Flexible packaging

Pouched beverages pour into global markets (sidebar)

While it contains no liquid, Quaker Oats' new "dual pack" for its 100% Natural Granola is bound to make waves in the cold cereal category.

May 31, 1998

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Future shock

Leading packagers chart a course into the 21st century of packaging technology.

May 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Shipper strategies for a global marketplace

How do packagers handle shippers that must be suitable for markets around the world? 3M says standardize on labels, while Hewlett-Packard likes packaging postponement.

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Craft brewer launches bottles for retail

Toronto specialty on-premise brewer parlays recent developments in filling, capping and labeling machines to install a bottling line in its very own basement.

May 31, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Eat-in tray for single-serve cereal

Spotted by PW editors at the recent Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago was a 1.7-oz microwavable single-serve paperboard tray with integral lid for hot cereal from Nature's Path Foods, Delta, British Columbia, Canada.

May 31, 1998

Tamper-evident machinery

From soup to sauce, easy-grip PET

Hot-filled plastic jars with pinched-grip sides took center stage in May as Seneca Foods and Campbell Soup both unveiled intriguing new containers with similar-looking grips.

May 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Net-weigh filling machines

Fill-Weigh (Plainfield, IL) has introduced a portable two-head net-weigh filling machine for jugs and pails of liquid products of varying viscosities.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Closure designing

Injection-molded closure design and manufacture is the subject of a brochure from Stull Closure Technologies (Randolph, NJ). Lists sizes and part numbers for dispensing plugs, captive hinged closures, snip tips, push-pull dispensers, tube caps, twist open/close dispensers, can fitments and miscellaneous closures.

April 30, 1998

Sustainability

Injection-molding resin

Recently commercialized by Chevron Chemical (Houston, TX), HiD9004 is an HDPE injection-molding resin designed primarily for producing 5- to 7-gal pails and their lids.

April 30, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Modular inspection system

New Resina Corp. (Brooklyn, NY) has developed a modular inspection system designed to handle a range of functions-from simple detection of missing cap liners to the full-scale, 100% inspection of capping.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Cosmetics are big winners in packaging competition (sidebar)

Additional NACD award winners: Industrial & Automotive category

April 30, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Bulk weigher/auger filler

AMS Filling Systems' (Malvern, PA) Model A-110-Lynx net weigher bulk-and-dribble auger filler fills powders and granular products as well as thin or viscous liquids, in weights from 1 oz to several hundred lb.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Tubes of the year!

This year's winners of the Tube Council Awards carried a strong health and beauty theme, as well as a focus on innovation.

April 30, 1998