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.

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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

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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

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Packaging potatoes for consumer convenience

Add sliced potatoes to the growing list of branded, prepared produce packaged in flexible films for refrigerated display in the supermarket. Launched in the first week of January were four varieties of Fresh From The Start® potatoes from 50/50 partners Maine Packing of Caribou, ME, and Fresh From The Start LLC of Riverhead, NY.

February 28, 1998