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

Fresh pasta maker romances long shelf life (sidebar)

Serving sauce for Sargento

January 31, 2001

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Flexible packaging

Fresh pasta maker romances long shelf life

Romance Foods pasteurizes its cooked, packaged pastas using a combination microwave/convection oven to achieve 75-day refrigerated shelf life.

January 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

New look for oyster packs

Induction-sealing is a key element in Minterbrook’s redesigned oyster package. Shelf life is extended, tamper evidence improved, and costs cut.

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Building sales through versatility

Tokyo-based cosmetics giant Kosé installs two modular, quick-change bottling lines versatile enough to handle nearly 100 different bottle shapes and sizes.

January 31, 2001

Closures

Robson's assembles a honey of a line (sidebar)

Custom look makes the difference

January 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Robson's assembles a honey of a line

Filling, capping and labeling jars of honey by hand was too slow at this Arizona honey maker, especially with new markets on the horizon. Automated machinery was the answer

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Sanford sold on 'cell' concept (sidebar)

Changeover changes

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Sanford sold on 'cell' concept (sidebar)

Initiating the ‘cell’ concept

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Sanford sold on 'cell' concept

In-line marker assembly and packaging, featuring an eight-station automatic heat-sealing unit, helps manufacturer increase production, save labor costs and meet just-in-time needs.

January 31, 2001

Flexibles

Packs switch to shrink film

Avalon Beverage Co., Glen Allen, VA, is packaging Avalon® Natural Spring Water multipacks in flexo-printed LDPE shrink film supplied by Sonoco Flexible Packaging.

December 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Beware the fine print

To overhaul the drug warnings to physicians usually found in fine print on drug packages or package inserts, the Food and Drug Administration proposed new regulations for new prescription drug packaging.

December 31, 2000

Closures

PET pack added to mayo spread

Bestfoods has added a squeezable, clear PET container to its Hellman’s mayonnaise line, which is packaged in standard glass containers. The new 18-oz Big Squeeze container is topped off with a 0.250”-orificed polypropylene flip-top dispensing closure, pigmented in dark and light blue.

December 31, 2000

Closures

Water tastes

from InterBev 2000: New aroma technology has been adapted to packaging technology by Scentsational Products Inc., a manufacturer of fruit-fragrance-infused closures.

December 31, 2000