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Beverage

Four elected to Packaging Hall of Fame

Dr. Raymond Bourque, Audrey Marsh King, Stanley Kopecky, and Lawrence Starr will be inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame during a November 7 awards reception at the Hyatt McCormick Hotel in Chicago. The ceremony will be held in conjunction with Pack Expo International 2004, sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute.

July 31, 2004

Beverage

Training for mechanics, technicians, engineers

Worth noting are upcoming training opportunities and newly developed resources for automation professionals and industrial maintenance mechanics.

July 31, 2004

Beverage

OMAC/WBF update

Ongoing efforts to harmonize the standards being developed by the OMAC Packaging Workgroup and the World Batch Forum took a significant step forward at an August 17-18 meeting at Pfizer’s Peapack, NJ, facility.

July 31, 2004

Beverage

New PEN bottles in Denmark

Danish Brewery Group (DBG) has launched its Royal Pilsner and Royal Classic beers in new refillable 38-cL bottles of polyethylene napthalate (PEN), made by Rexam Petainer in Lidköping, Sweden.

July 31, 2004

Beverage

Closure energizes Olay vitamins

Consumer convenience is behind Pharmavite LLC’s use of Weatherchem’s NutraFlapper® closure for an Olay-brand vitamin supplement line introduced in August ’03.

July 31, 2004

Conveying & Product Handling

Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor

A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x81¼2’ container is quenching the thirst of troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Started up in fall 2003, the 25 bpm self-contained line provides 1.5-L bottled water on-demand for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) troops and support personnel, according to AAFES Food and Theatre program manager Tom Wilson.

July 31, 2004

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Cognex: powerful inspection tools for flexible packaging

Cognex machine vision systems locate distorted patterns that are difficult to recognize.

July 31, 2004

Beverage

Miller Brewing extends label pact with NorthStar

Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, has extended its contract with NorthStar Print Group, Watertown, WI, under which NorthStar remains Miller’s sole label supplier.

July 31, 2004

Prepared & Canned Foods

McDonald's 'dips' into sliced apple bags

A plastic pouch containing 2.4 oz of ready-to-eat apple slices is part of McDonald’s new New Happy Meal Choices, aimed at providing parents and children with mix-and-match menu options.

July 31, 2004

Beverage

WBF and OMAC are bringing standards to a line near you

A drug maker’s ability to qualify new equipment could be significantly reduced if committee work now being carried out by the World Batch Forum and the OMAC Packaging Workgroup comes to fruition.

June 30, 2004

Beverage

Are you minding the dollar stores?

Packaging machinery OEMs and their customers are bound to be affected by the rapid growth of dollar stores across the country.

June 30, 2004

Beverage

Sentry: first with all OMAC Guidelines

Sentry’s new family of tray, pad, case packing and film overwrapping machines is the first designed in the US around the OMAC Packaging Guidelines

June 30, 2004