Closures

Welch tries plastic for hot-fill jams and jellies

Welch Foods is now testing a heat-set, hot-fillable jar made of polyethylene terephthalate for 32-oz jars of jelly and jam. The Concord, MA, firm is mum on the location and duration of the test.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Packaging gets dressed up for Halloween

To distinguish its masks on crowded shelves during the Halloween season, Party Pals LLC took a blister-pack approach to packaging. It put its masks between front-and-back thermoformed pieces curved to conform to the shape of the mask.

October 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Carlsberg's plastic beer bottle adds barrier

Just a few months after introducing a refillable beer bottle made of polyethylene naphthalate in Denmark (see Packaging World, Sept. '99, p. 10, or packworld.

October 31, 1999

Closures

Drug packaging regs

Packaging for an approved new drug may be affected by FDA's proposed amendments to its new drug regulations. At issue is when any change to an approved new drug requires the filing of a supplemental new drug application (SNDA), when FDA prior approval is needed, and when a notice in an annual report is sufficient.

October 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

Paperboard rounds serve refrigerated pancakes

Spotted at WestPack in September was a colorful round paperboard container that holds six ready-to-eat pancakes introduced earlier this year by Spartan Foods of America, Spartanburg, SC.

October 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Bayer pours into lawn-and-garden containers

Spotted at the August National Hardware Show in Chicago were containers from Bayer-Pursell that are notable for their combination of functionality and good looks.

October 31, 1999

Labels

Heinz ketchup labels cop an attitude

In the first major label change on Heinz ketchup bottles since the venerable product debuted in 1876, the words "Tomato Ketchup" will be replaced with comical messages directed at teens.

October 31, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Report plots growth of PET used in packaging

According to a recent study by Tecnon (UK) Ltd. (London, England), global consumption of polyethylene terephthalate resin used in packaging applications will rise from 4.45 million tons in 1997 to 11.53 million tons in 2007.

October 31, 1999

Sustainability

FDA pressed to 'repackage' 120-day approval program

Congress appears likely to provide at least part of the $6 million needed to get a new 120-day notification program off the ground by Oct. 1. But many manufacturers are concerned with how the FDA will administer the program.

September 30, 1999

Protective/transport packaging

Tie-rod cylinder

A new corrosion-resistant, stainless-steel tie-rod cylinder from Parker Hydraulic Group's Cylinder Div. (Des Plaines, IL) is used in the food processing, packaging and industrial markets.

September 30, 1999

Closures

CTC Parker Automation: PC-based HMI control

PowerPanel(TM) from CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH) is a PC-based control and HMI solution for OEM machine builders. The flat-panel monitor and remote PC box are bundled with CTC's Interact HMI software.

September 30, 1999

Flexibles

User fees stuck in neutral, (sidebar)

FDA pressed to 'repackage' 120-day approval program

September 30, 1999

Flexible packaging

Cloud connects to auto splicing

Chicagoland contract packager ups efficiency by adding an automated splicer onto a rollstock-driven, high-speed hf/f/s pouch machine.

September 30, 1999