Industries: Page 848

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Kraft's clamshell says 'Manchego'

Kraft Foods de Mexico's new Manchego-style cheese slices are merchandised in a clear hinged clamshell that's thermoformed from a custom resin. Value-added package results in brisk sales.

November 30, 1996

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Going with the flow

New centralized ink system keeps ink flowing for hassle-free ink-jet printing at Arcadia Farms. Ink supply can be changed on the fly.

November 30, 1996

Flexibles

Top graphics make milk pouch come alive

One of the pioneers in pouched milk packaging in the U.S. is now presenting its product in four-color flexo printing on white 4-mil linear low-density polyethylene that's bringing vivid color to the milk case.

November 30, 1996

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Dow Chemical (Midland, MI) is building a $12 million fabricated products business & research center in Midland, MI, scheduled for completion in the fall of 1997.

November 30, 1996

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Huntsman Corp. (Salt Lake City, UT) acquired Amoco Chemical Corp.'s (Chicago, IL) polystyrene business.

November 30, 1996

Recycling

Oregon nixes expanded bottle-deposit law

Oregon voters decisively rejected a ballet initiative that would have expanded the current bottle-deposit law, which applies only to beer and carbonated beverages, to include more than 800 products, including paperboard packaging containers.

November 30, 1996

Flexibles

Microwavable pouch pushes sandwich fixin's

In October, Madison, WI-based Oscar Mayer, a division of Kraft Foods, began test marketing stand-up pouches for five varieties of its HotWiches(TM) Sandwich Makers in Minneapolis, Chicago and Detroit.

November 30, 1996

Protective/transport packaging

Biofoam: Snacks to loose fill

A major feature article in Inc. magazine could jump-start a small Phoenix, AZ, packaging supplier. The October issue of Inc. included a story on Biofoam, the company and product name for starch-based loose-fill.

November 30, 1996

Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

U.S. Coexcell (Maumee, OH) opened a plastic drum warehouse in Auburndale, FL, to serve that state's citrus processors.

November 30, 1996

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Quantum Chemical (Cincinnati, OH) is now a subsidiary of newly formed Millennium Chemicals (Iselin, NJ), a holding company spun off of Hanson North America (Woodbridge, NJ).

November 30, 1996

Beverage

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Mead Corp. (Dayton, OH) will acquire a Rumford, ME, coated paper mill from Boise Cascade for approximately $650 million.

November 30, 1996

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Can printing brings the rain forest to life

"No one has taken wet-on-wet printing this far." That's how Mary Ellen Reis, director of packaging at Mistic Brands, White Plains, NY, describes the award-winning five-color print job on her company's line of Rain Forest nectars.

November 30, 1996