Containers

Are packaging jobs secure?

How will packaging jobs hold up to recession, consolidation from mergers and acquisitions, and the war against terrorism? Packagers respond via an exclusive Packworld.com survey.

January 31, 2002

Sustainable Packaging: Page 558

Reusable/Returnable

Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Drop packer

On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, filled, capped, and labeled, bottles are drop-packed into reusable plastic crates.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Krones, Inc.: Krones Compact Line Concept

The new Krones Compact Line was in operation at the Krones AG In-house Exhibition held November 10-12, 2003 in Neutraubling, Germany.

December 31, 2001

Home

Printer presses onward with unitizing (sidebar)

Materialistic thinking=savings

December 31, 2001

Labels

Clearly apart from the competition

Knowing it wasn’t the first to launch single-serve milks and juices in plastic bottles, this dairy made sure its new PET bottle would stand out and promote the brand.

December 31, 2001

Flexible packaging

IOPP 2001 AmeriStar Awards

Packaging World highlights the Best of Show winner and the 13 Best of Category winners of The Institute of Packaging Professionals, Naperville, IL, 2001 AmeriStar Awards.

December 31, 2001

Flexibles

P&G's new angle on tortilla chips

Procter & Gamble has unveiled another intriguing new plastic package. Just months ago, the Cincinnati-based company began test-marketing 0.81 oz of Pringles in a single-serve cup injection-molded of polypropylene (see PW, Oct. ’01, p. 2, or packworld.com/go/pringlepak). This time it’s Torengos Tortilla Chips in an 8 ½’’ tall white triangular container with 2 ¾’’ sides.

December 31, 2001

Reusable/Returnable

Corrugated protects fruit shipments

Three tree fruit producers participated in a recent field test that revealed that new corrugated “common footprint containers” provided the best protection for fragile fruit like peaches and nectarines, with less bruising during transit.

December 31, 2001

Adhesives/tape

Euro lawncare products drum up sales

Canisters made of recycled paperboard have been making inroads throughout Europe as a primary package that provides stackability and pleasing graphics for fertilizers.

December 31, 2001

Consumer packaged goods

Industry watch: Achievements

Tetra Pak (Vernon Hills, IL) was honored with the Association of Post Consumer Plastics Recyclers’ Partners for Change Award. —Meyers Label (Minneapolis, MN) is the 2001 recipient of ¶Hormel Foods Corp.’s Hormel #1 Award.

December 31, 2001

Sustainability

Industry watch: Companies

—BluePrint Automation B.V. (Woerden, the Netherlands), with U.S. operations headquartered in Colonial Heights, VA, held an open house at its Woerden facility as a way to introduce its latest innovations in end-of-line packaging automation.

December 31, 2001

Sustainability

Rules & Regs: Canadian regs not likely to affect packaging

Packaging is likely to get a pass on a new requirement for environmental assessment of products regulated under Canadian Food and Drugs Act. According to the New Substances Notification program under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, as of September 13, 2001, products regulated by F&DA (biologics, food additives, novel foods, personal care products, and cosmetics) must meet environmental assessment standards, as well as health and safety criteria.

December 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc: Package tracking software

The Internet Tracking Recovery and Asset Management (iTRAM™) from Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA) is an application service provider for tracking returnable packaging.

November 30, 2001