Closures

Hormel's pack makes bacon ready-to-eat

For the first time, fully precooked bacon strips are now available virtually anywhere in the supermarket. A new thermoformed MAP flexible package allows Hormel Foods, Austin, MN, to pack oxygen-sensitive cooked bacon slices without refrigeration for up to four months.

April 30, 1999

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Conveying & accumulation

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Conveying Solutions (Cambridge, MD), a new co. that provides conveyors and conveyor belts, operates from 1110 Stone Boundary Rd., P.O. Box 27, Cambridge, MD 21613; phone: 888/816-2961, fax: 410/901-2415.

April 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Beef labeling

Congress continues to ponder requiring country-of-origin labels on some imported foods, including beef and lamb. Package labels would indicate the origin of the meat source and the percentages of both domestic and imported meat when they are blended, as in ground beef.

April 30, 1999

Flexibles

New product clearly calls for a tube

When Minneapolis-based Lamaur Corp. added Extra Hold Styling Gel to its Willow Lake® line of hair care products, management wanted to keep the look of the other containers in the Willow Lake line.

April 30, 1999

Flexible packaging

Standing up to the competition

By early this summer, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler expects to complete its nationwide rollout of Cheez-It® baked snack mixes in three varieties.

April 30, 1999

Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

CP Louisiana, Inc. (New Orleans, LA), General Steel Drum Corp. (Charlotte, NC), Nesco Container Corp. (Fenton, MO), North Coast Container Corp.

April 30, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Robots continue march into packaging

It will come as no surprise to anyone who may have walked Pack Expo 98 last November, but robot makers expect heady growth in packaging applications over the next few years.

April 30, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Sharp Ivers-Lee (Conshohocken, PA) will add two bottling lines at its West Caldwell, NJ, facility by mid-year.

April 30, 1999

Flexible packaging

New market means new packaging

Sundried tomatoes are a $20 million category, according to marketing vice president Howard Nager of Sunsweet Growers. To break into this hot market, Pleasanton, CA-based Sunsweet decided to use packaging color and design aimed at appealing to a wider market than it aims for with its well-known prune products.

April 30, 1999

Containers

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Tubed Products, Inc. (Easthampton, MA): James Farley, dir., new business development.

April 30, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

DuPont (Wilmington, DE): Velda Jones-Potter, mgr., national sales of Clysar® shrink film; Sandra S. Van Wormer, vp, Clysar® shrink films business.

April 30, 1999

Cartoning

Glaxo 'Wellcomes' quick-change software

As Glaxo Wellcome's Zebulon, NC, facility packs a wider variety of pharmaceuticals, quick-changeover equipment becomes top priority. Software developed in-house helps the plant reduce changeover times on its solid-dose packaging lines.

April 30, 1999

Closures

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Phoenix Closures (Naperville, IL): Dave Moore, vp.

April 30, 1999