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

Value-added packaging goes to sea

Seattle fish processor vacuum packs salmon right on board its two ships for sale to Japanese markets. Now there's no need to thaw and refreeze, so quality is improved.

February 28, 1997

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Tamper-evident machinery

Sara Lee puts its brand on take-home foods

Look out Boston Market!

February 28, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ciba slashes costs with flexible pack

Ciba Crop Protection, Greensboro, NC, reduced its packaging costs by more than half after switching to a custom 25-lb premade bag for its granular ant bait product used by farmers.

February 28, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

National Starch and Chemical Co. (Bridgewater, NJ): Traci Jensen, mktg. mgr., food and consumer packaging.

February 28, 1997

Beverage

Supplier news: International agreements

Kollmorgen Instruments Corp.'s (Waltham, MA) Macbeth Div. merged with the Gretag Color Control Systems Div. of Gretag AG (Regensdorf, Switzerland).

February 28, 1997

Additives, coatings & inks

AquaPenn's 8-oz PET breaks the size barrier

AquaPenn Spring Water Co. has what it believes is the smallest polyethylene terephthalate bottle for a nonalcoholic beverage in the country. Holding just 8 oz of spring water, the Quick Quench bottle was launched in mid-January, targeted primarily at foodservice institutions.

February 28, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Quantum Chemical Corp. (Cincinnati, OH): Susan M. Ganster, mktg. mgr., injection molding.

February 28, 1997

Beverage

O'Doul's calls phone card label a success

A Christmas holiday promotion involving a special telephone card "label" affixed to the inside of 12-packs of O'Doul's non-alcoholic beer has been called a success by Anheuser-Busch.

February 28, 1997

Flexibles

Graphics suit Santa's Best coffee bag

In a two-month period ending in mid-January, Seattle's Best Coffee produced about 100ꯠ units of Santa's Best Blend(TM) 8-oz whole bean coffee.

February 28, 1997

Additives, coatings & inks

Dual-pump pack minimizes waste

Introduced in Mexico last September, Colgate's dual-pumping toothpaste dispenser is unique for several reasons, says Bob Mack, associate director of technology at Colgate Palmolive's Global Packaging Group.

February 28, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Exxon Chemical Co. (Houston, TX) and Union Carbide Corp. (Danbury, CT) will launch a PE technology, licensing, and metallocene catalyst supply company located in Houston, TX.

February 28, 1997

Protective/transport packaging

Void-fill maker

The CorruGuard(TM) Former is an innovative machine from Appleton Mfg. Div. (Neenah, WI) that converts waste corrugated material into patented forms of void-fill.

January 31, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Pressure-sensitive adhesives

The latest technologies in waterborne, hot melt and solvent-type p-s adhesives for labels, graphics, medical and industrial applications are described in a brochure from National Starch and Chemical (Bridgewater, NJ).

January 31, 1997