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Flexibles

This label's no lemon

"Everything about it is contemporary and forward-thinking, from the design of the package to the taste itself." That's what Bacardi Imports' director of marketing Alfredo Piedra has to say about Bacardi Lim*n, a 70-proof clear citrus rum that rolled out nationwide last month with more than $11 million in advertising and marketing support.

May 31, 1995

Dairy

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Ft. Dearborn Lithograph acquired Screaming Color Inc., and renamed it Virtualcolor (Itasca, IL).

May 31, 1995

Beverage

Test packages of MGD show alcohol content

Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co., a subsidiary of Philip Morris Cos., Inc., is testing new packaging for Miller Genuine Draft in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Albany, NY.

May 31, 1995

Beverage

Chesebrough continues its two-chamber approach

After seeing its unique Mentadent toothpaste soar to $90 million in sales, Chesebrough-Ponds, Green-wich, CT, is now marketing Mentadent dual-action mouthwash.

May 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

High-performance PEN is picking up steam

Amoco Chemical (Chicago, IL) used the Bev-Pak Americas '95 conference to identify two new bottles containing polyethylene naphthalate, or PEN (see PW, November '94, p.

May 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Tray denesting machine

The Model ITD-100 tray denesting machine from MGS Machine (Maple Grove, MN) automatically feeds trays up to 100/min out of a single magazine. The machine positively separates and pulls trays from the magazine using a combination of vacuum, pneumatic and mechanical principles.

April 30, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

TE vacuum closure bottle

Clinton Packaging (St. Louis, MO) has introduced a 190-mL hexagon bottle specifically designed for nuts and other products requiring a TE vacuum closure.

April 30, 1995

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

New BOPP films

Mirage HB-2 from Quantum (Streamwood, IL) is a new BOPP film with a 75% moisture barrier improvement over standard coextruded films, says the manufacturer.

April 30, 1995

Sustainability

Luster straightens out freshness problems

This haircare producer begins filling creme relaxer into nestable yogurt-style cups with freshness seals. The switch from traditional jars not only keeps the product fresh, it aids in product display as well.

April 30, 1995

Containers

Upscale dressings get Olympic treatment

When athletes sit down to eat at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, they may encounter Olympic 'gold' decorating on the sauce bottle they pour.

April 30, 1995

Sustainability

Transpack 95 packs a punch

Symposium on transport packaging focuses on the increasing sophistication of this aspect of packaging. Hazardous material shipments top a host of regulatory concerns.

April 30, 1995

Flexible packaging

Horizontal f/f/s

The Enflex horizontal pouch packaging machine from Key Intl. (Englishtown, NJ) automatically forms, fills and seals 3- or 4-sided pouches at speeds to 400 pouches/min.

April 30, 1995