Confection & Candy

Package-powered candy

Melate Confections, San Diego, CA, offers a sweet wake-up call for consumers: Chargers chocolate-covered coffee confections, packaged in an original tin replica of a size D battery.

March 31, 2004

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Bakery & Snack

Cal Poly's value-added Klear Keg

A clear barrier keg made of PET with EVOH coating is one of several concepts students at Cal Poly have developed.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

OEE saves Kraft millions

Walt Staehle of Kraft Foods presented a compelling overview of that firm’s recent efforts to maximize operating efficiency across all 48 of its plants in North America.

February 29, 2004

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Compact vision system

The NI CVS-1455 compact vision system from National Instruments is said to deliver nearly twice the processing power and 4 times the storage capacity of the NI CVS-1454 system released in July.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Kraft cites savings gained through focus on OEE

At a February 26 Rockwell Automation Food and Beverage Forum in Itasca, IL, Walt Staehle of Kraft Foods presented a compelling overview of that firm’s recent efforts to maximize operating efficiency across all 48 of its plants in North America.

February 29, 2004

Prepared & Canned Foods

Publishing designs

Seven of Compass Design's designs are published in the Big Book of New Design Ideas, a full-color, 384-page, hardbound book edited by David E.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Rx packaging: The view from Italy

Join Packaging World's Technical Editor Rick Lingle in a recap of an early March tour of pharmaceutical companies in Italy’s "Packaging Valley."

February 29, 2004

Beverage

PEF makes final distribution

The Packaging Education Forum announced that as part of its final distribution of funds to support packaging education, it is distributing $400ꯠ in assets to packaging programs at six universities.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Sustainable packaging coalition progress

The next meeting of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition is scheduled for June 23-24 in Seattle, WA, and will be hosted by Starbucks Coffee Co.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Contoured can plays in Australia

In mid-December, Melbourne, Australia-based Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) launched a limited-edition Australian cricket shirt shape embossed on the back of a contoured can for its Victoria Bitter (VB) beer.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Aspirin sachet wins competition

A high-barrier laminated sachet for a granular Aspirin Effect product from Bayer Vital, Leverkusen, Germany, was chosen as Foil Pack of the Year by the European Aluminum Foil Assn.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Golden Cylinder Awards

The Gravure Assn. of America recognized the “Best of the Best” in gravure printing at its 20th anniversary of the Golden Cylinder Awards. Five packaging winners were Nordenia U.S.A.

February 29, 2004

Beverage

Pipeline: Innovation continues

As I wrote last month, I’m still trying to clean 2003 out of my office, and there were a few other packages that bear examination, although with relatively modest detail.

February 29, 2004