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Coding, Printing & Labeling

New grips and a Clear Choice Award

Neither a sports drink nor an iced tea, Talking Rain Beverage Co.'s new Ice(TM) Flavored Water began appearing on store shelves this June in a custom-designed 24-oz bottle known as "The Grip." "It took two years to design this bottle," says John Stevens, founder of the Preston, WA-based company.

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Containers

Supplier news: Achievements

ISO 9002 registration: ITW Angleboard's (Glenview, IL) Loveland, OH, plant; Jefferson Smurfit's (St. Louis, MO) Corona, CA, Boston, MA, and Shelby, NC, container plants, as well as its Ft.

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Flexibles

Mixing into the marketplace

Originally a producer of iced tea concentrate for foodservice, Beach Brew Beverage Co.'s first retail introduction comes in an attention-getting package: a die-cut pouch resembling a pitcher and containing a liquid iced tea concentrate.

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Additives, coatings & inks

Reason finally overtakes Delaney

With great political fanfare, President Bill Clinton signed pesticide reform legislation in late July establishing a single health-based standard for both raw and processed foods.

August 31, 1996

Containers

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

U.S. Can Corp. (Oak Brook, IL) has agreed to purchase plastic pail producer CPI Plastics, Inc. (Newnan, GA) and two related companies, CP Illinois (Jerseyville, IL) and CP Ohio (Alliance, OH).

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Flexible packaging

Frozen--and functional--Paradise

Frozen Paradise Drinks(TM), Seagram Beverage Co.'s late entry to the successful premixed, shelf-stable frozen drink category, may prove that good things happen to those who wait.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Break/peel/push blister security

A unique break/peel/push blister pack devised by Chicago-based G.D. Searle provides a heightened degree of child-resistance for its Covera-HS prescription medication, launched in June.

August 31, 1996

Closures

Casual tamperers tempted no more

An unlikely "marketer"--the State of Maryland--has taken steps to discourage casual tampering of crab meat packed in containers with snap-on lids. Seems that even the best-behaved supermarket shopper will occasionally sneek a peek, whiff or even a bite of that luscious but expensive fresh crab meat.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

Resins OK'd for fatty food packaging

In June the Food and Drug Administration approved Exxon Chemical's (Houston, TX) Oppera® modified polypropylene film resins for use in direct contact with fatty foods such as salty snacks, processed meats and cheeses, and confectionery items.

August 31, 1996

Closures

Pearlescent coating finishes

Tech Industries (Woonsocket, RI) has introduced one-coat pearlescent finishes for closures. They consist of specialty pigments mixed with tin-free rutile titanium dioxide- and/or iron oxide-coated mica particles to provide color gradation and texture.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Shrink packaging system

Heat Sealing Equipment Manufacturing's (Cleveland, OH) new heat seal machine incorporates an L-bar sealer and shrink tunnel into one machine, and takes half the floor space of comparable systems, says the company.

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Additives, coatings & inks

Octagonal bulk container

Easy8(TM) is a patented new heavy-duty bulk corrugated container that sets up in about four seconds, says manufacturer Georgia-Pacific (Atlanta, GA).

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