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Design firm bags new Pringles Select packaging

Say the word “Pringles,” and the image of a saddle-shape chip in a cylindrical container comes to mind. But when LPK (www.lpk.com), the design agency for Procter & Gamble’s Pringles’ brand, came up with a design for the company’s new Pringles Select gourmet potato chips, the firm dropped the cylindrical can in favor of a block-bottom pouch.

April 3, 2007

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Plastic bags provide looks, strength for horsefeed

TizWhiz horsefeed is corralled into durable, rain-repellent woven OPP bags that replace paper bags.

March 23, 2007

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Design firm bags new Pringles Select packaging

Gourmet version in four flavors drops the composite can in favor of a block-bottom pouch.

March 20, 2007

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Artisan chocolate bars on-the-go in sleeve-pouches

Recchiuti chocolate bars in three varieties are all dressed up in reclosable, foil-lined packs.

March 16, 2007

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Smooth operation

A modified liquid filler helps one commercial skincare products company clean up its act.

March 9, 2007

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Single-dose HIV pack takes the right PATH

FPA awarded a Special Citation for Social Responsibility for a multilayer foil-laminated pouch that allows HIV-positive mothers in Kenya, Africa to give their newborn babies a dose of Nevirapine oral suspension within 24 hours of birth, when the fast-acting drug is most effective in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1.

March 9, 2007

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Chips bag print reflects gold

New York Style Lightly Salted Organic Pita Chips earned a Gold Award for Printing Achievement for Genpak (www.genpak.com).

March 9, 2007

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Shaped SUPs replace pasta/sauce jars

Buitoni, a unit of Swiss-based Nestlé, and CLP Industries Ltd. (www.clp-packaging.com) have garnered an FPA Gold Award for Packaging Excellence in recognition of the development of shaped, stand-up retort pouches for Buitoni pasta and sauce products.

March 9, 2007

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Gourmet sweets in a 'green' package

Winning a Gold Award for Environmental Achievement was Northern Flair of Maple Plain MN. Its 5-oz stand-up pouch of Malto Bella Gourmet Malt Balls, filled by a contract packager, is produced by C&H Packaging (www.chpack.com) from a three-layer adhesive lamination of 48-ga polyester/48-ga metallized polyester/low-density polyethylene heat-seal layer. The clear polyester on top is reverse-printed in seven colors on a flexo press.

March 9, 2007

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Replacement for #10 can

Cryovac Food Packaging Div. of Sealed Air Corp. (www.sealedair.com) was awarded a Gold for Technical Innovation for its coextruded Flavour Mark™ retort material. Made of an unidentified multilayer coextrusion, the film is intended as a replacement for #10 cans to be used with the Cryovac Onpack vertical form/fill/seal system.

March 8, 2007

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Retorted pouch-within-a-pouch protects sensitive yeast products

Wyeast Laboratories, Inc., Hood River, OR, a leading producer of pure liquid yeast products (fermentation cultures) for beer- and wine-making, and Ampac Flexibles (www.ampaconline.com), a unit of Ampac Packaging LLC, have earned FPA’s 2007 Highest Achievement Award, including Gold Awards for both Packaging Excellence and Technical Innovation. These awards are in recognition of the “Smack Pack” 50-mL and 125-mL retortable stand-up pouch packaging system for Wyeast’s home brewer’s and vintner’s lines of products.

March 8, 2007

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FPA Awards--flexible fits for packaging puzzles

This year’s winners in the annual awards competition sponsored by the Flexible Packaging Association are technically, functionally, and graphically stunning. Standup pouches make a strong showing—again.

March 8, 2007

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Pouch-in-pouch earns FPA's top honor

Retorted pouch-within-a-pouch from Wyeast Labs protects sensitive yeast products to gain two golds and highest achievement honors in FPA's annual awards recognizing the best in flexible packaging.

March 5, 2007