Labels

Bar codes on shrink sleeves

Seal-It manufacturers and prints shrink sleeves with bar codes for various manufacturers. Shrink sleeves made of heat-shrink PVC, PETG, and OPS help combine safety and marketing for retailers, company says.

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Secondary Packaging

Gen3 performance moves downstream

Generation3 performance is no longer the sole domain of high end packaging machinery.

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Closures

Latvian sauces get new tops

Spilva, Riga, Latvia, has increased sales of its popular sauces and salad dressings since it switched to distinctive bright red 38-mm medium-twist-button steel closures from Closures Europe, a Paris subsidiary of Crown Holdings, parent of Crown Cork & Seal (Philadelphia, PA).

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Containers

M&M Industries receives award

M&M Industries (Chattanooga, TN) received an Excellent Supplier Award from PPG Industries for 2002. M&M, which supplies child-resistant PE pails to PPG chloralkali and derivatives operations in the United States, is among 7 companies being honored by the manufacturer of coatings, fiber glass, glass, and chemicals.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

SATO partners with CCL Label

SATO America (Charlotte, NC) partnered with CCL Label (Rosemont, IL) whereby CCL with manufacture all RFID tags and labels for SATO America, as well as resell SATO RFID-enabled printers.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

All About Packaging adds thermoformers

All About Packaging (Appleton, WI) added 2 thermoformers and 2 slide blister flanging machines to its other package manufacturing machinery. Company can provide short lead times, and take a project from concept to finished package.

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Closures

Cap and closure demand to climb

According to Cleveland-based The Freedonia Group, demand for caps and closures in the United States will climb by more than 5% per year to nearly $6 billion in 2007.

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Flexibles

Shrink label

Made of heat-shrink PVC, Seal-It (Farmingdale, NY) shrink labels are printed in up to 10 colors. Specially formulated inks, and the glossiness of the film, give the labels an extra "pop." The labels are applied to varying package sizes by automatic equipment.

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Closures

Single-handed convenience

One-handed dispensing of coffee creamer is coming to dairy cases across the country as Morningstar Foods, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Dean Foods Co., begins shipping its International Delight brand in PET containers with a custom dispensing closure.

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Closures

Skippy squeezes into new packs

Unilever Bestfoods’ well-known Skippy brand could redefine the peanut butter category with two stunning new flexible packages.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Shaped aluminum bottle energizes Snapple's Elements

Aluminum containers continue to boost the energy drink category. Elements Beverage division of the Snapple Beverage Group, White Plains, NY, is using marketing alchemy to switch bottles of its Elements energy drinks from glass to aluminum.

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Sustainability

Coca-Cola wins recycling award

Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, received an award for outstanding corporate responsibility for its leadership in using recycled PET resin. The award, from the Plastic Redesign Project, Madison, WI, was presented at a luncheon Feb. 26, at the Take It Back! 2003 conference in Alexandria, VA, sponsored by Raymond Communications (Columbia, MD).

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Closures

Award-winning design

Nantze Springs won the International Bottled Water Assn.’s Aqua Award for the Best Package Design in the medium company category for its 8.5-oz water bottle design.

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