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Aseptic PE/EVOH/PE bottles hold shelf-stable infant formula
Infant formula isn't a category where you normally find a lot of packaging innovation. But this summer has brought us two interesting packaging advances in the "mother's milk" replacement business.
September 30, 1998
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Conveying & accumulation
Bringing a glacier to the consumer
On Vancouver Island, a brand new PET bottling line fed by an in-line stretch blow-molding machine is packaging right from a glacier some of the purest water on the planet.
September 30, 1998
Containers
Career fairs: How some companies 'precruit' (sidebar)
How recruiters work the career fair
September 30, 1998
Flexibles
Career fairs: How some companies 'precruit'
Many companies look for packaging professionals at schools with packaging curricula, and some successful companies begin the process before students even graduate.
September 30, 1998
Containers
Kraft keeps recruiting pipeline flowing
Recruiting of new packaging people-high-quality, skilled personnel-is an increasingly difficult job these days, thanks to the low unemployment rates that have spurred this economy.
September 30, 1998
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Dissimilar packs share honors
A powder medication inhaler and unusual bags for an ice melter and for pet food earn recognition at DuPont's 12th awards competition.
September 30, 1998
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
An open-and-shut case for reclosability
Pharmaceutical company Galderma Laboratories switches to a reclosable clamshell for its sample size of prescription topical medicines that's 35% cheaper than before.
September 30, 1998
Closures
Miracle Whip squeezes into new bottle
"Squeeze," "Just Flip and Squeeze!" and "New Package" violators on the front label of a container for Kraft® Miracle Whip® make it apparent to consumers that this is a new bottle for a well-known salad dressing.
September 30, 1998
Containers
Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Fold-Pak Corp., a subsidiary of Gulf States Paper Corp. (Tuscaloosa, AL), and Dopaco (Downington, PA) have entered into a joint venture for the mfg.
September 30, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Bottled water labeling?
Americans are drinking more bottled water, many believing it to be more healthful, but they may be missing out on the fluoride needed to combat tooth decay, warns the Chicago Dental Society.
September 30, 1998
Containers
Spam wears two-pc container well
In July '98, Austin, MN-based Hormel Foods began a transition from three-piece to two-piece aluminum cans for its well-known SPAM® line. Hormel's aluminum can and end supplier, Crown Cork & Seal (Philadelphia, PA), began production on an easy-open (EZO) two-piece drawn-and-ironed can for 12-oz sizes; a 7-oz two-piece can will be in production soon, according to Phillip Minerich, research scientist at Hormel.
September 30, 1998
Flexible packaging
Innovations in plastics help foods flourish
Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.
September 30, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
KISS Packaging Systems a div. of the Frain Group: Volumetric pail filler
KISS Packaging System's (LaPorte, IN) stainless-steel semi-automatic positive- displacement filler accurately fills water-thin to high-viscosity products drip- free, says KISS.
August 31, 1998
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