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Flexibles

Lipton stacks pouches in Japan

Looking to provide tea consumers in Japan with a package that differs from the standard folding carton, Lipton in April introduced three flavors of tea bags in an unusual Sleeve-In-Pouch (SIP) structure provided by Hosokawa Yoko (Mt. Laurel, NJ).

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Converting equipment

TAPPI's corrugated group more focused on packaging

In late October, the corrugated container division of The Assn. of the Pulp and Paper Industry became more aligned with packaging.

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Closures

A pasteurizable plastic beer bottle

Canada’s Brick Brewery has launched a 16-oz plastic beer bottle that the Waterloo, Ontario, brewer claims is the first single-serve plastic beer bottle in Canada.

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Flexibles

Sauce pouches fly into cartons

“It started out as a limited promotion, but now we see it as a tremendous opportunity to expand sampling to our other sauces.”

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Closures

Creating a competitive design

When Northfield, MN-based Malt-O-Meal Co. decided to position its line of ready-to-eat value cereals as a direct competitor of national boxed brands, they enlisted Mackey Szar (Minneapolis, MN) to redesign the cereal line’s packaging to reflect this new strategy.

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Cartoning

Web Plus: Sites

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Interfilm Holdings (Piedmont, SC) will begin slitting and distributing Cellophane™ films for certain narrow-web customers of UCB Films (Smyrna, GA) located primarily in North America.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

People

Elected to four-year terms on the Board of Directors at the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute are (from left) John Raterman, vice president North American sales at Nordson Corp.; Glenn Siegele, president of Omega Design Corp.; Randy Spahr, vice president of Packaging Machines Intl.; and Andrew Zucaro, president of Azco Corp.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA voluntary allergen-labeling guidelines

The U.S. Department of Agricultures’s Food Safety and Information Service will consider any nonmisleading symbols, statements, or logos that meat and poultry packages might want to use to inform consumers of the presence of potential food allergens in meat, poultry, and eggs.

December 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Biotech labeling nixed

Some 73% of Oregon voters in the November election rejected mandatory labeling for all biotech foods. Ballot Measure 27 would have required any food or beverage produced with genetically modified material to be labeled as such, whether or not the material is in the final product.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Trans fat labeling

In November 2002, FDA reopened the comment period on its final rule on mandatory trans fat labeling for an additional 30 days so that interested parties could weigh in on a footnote statement FDA plans to add.

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Closures

Pipeline: Confessions of a club store addict

It doesn’t matter what name is over the door; there is something about club stores that makes them a magnet for me. It wasn’t so bad when we had a big chest freezer in the basement plus a second refrigerator.

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