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Flexible packaging

Flexible pack zips to market

A flexible bag with a transverse zipper provides consumers with 'pour-and-store' convenience for Birds Eye-brand frozen chicken-based meals.

February 28, 1999

Sustainability

CMM brings converting into the 21st Century

Through a conference program and exhibits, CMM Intl. attendees will be updated on the latest in printing and converting technologies. Here's a preview of what to expect at Chicago's McCormick Place, April 12 to 14.

February 28, 1999

Sustainability

Plastic beer bottles: coating or multilayer?

From Carlton and United Breweries of Melbourne, Australia, Lite Ice beer joins Carlton Cold in a plastic bottle. (See Packaging World, December '98, p.

February 28, 1999

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Roberts PolyPro, Inc. (Charlotte, NC): Richard Shumate, sr. specialist for pkg. and converting solutions, Northeast; Craig Jasper, sr. specialist for pkg.

February 28, 1999

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Advanced Converting Technologies, Inc. (Oakdale, MN) has opened a new business unit that will focus on supplying paperboard and paperboard converting services.

February 28, 1999

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Advanced Converting Technologies, Inc. (Oakdale, MN): John Owens, executive vp.

February 28, 1999

Labels

Wine labels drink up awards

Recent competition honors labels used by wineries that realize the importance of presenting an appealing package to the consumer.

January 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Seneca sets its sights on plastic

Seneca Foods was among the first to convert from glass to hot-fillable plastic jars for applesauce. Now it fills both glass and plastic containers on essentially the same line.

January 31, 1999

Sustainability

Bottle-to-bottle PET recycling beckons in Germany

German mineral water and soft drink marketer Rosbacher installs a first-of-its-kind stretch blow molder and seeks to popularize closed-loop recycling of PET beverage containers.

January 31, 1999

Cartoning

Technology 'inches' forward at Oral-B

Oral-B concludes three-year project to develop new brush and creative preprinted package structure. Inks, thermoforming, materials handling, package closing systems all gain in new developments.

January 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Anheuser-Busch operators monitor 'mirrored' lines

Packaging equipment operators on Houston's two new bottling lines evolve from 'machine watchers' to 'process monitors.'

January 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

HDPE-bottled dairy beverages 'milk' 90-day shelf life

Canadian dairy products marketer Natrel is the first North American user of an ultra-high-temperature processing/aseptic filling line. The process permits Natrel to launch single-serve milks and shakes with a 90-day refrigerated shelf life.

January 31, 1999