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Flexible packaging

Pouch receives Member's Choice award

This year’s Flexible Packaging Assn. Member’s Choice award went to Specialty Films & Associates’ entry for the Digital Innovations MP3 Pouch.

February 29, 2004

Containers

Paper or plastic?

When a bulk-milk dairy added route service to its mix, it needed conveying and palletizing to handle either corrugated boxes or plastic crates.

February 29, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Alloyd introduces new generation Aergo sealing machine

The Alloyd Company has introduced an entirely new blister sealing machine that combines ergonomic enhancements with a unique process that enables it to seal both plastic-to-plastic and blister-to-card packages.

February 29, 2004

Containers

Calorie catharsis

FDA’s attack on obesity promises food label copy changes while substantive packaging purges may be possible, too.

February 29, 2004

Converting equipment

Kemps gives consumers a hand-le

Just a few days before Christmas, Marigold Foods, Minneapolis, MN, began to ship its customers Kemps milk in a new gallon jug of high-density polyethylene with an integral handle that’s designed to resemble an old-fashioned pitcher.

February 29, 2004

Flexibles

Graphics reflect 'fabulous' work

The snazzy, award-winning packaging for Fafard Seed starter potting soil is well-grounded in innovative techniques.

February 29, 2004

Flexibles

Heinz stands up in foodservice

H.J. Heinz and Pechiney Plastic Packaging combined to win a Printing Gold award from the Flexible Packaging Assn. with a single-serve, stand-up gusseted pouch used for nine Heinz condiments, including ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, jams, and syrup.

February 29, 2004

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

American Italian Pasta Co.: Vf/f/s on a pasta packaging line

Film is fed to the vf/f/s machine from Triangle from a floor-level unwind stand. Bags as small as 8 oz or as large as 10 lb are filled on the machine.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID survey: What consumers think

With all the buzz about radio-frequency identification, isn’t it time consumers chimed in about RFID? In this new survey, they do.

January 31, 2004

Labels

Flavor-infused packaging

Ferolito Vultaggio & Sons, creators of AriZona Iced Tea products, recently added a new water product to its beverage portfolio.

January 31, 2004

Labels

Award-winning milk design

Compass Design's package designs for Kemps' flavored milk recently won a Gold award from the 10th Annual Beverage Packaging Global Design Awards, a worldwide design competition for beverage packaging and branding.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID: Marks & Spencer

At the Intelligent and Smart Packaging USA 2004 conference held in Las Vegas Jan. 27-28, I had the opportunity to listen to speeches by representatives from Nestlé, Purina, AstraZeneca, the U.S. Department of Defense, and more.

January 31, 2004