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Sustainability
EPA caps VOCs in products
Manufacturers will be required to reformulate, repackage or retire some products. However, most national brands already comply.
December 31, 1998

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Tamper-evident machinery
Software helps SmithKline gain compliance
New software helps SmithKline Beecham comply with FDA GMPs for creating and disseminating packaging specifications. Software permits validation of packaging spec dissemination process, virtually eliminating exposure to compliance violations. Part one of two.
December 31, 1998
Packaging specs such as this one, including container drawings from vendors, are maintained and accessed electronically by those
Secondary Packaging
New press gains prove more than cosmetic
A new sheet-fed press at All Packaging boosts the converter's efficiency, speed, uptime and print quality. Neoteric Cosmetics is the first to benefit, obtaining vibrant folding cartons for its retail cosmetics.
December 31, 1998
All Packaging?s operations manager Bob Nobles, vice president John Chaisson, and president Ken Pepper (left to right in the phot
Containers
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Tubed Products (Easthampton, MA) has opened a new 90ꯠ sq' facility in Oxnard, CA. The increased production capability will service pharmaceutical, cosmetics and health and beauty product manufacturers on the West Coast.
December 31, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Small package poses big challenge
Ecoly Intl. was in a sticky situation. The company needed to downsize its 10-oz Oak Tree Finishing Aerated Hairspray into a 1.7-oz version for use in a travel kit, without losing rich package graphics and extensive copy.
December 31, 1998
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Gallo gets shapely
Two new bottle shapes from Ernest & Julio Gallo of Modesto, CA, are shaking things up in the retail wine rack. The brands involved are Gossamer Bay and Ernest & Julio Gallo.
November 30, 1998
The Ernest & Julio brand takes an hourglass shape in two sizes (right). For Gossamer Bay (below left) only the 1.5-L bottle has
Sustainability
Brewers pouring into plastic
Brewers around the world have been on the fence about plastic bottles. Suddenly they're commercializing a variety of plastic barrier structures.
November 30, 1998
Black-suited bodyguards (left) are a highly visible component in Karlsberg?s efforts to promote its 12;2-L plastic bottle. Poin
Closures
Miller's plastic beer bottle solves first of three marketplace puzzles
Those of us who thought Anheuser-Busch would be the first American brewer to market beer in plastic bottles at retail were surprised when, in early November, A-B turned out to be no more than a very interested observer as Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, commercially introduced three beers in unique, five-layer, oxygen-scavenging plastic bottles from Owens-Illinois' Continental PET Technologies, Inc.
November 30, 1998
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Conveying & accumulation
Equipment brews benefits for Anheuser-Busch
From depalletizing to shipping, nearly identical packaging equipment on two new lines boosts efficiency at the brewer's Houston, TX, plant.
November 30, 1998
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Filling/capping, dry
All-Fill Inc: Powder filling system
All-Fill's (Exton, PA) automatic powder filling system runs at speeds from 35 to 80 cpm on rigid container filling lines. A checkweigher directs filling heads to increase or decrease fill amount.
November 30, 1998
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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Creative compensation keeps packaging people
To attract good packaging people, companies must pay top wages without leaving behind existing packaging employees. Alternative compensation practices can also help.by David Newcorn, Senior Editor
November 30, 1998
To attract and keep talent like Herman Poon, vice president of business development, bottled water startup Natural Glacial Water
Containers
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
CCL Container (Rosemont, IL): James E. Cooper, vp, sales and marketing, tube div.
November 30, 1998
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Silver cleaner polishes its look
Silver Blue's complete overhaul eliminates leakage and breakage while improving esthetics.
November 30, 1998
Consumers can easily tear off Silver Blue?s induction seal and throw it away. A foam liner inside the closure further protects t
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