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Labels

Specialty drinks get old look

As the new year begins, Hansen's Beverage Co. looks to the past with its new line of "signature" sodas. They're packaged in brown glass bottles with crown closures and full-body shrink labels that evoke a feeling of simpler times.

November 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Processors urge no labeling of biotech foods

Food industry representatives stressed the safety of biotech foods in testimony at a hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee in early October.

November 30, 1999

Flexibles

Scott's plants new zipper on Miracle-Gro bags

In January, The Scott's Co. is replacing a traditional reclosable zipper with a sliding version on its 8- and 16-qt bottom-gusseted, stand-up bags of Miracle-Gro® potting mix.

November 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wine labeling being reviewed

In February 1999, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms granted authority to wine makers to include a mention that moderate consumption of wine is associated with a lower risk of heart disease for some people.

November 30, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Labeler minimizes downtime at bundler

Dairy Crest of Gloucestershire, England, is the first to install a Harland Zeta thermal-print-and-apply labeler from Harland Machine Systems (Manchester, England).

November 30, 1999

Tamper-evident machinery

Smooth sealing of fruit smoothie base

When J.R. Wood Co. landed a contract to fill a fruit smoothie concentrate for a large convenience-store chain, management decided the best way to assure seal integrity and tamper evidence was through an induction-sealed foil membrane.

November 30, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

In order to improve profitability, DuPont (Wilmington, DE) will streamline and restructure its polyester enterprise. Businesses included are DuPont Dacron®, DuPont Polyester Films and DuPont Polyester Resins & Intermediates.

November 30, 1999

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Potato chip marketer rolls out a zipper

When it comes to packages with reclosable zippers, potato chip makers have not been able to get past test-market status (see Packaging World, Feb.

November 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Quality Dairy 'pops' with integral straw

By next spring, Quality Dairy Co. expects to be the first company to sell beverages in bottles equipped with an integral flexible straw that pops up and partially out of the bottle when its closure is removed.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Neocork is winning converts in Napa Valley

Among the first to use a newly developed synthetic wine cork called Neocork(TM) was Lane Tanner winery of Napa, CA. Lane Tanner, owner of the 14-year-old winery, says that her switch from organic to synthetic corks has greatly reduced the number of bottles in which wine has been spoiled by oxygen ingress.

November 30, 1999

Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

St. Laurent Packaging Corp. (Richmond, VA) will invest $1.1 million in a new bulk box laminator, to be installed in its Baltimore bulk packaging facility by the middle of next year.

November 30, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Packaging slims down

Fluidmaster's recent redesign of the blister package it uses for its flush valves resulted in a blister pack that's 20% to 30% more compact than the previous package, according to the San Juan Capistrano, CA-based company.

November 30, 1999