Beverage

Polish consumers buy into convenience

When a Polish juice manufacturer was challenged by aseptic paper-packaged imports, it had to respond or risk losing market share.

February 28, 1999

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Fruits & Vegetables

New wine claims

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has approved two statements that winemakers can put on their labels touting the "health effects" of wine, after three years of lobbying by the wine industry.

February 28, 1999

Beverage

EC challenges Denmark

After years of complaints, the European Commission has begun legal infringement proceedings against Denmark. It alleges Denmark's ban on metal cans for soft drinks runs counter to the EC's directive on packaging and packaging waste.

February 28, 1999

Prepared & Canned Foods

Reclosing tool

Clip-it from Weland AB (Smalandsstenar, Sweden) is a multipurpose polyamid tool for reclosing packages. Can be used to reclose waste bags or plastic bags for deep-frozen products.

February 28, 1999

Dairy

Young package forms grow beyond specialty niches

Two relatively new packaging forms--stand-up flexible pouches and non-round composite canisters--are expanding their application horizons and finding a measure of consumer acceptance at retail.

February 28, 1999

Beverage

Putting 'smart systems' to work

Avoid these common pitfalls when implementing a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system on a packaging line.

February 28, 1999

Dairy

Flexible film use wraps up awards

A bag for grease lubricant and a label for bottled juice are just two examples of innovative film uses that earned Golden Mummy and Pyramid awards.

February 28, 1999

Prepared & Canned Foods

Plastic beer bottles: coating or multilayer?

From Carlton and United Breweries of Melbourne, Australia, Lite Ice beer joins Carlton Cold in a plastic bottle. (See Packaging World, December '98, p.

February 28, 1999

Beverage

Supplier news: International agreements

Brio Beverages Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) has entered into a multi-year agreement with The Quaker Oats Co. of Canada Ltd. (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) for the packaging of Gatorade(TM) sports drink at Brio's Vancouver plant.

February 28, 1999

Beverage

Wine labels drink up awards

Recent competition honors labels used by wineries that realize the importance of presenting an appealing package to the consumer.

January 31, 1999

Conveying & Product Handling

Seneca sets its sights on plastic

Seneca Foods was among the first to convert from glass to hot-fillable plastic jars for applesauce. Now it fills both glass and plastic containers on essentially the same line.

January 31, 1999

Conveying & Product Handling

Bottle-to-bottle PET recycling beckons in Germany

German mineral water and soft drink marketer Rosbacher installs a first-of-its-kind stretch blow molder and seeks to popularize closed-loop recycling of PET beverage containers.

January 31, 1999

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Anheuser-Busch operators monitor 'mirrored' lines

Packaging equipment operators on Houston's two new bottling lines evolve from 'machine watchers' to 'process monitors.'

January 31, 1999