Sustainability

Food packs sparkle in DuPont Awards

From an Ocean Spray package that won the Diamond Award to a vacuum-insulated container for foods and other temperature-sensitive products, this year’s DuPont Award winners are an eclectic and innovative bunch.

January 31, 2000

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Flexibles

Supplier news: International agreements

Sidel (La Havre, France) has acquired Norden Pac (Kalmar, Sweden).—Pinnacle Automation (St. Louis, MO) has been acquired by FKI plc (Loughborough, U.K.).—Amcor Twinpak North America (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) has reached an agreement to acquire a majority interest in Stevens Flexible Packaging, Inc.

January 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA says OK to irradiation

In late December 1999, USDA issued its long-awaited rule permitting the irradiation of frozen or refrigerated raw meat and meat products to kill harmful microorganisms.

January 31, 2000

Additives, coatings & inks

FDA fires starter's gun on 'fast track'

Agency offers details of new 120-day approval program usable for most—but not all—food-contact substrate materials.

January 31, 2000

Sustainability

Mystery of the missing PMNs

The FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are both scratching their figurative heads over packaging suppliers’ apparent hesitancy to use the agency’s new 120-day packaging approval program.

December 31, 1999

Closures

A mark of maturity for materials marketplaces

Internet-based marketplaces for materials used in packaging have come a long way since their inception. This month we’ll focus on two sites that packagers and converters can use to purchase plastics and paper.

December 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

NesQuik and Gatorade shine at DrinkPak '99

Aseptic filling of Nestle U.S.A.'s NesQuik and Quaker Oats' Gatorade were two of the hot topics on the agenda at this December conference.

December 31, 1999

Closures

A spoonful of guidance makes the packaging go down

FDA clarifies aspects of just-released ‘new’ drug packaging guidance. However, industry is very anxious about upcoming ‘old’ drug guidance.

December 31, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

KoSa (Charlotte, NC): Carolyn Case, dir., global recycling development, Packaging Resins business.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: International agreements

KoSa (Houston, TX) and Catalana de Polimers (Barcelona, Spain), have signed a letter of intent to form a 50:50 joint venture to manufacture packaging resins.

November 30, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

In order to improve profitability, DuPont (Wilmington, DE) will streamline and restructure its polyester enterprise. Businesses included are DuPont Dacron®, DuPont Polyester Films and DuPont Polyester Resins & Intermediates.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Neocork is winning converts in Napa Valley

Among the first to use a newly developed synthetic wine cork called Neocork(TM) was Lane Tanner winery of Napa, CA. Lane Tanner, owner of the 14-year-old winery, says that her switch from organic to synthetic corks has greatly reduced the number of bottles in which wine has been spoiled by oxygen ingress.

November 30, 1999

Sustainability

California battle looms over plastics recycling

Plastics recycling and recycled content of containers initiate new legislative conflicts in California. Industry and environmentalists appear polarized, as legislators look for common ground.

October 31, 1999