Conveying & accumulation

Black Bear Bottling Group LLC: Bottle labeling for regional beverage bottler

Bottles index single file through a timing screw to the labeling station: a new Model 3125 labeler from Label-Aire . Label rollstock unwinds through a series of dancer rollers.

January 31, 2003

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Conveying & accumulation

Black Bear Bottling Group LLC: Air knives dry bottles for regional beverage packager

To gain optimal carbonation, Black Bear beverage temperatures are just above freezing.

January 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Vision labeling system

Now available with SelfSet technology, the Hawk labeler from CVC Technologies (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) includes memory capacity for saving and automatically setting up as many as 50 jobs.

January 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

January 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Klöckner Pentaplast (Gordonsville, VA) unveils a new logo moving into 2003.

January 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA relaxes health claims rules

FDA announced a new policy on health claims on food labels, holding them to the same standard as dietary supplements. The “qualified” health claims must still be truthful, nonmisleading, and well substantiated by scientific evidence, but scientists need not have reached consensus on their validity.

January 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New sun warnings for popular cosmetics

FDA issued a draft guidance for labeling of topically applied cosmetics containing alpha hydroxy acids to ensure that labeling for these products is not false or misleading.

January 31, 2003

Labeling

Drug companies send FDA mixed message on bar codes

Brand-name, OTC and generic drug firms voice varying degrees of qualified acceptance of bar codes on pharmaceutical packages.

January 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label shipments to grow

United States shipments of labels will expand 4.8% annually through 2006, to reach a value of $14 billion.

December 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Interfilm Holdings (Piedmont, SC) will begin slitting and distributing Cellophane™ films for certain narrow-web customers of UCB Films (Smyrna, GA) located primarily in North America.

December 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

People

Elected to four-year terms on the Board of Directors at the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute are (from left) John Raterman, vice president North American sales at Nordson Corp.; Glenn Siegele, president of Omega Design Corp.; Randy Spahr, vice president of Packaging Machines Intl.; and Andrew Zucaro, president of Azco Corp.

December 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA voluntary allergen-labeling guidelines

The U.S. Department of Agricultures’s Food Safety and Information Service will consider any nonmisleading symbols, statements, or logos that meat and poultry packages might want to use to inform consumers of the presence of potential food allergens in meat, poultry, and eggs.

December 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Biotech labeling nixed

Some 73% of Oregon voters in the November election rejected mandatory labeling for all biotech foods. Ballot Measure 27 would have required any food or beverage produced with genetically modified material to be labeled as such, whether or not the material is in the final product.

December 31, 2002