Flexibles

Promo pouches packed with Bliss

When Unilever marketers in Ontario, Canada, needed a promotional mailer for samples of new Snuggle-brand liquid Botanical Bliss fabric softener, they had two key requirements.

November 30, 2003

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Converting equipment

Henkel cuts fees with new Sil package

The Henkel Group, Düsseldorf, Germany, has cut the costs of packaging fees on its Sil-brand stain-removing laundry powder by using a new package with a moisture-vapor-barrier built into the box.

November 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Q&A: Corrugated's role in RFID

Andy Kerr(above) is a Development Technician specializing in corrugated packaging at Eastman Kodak, and he’s been re-elected chairman of the End User Advisory Committee at the Technical Assn. of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Here, Andy talks about the RFID program held recently at TAPPI’s October conference in Dallas.

November 30, 2003

Labels

Supplement bottles re-energized

Last year, Twin Laboratories, Ronkonkoma, NY, took a product line of nutritional supplements and strengthened it with updated packaging. The change for the line of more than 100 products—only a small sampling is shown in the photo—is dramatic.

November 30, 2003

Labels

Health claims Web pages

FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is reorganizing its Web pages to combine information in all categories of label health claims for both food and dietary supplements.

November 30, 2003

Flexibles

Retort pouch call for papers

December 15 is the deadline for presentation topics for the Retort Pouch Americas 2004 conference at the Radisson Inn in Princeton, NJ, April 21 and 22.

November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

RJRT retrofits its future

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco modernizes case packers and robotic palletizers with updated controls.

November 30, 2003

Protective/transport packaging

Microsoft pack wins EPA design challenge

A new shipping package that looks like an envelope and protects like a box won the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cradle-to-Cradle E-Commerce Package Design Challenge, announced at the recent Pack Expo Las Vegas show in October.

November 30, 2003

Closures

Recloseable can a first in North America

Hirzel Canning Co. and Farms, Toledo, OH, is test-marketing in Cleveland and Chicago recloseable 12-oz tin-plated steel cans of Dei Fratelli-brand Italian Dip and Pizza Sauce.

November 30, 2003

Labels

'Tis the season

Newly revised graphics now decorate Smith Dairy's 30- and 11-oz bottles of premium and low-fat Moovers-brand eggnog. Both products from the Orrville, OH-based dairy are ultra-pasteurized to offer 120-day shelf life. The refrigerated products reached store shelves in mid-October.

November 30, 2003

Labels

Creating a sparkling holiday design

Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice Cocktails will be dressed as Nutcrackers this year for the holiday season, thanks to designers at The Bailey Group.

November 30, 2003

Flexible packaging

X-ray technology

Smiths Heimann offers the Eagle Bantam, designed to provide an inexpensive solution to inspection. Features include the machine's 53" length, environmental design to support both IP64 and IP65 requirements, inspection speeds to 400'/min, statistics and reporting capability, and contaminant detection as well as check weighing, count, mission pouch, and void detection.

November 30, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Prent themoform pack wins award

Prent Corp. won a distinguished award at the Society of Plastics Engineers Thermoforming Conference held in Cincinnati in September 2003.

October 31, 2003