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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexible packaging
Unit-dose packaging for the garden
Consumers crave convenience, so this lawn and garden products manufacturer serves it up: single-dose pouches of home insecticides.
October 31, 1997
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Sustainability
USDA/FDA wrap new demands around meat, poultry packaging
No longer will food companies accept self-certification from vendors. In fact, some new packaging has already been pulled from the market.
October 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Seagram salutes the end of tweaking
Seagram combines two bottling lines into one medium-speed line for a broad variety of spirits in glass bottles. Quick-change parts for cleaning, filling, capping and conveying equipment reduce downtime and labor costs.
October 31, 1997
Containers
Management pay a worthy goal
Managers in packaging and manufacturing departments are packing away the highest salaries among packaging professionals. Packaging World's exclusive survey shows they're also very satisfied with their jobs.
October 31, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Flip-top bottle
A 32-oz flip-top bottle is available from E.Z. Cap (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Specially designed for the micro-brewer and brew pubs for carry-out packaging, the bottle is said to be resealable, reusable and recyclable.
October 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Redhook Ale sinks East Coast roots
Pegged by some as one craft brewer best positioned to thrive and grow, Redhook boldly stakes its claim to eastern markets with its New Hampshire facility.
October 31, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
DuPont Packaging: High-performance ionomer
For use in blown and cast film applications, Surlyn® 2601 by DuPont (Wilmington, DE) is a high-performance version of ionomer workhorse grade Surlyn 1601.
October 31, 1997
Labeling
Redhook Ale sinks East Coast roots (sidebar)
Case handling and inspection
October 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Shaped 'can' rewrites packaging line rules
Several unorthodoxies on the filling line make it possible for this soft, squeezable, straight-walled polypropylene container to resist paneling after hot-filling. Also new is a first-of-its-kind on-line shrink label application in a bottling plant.
October 31, 1997
Flexibles
Paper-based lid
Ensolid, from Enso Intl. (Stamford, CT), is a paper-based, aluminum-free peelable lidding material prepared with a barrier coating that permits easy peeling without tearing.
October 31, 1997
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Britvic banks on being different
This UK beverage marketer was a pioneer in aseptically filled PET bottles. Other ambitious packages include matte-black coated glass for on-premise sales and black PET bottles in four sizes.
October 31, 1997
Consumer packaged goods
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
Chevron Chemical Co., U.S. Chemicals Div. (Houston, TX): J. R. Boots, business mgr.-HDPE.
October 31, 1997
Dairy
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
The Dairy Food and Packaging Group of Twinpak Inc. (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) has opened a rigid plastic packaging facility in Newport News, VA.
October 31, 1997
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