Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Service opportunities abound in foodservice

But it's also evident even in more expensive establishments. My wife and I have been disappointed for a wide variety of reasons, often because the restaurant didn't have the meal that we ordered from the menu.

November 30, 1999

Materials: Page 732

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

KoSa (Charlotte, NC): Carolyn Case, dir., global recycling development, Packaging Resins business.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: International agreements

KoSa (Houston, TX) and Catalana de Polimers (Barcelona, Spain), have signed a letter of intent to form a 50:50 joint venture to manufacture packaging resins.

November 30, 1999

Labels

Specialty drinks get old look

As the new year begins, Hansen's Beverage Co. looks to the past with its new line of "signature" sodas. They're packaged in brown glass bottles with crown closures and full-body shrink labels that evoke a feeling of simpler times.

November 30, 1999

Flexibles

Scott's plants new zipper on Miracle-Gro bags

In January, The Scott's Co. is replacing a traditional reclosable zipper with a sliding version on its 8- and 16-qt bottom-gusseted, stand-up bags of Miracle-Gro® potting mix.

November 30, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Labeler minimizes downtime at bundler

Dairy Crest of Gloucestershire, England, is the first to install a Harland Zeta thermal-print-and-apply labeler from Harland Machine Systems (Manchester, England).

November 30, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

In order to improve profitability, DuPont (Wilmington, DE) will streamline and restructure its polyester enterprise. Businesses included are DuPont Dacron®, DuPont Polyester Films and DuPont Polyester Resins & Intermediates.

November 30, 1999

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

Potato chip marketer rolls out a zipper

When it comes to packages with reclosable zippers, potato chip makers have not been able to get past test-market status (see Packaging World, Feb.

November 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Quality Dairy 'pops' with integral straw

By next spring, Quality Dairy Co. expects to be the first company to sell beverages in bottles equipped with an integral flexible straw that pops up and partially out of the bottle when its closure is removed.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Neocork is winning converts in Napa Valley

Among the first to use a newly developed synthetic wine cork called Neocork(TM) was Lane Tanner winery of Napa, CA. Lane Tanner, owner of the 14-year-old winery, says that her switch from organic to synthetic corks has greatly reduced the number of bottles in which wine has been spoiled by oxygen ingress.

November 30, 1999

Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

St. Laurent Packaging Corp. (Richmond, VA) will invest $1.1 million in a new bulk box laminator, to be installed in its Baltimore bulk packaging facility by the middle of next year.

November 30, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Packaging slims down

Fluidmaster's recent redesign of the blister package it uses for its flush valves resulted in a blister pack that's 20% to 30% more compact than the previous package, according to the San Juan Capistrano, CA-based company.

November 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

AZCO Corp.: AZCO Corp.: Pouch dispenser

Azco's (Elmwood Park, NJ) SP-110 Sur-Pak pouch dispenser is a high-speed, low-maintenance, heavy-duty dispenser that inserts medium-sized pouched products up to 60 g (2.1 oz) into another packaging operation at 300 pouches/min.

October 31, 1999