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

Luxurious look for premium products

A new line of Log Cabin syrups and pancake mixes fills a gap in the marketplace between mainstream brands and high-priced specialty brands, says Ed Yuhas, director of con-sumer marketing for Aurora Foods, Columbus, OH.

June 30, 1999

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Brits debate genetic food labeling

The controversy between the U.S. and Europe over whether or not genetically altered foods should be so labeled heated up recently when the British Medical Assn.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Adidas runs with new printers

Unhappy with the speed of its previous shipping case printers, Portland, OR-based Adidas America replaced the equipment with 38 new 9840 printers from Monarch Marking Systems (Miamisburg, OH).

June 30, 1999

Flexible packaging

Migros 'MAPS' out a meat strategy

The Migros chain of supermarkets in Switzerland relies on barrier materials and centralized, modified-atmosphere packaging for its case-ready fresh ground beef.

June 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sunscreen labeling changes

New regulations on sun protection products are designed to better inform consumers. The regulations call for uniform, streamlined labeling on all OTC sunscreen products, including sunscreen-cosmetic combinations.

June 30, 1999

Labeling

Alcoholic beverage packaging ban stuns

A new proposal to limit packaging options staggers industry. Agency would ban alcohol in packages that could lure underage drinkers.

June 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Key International: Inspection roller/conveyor

A new tablet/capsule inspection roller conveyor machine from Key Intl. (Englishtown, NJ) identifies defective product within a 24" work area. The K-1000 Roller-TC Inspector is suitable for inspecting such items as nutritional products and small high-tech products.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Baldor Electric Company: Servo and positioning drives

Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) has released a new family of servo and positioning drives: FlexDrive, Flex+Drive and MINTDrive. When matched with Baldor's BSM servo motors, these drives can deliver torques to 366in.-lb and speeds to 7ꯠ rpm.

June 30, 1999

Cartoning

Buying plans strong for '99

Purchasing plans for packaging machinery will outpace inflation in '99, says a survey conducted for PMMI. Pharmaceutical/medical and beverage businesses see biggest gains, while three industries expect declines.

June 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Newman Labeling Systems: Labeling system

Newman Machinery (Belle Mead, NJ) has introduced the 8FL p-s labeling system, which offers product tracking without the addition of a separate vision system.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Insulating material

Dow Chemical (Midland, MI) offers 2 new brochures describing Instill(TM) vacuum insulation core for use in vacuum insulation panels. The first brochure highlights how Instill core can provide significant design flexibility, improved insulation performance and cost savings.

June 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Krones, Inc: Rotary sleeve labelers

Krones (Franklin, WI) has developed two new automatic rotary sleeve-labeling machines for speeds to 700 bottles/min. The Krones Stretchmatic handles stretchable sleeve films for the cylindrical or only slightly conical portions of the bottle.

June 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Shrink-wrapped protection for white goods

When a British manufacturer of freezers and refrigerators entered a more upscale segment of the market, shrink film was the packaging material of choice.

June 30, 1999