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Conveying & accumulation
Algood looks good with new sealers
Outdated induction sealing systems were driving production line workers nuts at this peanut butter manufacturer. New equipment reduces downtime, raises productivity.
June 30, 1998
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Cartoning
Small changes deliver big-time for Pharmacia & Upjohn
Pharmaceutical firm saves $650ꯠ/yr at its Kalamazoo, MI, packaging facility by implementing simple, yet cost-effective quick-changeover procedures on 30 packaging lines.
June 30, 1998
Containers
Streamlining handling headaches
Stainless-steel, reusable IBCs reduce drum handling/disposal problems for chemicals manufacturer Bush Boake Allen and a key customer.
June 30, 1998
Flexible packaging
Apple and tortilla packs break the foodservice routine
Fresh, sliced apples for school foodservice customers and tortillas for hotel and restaurant kitchens both come in packages that look like they were lifted from a retail setting.
June 30, 1998
Consumer packaged goods
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Exxon Chemical Co. (Houston, TX) announced plans to build a 605 million lb PP facility at its Baton Rouge, LA, polyolefin plant.
June 30, 1998
Consumer packaged goods
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Shell Chemical (Houston, TX) has opened a new PET production facility in Altamira, Mexico, increasing the company's global PET capacity by 17%.
June 30, 1998
Cosmetics/Personal care
Supplier news: Achievements
Avon Cosmetics awarded AGI (Chicago, IL) its "Supplier Excellence Award" on May 5. Revlon also named AGI its No. 1 supplier of paperboard packaging on April 23.
June 30, 1998
Bakery/Snack
Brands 'Sing' with consistency
Tying in with recent graphic updates of Michelina's® and new Michelina's Lean 'n Tasty(TM) brands, redesigned packaging for Michelina's Yu Sing® entrees and egg rolls began reaching store freezers this April.
June 30, 1998
Dairy
PMMI expects really big show
The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (Arlington, VA) says Pack Expo 98, November 8-12 in Chicago, will be a record setter. On April 30, exhibit space stood at 1걗꼬 net sq'.
June 30, 1998
Flexibles
Brewers tap holographic effects
Two brewers are adding holographic effects to their packaging to entice consumers at retail: Miller Brewing, Milwaukee, WI, has redesigned its Magnum malt liquor to include a label with a psuedo-holographic look, and Coors Brewing Co., Golden, CO, is launching a summer promotion for Coors Light that incorporates holographic packaging.
June 30, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
New label takes bottle from nostalgic to novel
Briar's U.S.A., the South Brunswick, NJ-based maker of old-fashioned, alternative sodas, has given its 12-oz glass bottle a contemporary makeover with a label redesign.
June 30, 1998
Flexibles
Fresh French soup takes shrink-film label
Boldly decorated and full bodied, shrink-film labels have captured beverage marketers in a big way. Now Soup Ideale, a soup manufacturer in Saint Laurent, Blangy, France, is using a shrink-film label for 1-L bottles of fresh, refrigerated soup in high-density polyethylene bottles.
June 30, 1998
Beverage
Leader of the year
Sealed Air Corp. of Herndon, VA, has been named the Packaging Education Forum's 1998 Packaging Leader of the Year. "Sealed Air's recent acquisition of Cryovac certainly brought the company to our attention," said PEF president Tom Hogue in announcing the award, "but the fact is that Sealed Air has a long history of technical innovation and customer support on a global basis which already qualifies the company as a leader in our field."
June 30, 1998
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