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Bakery & Snack

Renewable resources ride a wave of momentum

Tulane University calls its athletic teams the Green Wave, but there’s a green wave that’s building momentum in the packaging community: the increasing use of sustainable packaging made from renewable resources.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Design for new Labatt Select

Labatt Select, a new low-carbohydrate Canadian light beer, enlisted Shikatani Lacroix Brandesign for its packaging design needs when breaking into the quickly growing U.S. low-carb beer category.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

People

Roman M. Eckols was named president and CEO of B&H Labeling Systems.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Emballage: it's all about innovation

Held every other year, Emballage is coming November 22-26 to Paris-Nord Villepinte in France. Show sponsors expect 2귔 exhibitors to be on hand.

August 31, 2004

Dairy

Diamond Award Winners--best of the best (sidebar)

Folger’s AromaSeal Shaped Plastic Coffee Canister(see: packworld.com/go/c108)The Procter & Gamble Co./Product Ventures, Ltd.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Package security demands linking of strategy, technology

Tactics such as DNA taggants and color-shifting inks have to be married with strategies that include tight supply-chain security.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Passing data horizontally from processing to packaging

Treating processing and packaging as disjointed tasks hurts efficiency and retards speed to market. New views of controls and integration could bring the two closer together.

August 31, 2004

Dairy

Drive Integration with Standards

As companies find many reasons to integrate data from process manufacturing and packaging with each other and with the rest of the company’s business applications, engineers are turning to standards and models from the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA), OMAC Packaging Workgroup and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for help.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Partnership Breaks Manufacturing Barriers (sidebar)

Recently OMAC Users Group announced that it would like to work with the World Batch Forum committee on the S88 standard in order to achieve greater interoperability between batch processing systems and packaging systems.

August 31, 2004

Prepared & Canned Foods

Pack Expo visits lead to purchases

Representatives from both a Heinz division and a well known California winery both found the servo-based equipment they needed at Pack Expo International 2002.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

RFID tags becoming easier to read

On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for the near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

RFID tags becoming easier to read

On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for the near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.

August 31, 2004