the low unemployment rates that have spurred this economy.
September 30, 1998
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Controls & Machine Components
Smart systems improve line efficiency
The more packagers know about their equipment, the better they can fine-tune it. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software has already proven a benefit to some packagers. Part one of a two-part analysis.
September 30, 1998
Beverage
Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more
Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Courses from IoPP.
September 30, 1998
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Dissimilar packs share honors
A powder medication inhaler and unusual bags for an ice melter and for pet food earn recognition at DuPont's 12th awards competition.
September 30, 1998
Flexibles
Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more
Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Technology breakthroughs on display.
September 30, 1998
Beverage
Machinery trainers need upgrading
Three major manufacturers emphasize how important training has become when they evaluate packaging equipment to buy. Too often, technician/trainers know machines, but not how to teach.
September 30, 1998
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
An open-and-shut case for reclosability
Pharmaceutical company Galderma Laboratories switches to a reclosable clamshell for its sample size of prescription topical medicines that's 35% cheaper than before.
September 30, 1998
Consumer packaged goods
How to find the best new hires in packaging (sidebar)
P&G casts a wider net
September 30, 1998
Prepared Foods
Home cooking contest
Stouffer's freezer icon, the red box line of entrees, is about to make some cook rather famous. Nestlé USA's Food Group, Solon, OH, has begun to advertise a "real home cooking" contest, whose grand prize winner will have his or her name and picture right on the package that contains the entree "inspired" by the winning recipe.
September 30, 1998
Labels
Shrink sleeve invigorates glass bottle
SmithKline Beecham's Lucozade, a popular energy drink sold in the U.K. and Ireland, recently received a dramatic packaging makeover intended to better convey the intense burst of flavor found inside the glass bottle.
September 30, 1998
Beverage
GPI names 12 Clear Choice winners
The Glass Packaging Institute (Washington, DC) named 12 Clear Choice Award Winners for 1998. New in '98 is the Glass Classics category, intended to highlight the competition's 10th anniversary, and the winner was Canandaigua Wine Co.
September 30, 1998
Flexibles
Kraft matches cottage cheese and fruit
A thermoformed dual-compartment polystyrene container is being used by Kraft Foods for its new Cottage Doubles(TM) product. Available in refrigerated sections of supermarkets and Wal-Mart stores since June, Doubles are sold nationwide in three 5.5-oz varieties.
September 30, 1998
Labeling
Meat regs questioned
Requiring all beef and lamb sold in the U.S. be labeled "U.S.", "Imported", or "Blended with Imported" as mandated in the 1998 Agriculture Appropriations bill pending in Congress would cost the government $60 million to enforce and could hurt U.S.
September 30, 1998
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