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.

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Colgate-Palmolive clarifies its polypropylene position (sidebar)

Colgate-Palmolive moves to a three-resin strategy

January 31, 1999

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Colgate-Palmolive clarifies its polypropylene position

A 1-L clarified polypropylene bottle for Ajax cleaner in Brazil uses 10% less plastic than a version for Europe while doubling its top-load strength.

January 31, 1999

Flexibles

Packaging's synergistic era will push professionals in new century (whenever it arrives)

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January 31, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Packaging Products Corp. (Mission, KS) has announced the pending acquistions of Flex-Pak, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) and Atlanta Film Converting Co.

January 31, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Fort Dearborn Co.'s (Elk Grove, IL) Flexible Packaging Div. plans to double the size of its printing facility to 56ꯠ sq'. The additional space will house three new 10-color flexographic printing presses, two new slitter/rewinders and new PVC/PETG seaming equipment.

January 31, 1999

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Uniloy Milacron (Manchester, MI): Dewey Rainville, injection blow molding consultant.

January 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Mrs. Butterworth's speaks to kids

Packaging for Mrs. Butterworth's new line of kid-friendly syrups includes a polypropylene bottle, a drip-proof spout, a smaller, easy-to-hold 18-oz size and a jazzy label.

January 31, 1999

Converting equipment

New Anew comes in PET

In adding Anew Day Force, an advanced "vertical lifting lotion," to its premium line of Anew skin-care products, New York-based Avon could have specified a glass jar similar to the one used for Anew Night Force lotion.

January 31, 1999

Labels

Labelers deliver quick changeover

Neways' p-s labeling equipment accommodates a wide variety of containers, speeds product changeover by 30% and reduces rejects ten-fold.

December 31, 1998

Sustainability

Meadow Gold milks coding machinery

It wasn't too long ago that a one-line, 12-digit code was all that Southern Foods was able to hot-stamp onto its one-gal, high-density polyethylene jugs of Meadow Gold-brand milk.

December 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Sally Beauty's containers get a makeover

After having a successful line of hair-care products on the market for 20 years, Sally Beauty Co. decides it's time to update its look.

December 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Achievements

Ing. Eric Capra, dir. of the Corrugating Div. of Grupo Comeca (San José, Costa Rica), will receive the CMM Converter of the Americas award for his accomplishments and innovations in the Latin American converting/corrugating industry.

December 31, 1998