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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Trends
Flexibles
New thermoform makes tuna salad easier
After a '90s makeover, Charlie the StarKist Tuna resurfaces on packages of a new product, Ready Mixed Tuna Salad & Crackers. The product is a more convenient form of the Lunch Kit that StarKist Seafoods, Newport, KY, has been marketing for about four years.
July 31, 1996
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Closures
Inverted margarine squeezes easy
Van den Bergh Foods, Lisle, IL, has introduced a truly user-friendly container for its Country Crock® and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter® squeezable margarine products.
July 31, 1996
Sustainability
Delaney nearing revision
The longstanding battle to reform the decades-old Delaney Clause, which prohibits the use of any carcinogenic additive in processed food, is moving forward in Congress.
July 31, 1996
Containers
Shrink graphics fire up hot sauce sales
Bold shrink band graphics that simulate molten lava erupting from 5 oz glass bottles of Little Freddy's Hot Lava hot sauce have spurred product sales by 15 to 20%.
July 31, 1996
Converting equipment
Brewers turn to PET bottles, wide-mouth cans
A six-month shelf life is claimed for amber 1-L bottles of polyethylene terephthalate holding dark beers produced and marketed by Canada's Algonquin Brewing Co., Ltd., Mississauga, Ont.
July 31, 1996
Flexibles
Clear surgical glove pouch carves out high-end niche
At a time when most surgical glove pouches consist of paper webs that are cold-sealed together, ECI Medical Technologies is positioning its product at the high end by introducing gloves in a clear film pouch that's printed gravure in two colors.
July 31, 1996
Sustainability
Munsterland likes 'green' package
Munsterland of Essen, Germany, announced on May 13 at interpack 96 that it was launching two premium margarine-like spreads, MM Extra and MM Super, in the Tetra Box from Filltech (Helsingborg, Sweden).
July 31, 1996
Closures
Natrel nets 30-day shelf life
A 30-day shelf life for fresh refrigerated milk?
July 31, 1996
Flexibles
Maximizing its Orbitz
Orbitz, the new beverage that employs patent-pending "suspension technology" to keep "vegetable-based gel spheres" floating within it, hardly needs a fancy package to get attention.
July 31, 1996
Flexibles
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Love Box Co. (Wichita, KS) opened an office and warehouse in Columbia, MO.
June 30, 1996
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
PVC blister film
Mirrex® 1025 PVC pharmaceutical blister film from American Mirrex (New Castle, DE) provides faster cycle times, and forms at temperatures as low as 67° C.
June 30, 1996
Flexible packaging
Auger filler
The Servo 3000 auger filler from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) uses a patent-pending "sliding key" auger adapter shaft to remove auger screws for changeovers without tools.
June 30, 1996
Additives, coatings & inks
Resin identifier
The Plastics Group of America (Woonsocket, RI) has introduced a unique teaching and specification tool called The ResinKit(TM). It is available to help molders and plastics specifiers establish the identity of unknown resin samples.
June 30, 1996
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