Cartoning

Renovation reaps rewards for yogurt maker

New cup filling, accumulating, coding, cartoning and case packing equipment help Stonyfield Farm double yogurt capacity at its Londonderry, NH, headquarters facility.

October 31, 1999

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1739

Flexible packaging

Equipment 'Powers' stick-pack production

Fullerton, CA-based ConAgra Grocery is among the first to use a slim stick pack, for its Sidewalk Caf/ instant cappuccino. Contract manufacturer/packager The Power Group packs the product on Japanese equipment.

October 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Guzzlers bring new gear to Twin Mountain

When fruit-flavored Guzzlers proved popular, this bottled water marketer moved quickly to install both new bottle-making equipment as well as a new packaging line.

October 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Egg codes convey Rose Acre's quality commitment

By ink-jet coding directly onto eggs as well as on outer cartons, Rose Acre Farms believes it enjoys a competitive edge.

October 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Consumer education key to public embracing irradiation

Even without changes to labeling requirements, some consumers appear to understand the food safety benefits of irradiation, says a consumer researcher.

October 31, 1999

Closures

Welch tries plastic for hot-fill jams and jellies

Welch Foods is now testing a heat-set, hot-fillable jar made of polyethylene terephthalate for 32-oz jars of jelly and jam. The Concord, MA, firm is mum on the location and duration of the test.

October 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Caraustar Industries, Inc. (Austell, GA) and Carolina Converting, Inc. (Fayetteville, NC) have completed their merger agreement. Carolina Converting has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Caraustar Industries.

October 31, 1999

Sustainable Packaging

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Tetra Pak Inc. (Vernon Hills, IL) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in September to open its new environmentally friendly U.S. corporate headquarters at 101 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061; phone: 847/955-6000, fax: 847/955-6500.

October 31, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Packaging gets dressed up for Halloween

To distinguish its masks on crowded shelves during the Halloween season, Party Pals LLC took a blister-pack approach to packaging. It put its masks between front-and-back thermoformed pieces curved to conform to the shape of the mask.

October 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

One label for surimi

After a year-long campaign by surimi makers, FDA will allow them to use a single label to describe the fish that may or may not be in surimi. Surimi (deboned fish washed with water) is often found in cold seafood salad and is used to make imitation crab, scallops and lobster.

October 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Carlsberg's plastic beer bottle adds barrier

Just a few months after introducing a refillable beer bottle made of polyethylene naphthalate in Denmark (see Packaging World, Sept. '99, p. 10, or packworld.

October 31, 1999

Sustainable Packaging

Innovative paper packs recognized by 3M

Pizza Hut's "Better Box" carry-out package was the Pick of the Pack award winner in the 1999 3M Scotchban Innovation Awards program. Selected as the most innovative and environmentally responsible entry, the box is made of 150#-test B-flute corrugated.

October 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Irradiation petition

Twenty-eight food industry, academic and consumer groups signed onto a petition requesting that FDA approve the use of irradiation on a variety of ready-to-eat foods.

October 31, 1999