Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Packaging process systems

The new T-3000 Series controllers combine the container handling and packaging experience of Taylor Products and the design in process control and condition monitoring knowledge of Hardy Instruments.

May 31, 2004

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1524

Flexibles

Redken stands up for pouch multipack

When designers at New York-based Redken decided to switch from traditional polyvinyl chloride folding cartons to clear, flexible stand-up pouches from Specialty Films & Associates for its Smooth Down multipacks of hair-care products, they gained a sharper, more modern design as well as added consumer convenience.

May 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Ripeness indicator proves fruitful

A sensor label puts science into the art of determining a pear’s ripeness.

May 31, 2004

Containers

Brown-Forman adds 750-mLs in PET

Based on the success of its 1.75-L bottles of spirits in PET bottles, Brown-Forman Corp., Louisville, KY, is now making available its Canadian Mist, Early Times and Southern Comfort products in new 750-mL bottles of PET, made by Amcor PET Packaging. The launch of the new bottles began early this year.

May 31, 2004

Closures

Nutty beer canister

What could be more natural than beer nuts in a beer can?

May 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The dirt on lawn and garden packaging

Charles Ratterree is art director as well as flexible packaging materials buyer for privately held Fafard Inc., a lawn and garden products company with headquarters in Agawam, MA.

May 31, 2004

Flexibles

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

May 31, 2004

Converting equipment

China: The Yin and the Yang

A number of conversations have kept the subject of China and packaging on my mind. First was a fresh flood of e-mails consisting of Chinese characters that regularly crashed the old Macintosh—the new Macintosh, too.

May 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Robert Bosch Verpakkingsmachinenes B.V.

May 31, 2004

Labels

People

MRI Flexible Packaging hired Jim Mallon as vice president of sales and marketing.

May 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

GM labeling in Europe takes effect

Tough new labeling and traceability requirements for genetically modified (GM) foods in Europe took effect April 18, 2004. Foods that contain or consist of genetically modified organisms or that are produced from them must be so labeled.

May 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sunkist goes voluntary on COOL

Hoping to demonstrate that a voluntary country-of-origin labeling program works better than the government’s proposed mandatory program, Sunkist Growers, Inc., has decided to add “USA” to the labels placed on individually sold oranges, lemons, tangerines, and grapefruits.

May 31, 2004

Sustainable Packaging

Proposed California recyling bill hit

A group of consumer product companies has formed the California Packaging Alliance to oppose a bill in the state Senate that would alter the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container (RPPC) calculation.

May 31, 2004