Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Amish packager takes hands-on approach

A new skin-pack machine provides an Amish manufacturer of brass curios with a smaller, cleaner-looking package that occupies less space on gift-shop shelves.

January 31, 2000

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1768

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA fires starter's gun on 'fast track' (sidebar)

Label ‘libel’ for biotech foods?

January 31, 2000

Additives, coatings & inks

FDA fires starter's gun on 'fast track'

Agency offers details of new 120-day approval program usable for most—but not all—food-contact substrate materials.

January 31, 2000

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Packaging for kids at Kellogg and Dannon

When these two food processing powerhouses used existing brands as launch pads for kid-oriented new products, they were highly selective about their choice of containers.

January 31, 2000

Secondary Packaging

Retorted food pouches ready for market push

Knauss and Esskay introduce foods in retorted pouches without foil for retail. StarKist Seafood sells a foil-based pouch of tuna to foodservice accounts. Will others follow suit?

January 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Contract packager blends vf/f/s systems

Unusual integrated blending scale systems enable a California contract packager to fill as many as nine different individually quick-frozen vegetables into a single bag.

January 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Newcourt Financial’s Industrial Finance Group: Equipment financing

Newcourt Financial’s Industrial Finance Group (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) provides specialized packaging equipment financing ranging from $25ꯠ to $1 million for commercial and industrial equipment.

December 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Augros: Makeup compact

Augros (Clark, NJ) has introduced its low-profile makeup compact. The SAN/ABS compact stands less than ?” tall and is actually a jar with a lid. Augros says shallow threads and a gasket that is sealed sonically to the compact without glue allow for an air-tight seal that will keep makeup fresh.

December 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Health Care Products, LLC: Medical-device packaging

Phoenix Health Care Products (Milwaukee, WI) now offers a polyvinyl acetate system for sterilizable medical-device packaging. This heat-seal material is flexographically coated within the sealing zone, resulting in a clean opening and controlled fiber-evident peel.

December 31, 1999

Sustainability

Mystery of the missing PMNs

The FDA and the pharmaceutical industry are both scratching their figurative heads over packaging suppliers’ apparent hesitancy to use the agency’s new 120-day packaging approval program.

December 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

UCB Films Inc. (Smyrna, GA): Andy Newman, president.—AGR Intl., Inc. (Butler, PA): Henry Dimmick, Jr., CEO; Robert Cowden, vp, sales and service.—American National Can Group, Inc.

December 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Supplier news: International agreements

IWKA AG (Karlsruhe, Germany) has taken over the packaging technology div. of Jagenberg AG (Düsseldorf, Germany). Concurrently, IWKA has sold its defense technology div.

December 31, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Videojet Systems Intl., Inc. (Wood Dale, IL) has changed its name to Marconi Data Systems Inc. The name change supports the recent rebranding of Videojet’s parent group from GEC to Marconi plc.—Power Packaging (St.

December 31, 1999