Flexibles

ConAgra debuts aseptic pudding packs

ConAgra Foods, Irvine, CA, claims it’s the first-ever shelf-stable pudding in a single-serve tube pack. Another convenient, tube-packed fun food directed toward kids has been introduced (see packworld.com/go/c049): Hunt’s Snack Pack Squeez ‘n Go Portable Pudding.

August 31, 2002

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Closures

New package puts child safety in the zone

A multilayer tube and “push and turn” closure is helping CCA Industries of East Rutherford, NJ, meet Consumer Product Safety Commission guidelines for products containing lidocaine and dibucaine.

August 31, 2002

Containers

Graphics help new brand break into bath and body

The new “sub-brand” Ohm by Olay from Procter and Gamble, a line of botanical bath and body products, launched this summer. The packaging, with graphics designed by Libby Perszyk Kathman (Cincinnati, OH), ranges from spray bottles to lotion tubes and cartons.

August 31, 2002

Additives, coatings & inks

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

August 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Web Plus: Researching equipment online is not just window shopping

Surfing the Internet is more than a pastime for Another Day Ltd. manager David Lickhalter. It’s an efficient way to research equipment that the San Diego-based pet-supply company needs to package its liquid products.

August 31, 2002

Flexibles

Bagger puts zip in radish packs

Radish grower moves from a semiautomatic bagging system using premade zipper bags to an automatic bagger with integrated transdirectional zipper system that automatically applies the zipper material across the film web.

August 31, 2002

Flexibles

Green beans get vf/f/s treatment

Pennsylvania produce marketer teams up with key suppliers to develop a customized vf/f/s solution for a complex film that incorporates an unusual mesh component.

August 31, 2002

Cartoning

Bringin' 'em back for more

Engineers from two packaged goods manufacturers, one based in Illinois and one in North Carolina, found more than enough at Pack Expo 2000 to bring them back in 2002.

August 31, 2002

Containers

E-commerce can enhance role of packaging distributor!

That’s the conclusion of Dr. Barry Lawrence of Texas A&M, a distribution systems specialist, who sees a changing role for packaging distributors.

August 31, 2002

Flexibles

Kauai brings coffee packing in-house

An auger filler mounted over a vf/f/s machine equipped with a thermal-transfer printer was all it took at Kauai Coffee Co. to bring coffee packaging in-house.

August 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

P&G, Wal-Mart on CorrExpo program

When merchandising executives from top retailers speak, packaging people tend to listen.

July 31, 2002

Closures

Tube Council winners

Lise Watier Cosmétiques’ Eau de Mer lotion was judged The Best Overall Tube in the 2001 Tube of the Year Awards conducted by The Tube Council (Montclair, NJ).

July 31, 2002

Containers

Vitamin gumballs bounce into new canister

Bloomfield, CT-based Amerifit Nutrition released its Vitaball Vitamin Gumball product to the warehouse club market.

July 31, 2002