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Flexibles
Technical achievements shine among FPA winners
A foil-based barrier bag for industrial applications, a multilayer structure for hermetic sealing of silicone gasket strips, and a coextruded sealant film all snare FPA awards.
February 28, 1998
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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Widemouth cups will expand beverage packaging options
We've been looking at the newest generation of Ensure® nutritional supplement packaging and thinking that thermoformed or injection-molded cupsin some advanced stage of developmentcould be beer and carbonated beverage containers (CSDs) in the future.
February 28, 1998
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Woodland Poly casts for western film business
Cast and blown film-making equipment, using metallocene resins, enable Woodland Poly to produce rugged stretch-wrap film in thin gauges for its customers in the west.
February 28, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Foodservice bag displays retail points
Basic American Foods launches a first-of-its-kind bag for dehydrated potatoes sold to foodservice markets. Pointillistic graphics attract customers while the bag reduces secondary packaging.
February 28, 1998
Containers
Bass is bullish on beer in plastic (sidebar)
Dando at Nova-Pack '98
February 28, 1998
Flexible packaging
Agricultural winners at FPA
Two innovative flexible packages merit an 'A' for Agricultural.
February 28, 1998
Beverage
Shaped cans south of the border
"I have seen shaped cans from Europe and I have never seen anything like this." That's what Lawrence Boro, marketing manager for privately held Grupo Jumex, Xalostoc, near Mexico City, Mexico, says about the company's newest shaped steel three-piece can.
February 28, 1998
Contract Packaging
Readers write back
Recent Packaging World stories-on outsourcing, reader salaries, increased USDA/FDA scrutiny, and Arizona Beverages' uniquely shaped 'can'-spur readers to comment.
February 28, 1998
Flexibles
Cudahy takes bacon out of the fridge
Patrick Cudahy Inc. of Cudahy, WI, is probably the first to package precooked sliced bacon for display outside of the refrigerated deli case. "Shelf-stable packaging opens up more opportunities," says Cudahy marketer Jason Kapella.
February 28, 1998
Consumer packaged goods
Supplier news: International agreements
National Starch and Chemical Co. (Bridgewater, NJ) has agreed to acquire the industrial adhesives business of Polymer Coating Adhesives (St. Mary's, New South Wales, Australia).
February 28, 1998
Consumer packaged goods
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
National Starch & Chemical Co. (Bridgewater, NJ): Walter F. Schlauch, COO.
February 28, 1998
Consumer packaged goods
Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Accu-Sort Systems (Telford, PA) and Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, TN) have entered into a worldwide licensing agreement whereby Accu-Sort will manufacture and market scanners for use with Eastman's NIRF inks.
February 28, 1998
Converting equipment
Twister takes a whole new shape
For its Twister brand juice beverage, Tropicana North America has launched a 1.75-L (59.3-oz) heat-set bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate that the Bradenton, FL, firm describes as "the first heat-set, hot-filled (180°+) rectangular PET bottle" for a juice beverage in the U.S.
February 28, 1998
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