Filling/capping, dry

Kraft a big believer in packaging

Part of the Worldpak 2002 conference program held June 23-28 at Michigan State University’s School of Packaging was a presentation by Glenview, IL-based Kraft Foods.

July 31, 2002

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1592

Flexibles

Reclosable package

Formost Packaging Machines, Inc. (Woodinville, WA) offers a new reclosable package created on Fuji-Formost horizontal and vertical wrappers.

July 31, 2002

Closures

Copolyester shines

France’s Montblanc introduced its first fragrance with packaging made from Eastman Chemical Co.’s (Kingsport, TN) Eastar® copolyester.

July 31, 2002

Containers

Montebello Packaging celebrates 50th Anniversary

Montebello Packaging (Montebello, Quebec, Canada) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary on August 20.

July 31, 2002

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Tesco sells sushi the Japanese way

Solway Foods, Corby, England, the sushi processor and packager, developed an unusual three-dimensional thermoformed tray and lid.

July 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

When robots take over: A worker's tale

Bonnie Dean works in the packaging operations at Gray and Co., Hart, MI, makers of Queen Anne chocolate-covered cherries. She was one of 10 employees whose duties changed dramatically in early 2001 when the company installed robotic case packers.

July 31, 2002

Flexibles

Phosphorescent decoration

To celebrate the “Festival du Film de Paris” this year, the French Champagne house Pierrel released a limited-edition bottle decorated with a phosphorescent shrink-sleeve label from Sleever Intl.

July 31, 2002

Closures

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

July 31, 2002

Flexibles

Companies

–Rohm and Haas Co. (Philadelphia, PA) has started production of adhesives for the Latin American Region at its new Brazilian adhesives plant in Jacare’.

July 31, 2002

Closures

Achievements

–Cargill Dow LLC (Minnetonka, MN) is the 2002 recipient of the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge, Alternative Reaction Conditions Award, and was honored in a ceremony held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.

July 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Make fresh data as accurate as frozen

Commenting on FDA’s proposed update of the list of the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruits, vegetables, and fish and their nutrition labeling values, the American Frozen Food Institute expressed its concern about what it believes to be the outdated nutrient values that are incorporated into the current voluntary labeling program.

July 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bar codes for drug products

The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to require bar codes on human drug products and medical devices as a means of reducing medical errors.

July 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

'Unpasteurized' policy

Every now and then, my cynical gene becomes recessive, and I become upset by an occurrence that, normally, I would simply shake my head at and overlook.

July 31, 2002