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Readers write back
Recent Packaging World stories-on outsourcing, reader salaries, increased USDA/FDA scrutiny, and Arizona Beverages' uniquely shaped 'can'-spur readers to comment.
February 28, 1998
Contract Packaging: Page 123
Contract Packaging
Lucky in cans
A spin-off from Lucky(TM) Brand Dungarees, Lucky Brand Fragrances started reaching store shelves in October. The line uses unusual secondary packaging, spiral-wound composite cans, to carry through brand image.
January 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Materials and container development lead outsourced functions
Development of packaging materials and containers and the graphics that go on them are the functions most often outsourced, say Packaging World readers. However, packaging machinery selection, packaging line design and integration all make the Top Ten.
November 30, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
For Arizona, packaging is the medium and message
The secret behind a series of drop-dead gorgeous packages? Packaging decisions are made at the highest levels of a company that's willing to spend big.
November 30, 1997
Flexible packaging
'Alternative' packs milk sales
In an effort to recapture market share lost to rival beverages, milk processors are turning to more contemporary containers-with strong sales results.
October 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Unit-dose packaging for the garden
Consumers crave convenience, so this lawn and garden products manufacturer serves it up: single-dose pouches of home insecticides.
October 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Shaped 'can' rewrites packaging line rules
Several unorthodoxies on the filling line make it possible for this soft, squeezable, straight-walled polypropylene container to resist paneling after hot-filling. Also new is a first-of-its-kind on-line shrink label application in a bottling plant.
October 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
BrainForest stands out at Pack Expo West
Sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, Pack Expo West 97 drew 12겞 visitors to Las Vegas last month, up from 9걽 at the inaugural Pack Expo West in '95.
October 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Decas does cranberries elegantly
Early tests showed real promise, so Decas Cranberry forged ahead with a stand-up, zippered pouch. Gravure-printed graphics in seven colors project premium quality image.
September 30, 1997
Contract Packaging
Canned marketing
Last month it was Pepsi/Frito-Lay snacks in a can for vending machines (see PW, Sept. '97, p. 4). What else does the future hold for automated vending?
September 30, 1997
Flexibles
Fruit snack comes in a 'nifty' cup
Introduced in late August at 7-Eleven stores across the country was Sunfresh® FruitJelite(TM), a fruit gelatin snack in a colorful textured cup and foil lid.
September 30, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Monoblock propels Skyy into new markets
Filler/capper monoblock machine for miniature bottles of spirits enables Frank-Lin Distillers to permit customers like Skyy Spirits to enter the mini market on the West Coast.
August 31, 1997
Cartoning
Blister packer feeds three different tablets for Amway
Amway's Nutrilite Div. blister-packs three dissimilar, tough-to-feed vitamin tablets on one blister card. New equipment provides substantial savings over contract packaging.
August 31, 1997
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