Controls & Machine Components

Mobile part storage fights for U.S. Marines

Behind the scenes in the war in Iraq, the United States Marine Corps has been supplied in part by container carousel storage systems from FKI Logistex White Systems.

January 31, 2004

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1546

Flexibles

Chef Creations has taste for aseptic cartons

Chef Creations, a division of Orlando, FL-based Culinary Concepts, in August launched what’s reportedly the first aseptically packaged gourmet hollandaise sauce and crème brulée in the United States.

January 31, 2004

Closures

Aesthetic tube packaging

CCL Plastic Packaging recently helped Slatkin & Co., a New York City-based home fragrance marketer, launch its ultra-stylized, personal care products line called Slatkin’s Body Therapy.

January 31, 2004

Labels

Royal label redesign

Indiana-based Oliver Winery recently hired Flowdesign to redesign two of the labels for its best selling wine products. Both wines use newly designed bottles topped with decorated corks that are seen through the clear glass.

January 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

CCL Plastic Packaging (Los Angeles, CA) formed an alliance with Weener Plastik Packaging Group (Weener, Germany.) CCL will have exclusive license and distribution rights in the U.S.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling changes recommended

In a mid-December 2003 report commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Health Canada, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called for redoing the Nutrition Facts panel on food labels.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

COOL delayed

Country-of-origin labeling requirements were put on hold for two years as lawmakers worked to wrap up a massive spending bill to keep the government in business by the end of the year.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Health claims labeling

FDA issued an advance notice of proposed rule making on how it will regulate qualified health claims. FDA solicited comments on three options. One would codify the current interim procedures and the ranking system based on the amount of scientific evidence.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

How low is low with carbs?

Responding to consumers’ heightened interest in consuming fewer carbohydrates, food companies are producing more low-carb foods. Manufacturers are asking FDA to set standards for low-carb foods similar to those for fat content.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Calls for "Alcohol Facts" panel

The Center for Science in the Public Interest and the National Consumers League petitioned the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to require uniform “Alcohol Facts” labels on all alcoholic beverage packages.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Unfinished business

As I began to gear up for 2004, I realized that my office was littered with a whole raft of news and feature story applications that, for a variety of reasons, were not published.

January 31, 2004

Containers

Belgian brewer moves fast to barrier-coated bottles

Deposit legislation in Germany spurred Martens Brewery to invest in an in-house line for making, coating, filling, and packaging of PET beer bottles.See video

January 31, 2004