Flexibles

Getting noticed is now packaging mission #1

In today's market, there are more serious packaging developments than the emergence of beverage containers with walls purposefully bent out of shape.

April 30, 1997

Industries: Page 847

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

National Starch and Chemical Co. (Bridgewater, NJ): Leonard J. Berlik, exec. vp, adhesives.

April 30, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Supplier news: International agreements

Osgood Industries Inc. (Oldsmar, FL) now represents Schaefer & Flottmann (Gevelsberg, Germany), a manufacturer of case/traypackers and palletizing equipment, and Fisher-Mathews (Banbury, England), a manufacturer of sleeve wrapping equipment for cups, bottles and trays.

April 30, 1997

Closures

Aseptic carton with screw cap juices sales

Dublin, Ireland-based Batchelors Ltd.'s share of the overall juice market in Ireland has risen approximately 10 percentage points since last October.

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Cans are really shaping up at Coke

Hot on the heels of its curvy Coke can (see Packaging World, March '97, p. 8), Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is shaking up the can industry again.

April 30, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Millennium Chemicals Inc.'s (Iselin, NJ) three main operating units have changed their names to link with the Millennium name. Quantum Chemical is now Millennium Petrochemicals Inc.

April 30, 1997

Flexibles

Add-on packaging revs up Coors' sales

First things first. Yes, it's a real package. No, it's not actually shipped that way. But when retailers hand-erect the faux carburetor valve covers and insert the tabs into die-cut slots on 24-count multipacks of the new "engine block" package for Coors Light, they've got a clever floor display that has jump-started sales of the brand in a recent promotion, says the Golden, CO, brewer.

April 30, 1997

Flexible packaging

Nestlé puts new faces on mix containers

A multi-material oval can in the U.K., a twin-pack of pouches in Switzerland, and a high-density polyethylene oval in the U.S. each deliver kid-oriented retail punch for Nestlé's powdered milk mixes.

March 31, 1997

Closures

Fiber drum liner

A new smooth-walled LDPE liner is manufactured specifically for use with 55-gal open-head fiber drums with a 21.5" dia. It's extrusion blown, FDA-approved LDPE with an average wall thickness of 15 mils.

March 31, 1997

Converting equipment

Condiment package

Kranson Industries (St. Louis, MO) has developed a new package especially for mustard and condiment packaging. The 9-oz PET container is recyclable, squeezable and shatterproof.

March 31, 1997

Dairy

Rim flattener

Paper Machinery's (Milwaukee, WI) PMC-125 rim flattener automatically flattens the rims on paper cups at speeds to 250/min. It offers a broad rim surface for increased area of membrane sealing.

March 31, 1997

Recycling

National bottle bill?

Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT) once again has introduced a bill requiring all beer, water and soft drink containers sold in the U.S. to carry a 10¢ deposit.

March 31, 1997

Additives, coatings & inks

Setting up shop (sidebar)

Invisible bar codes

March 31, 1997