Beverage

Small machine is big business for coffee roaster

A compact form/fill/seal machine makes a packaging engineer out of an entrepreneur and launches a whole new business in the process.

October 31, 1998

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Beverage

Packaging keeps evolving...from able, to active, to anticipating

Are you evolved?

October 31, 1998

Dairy

Employee retention through TLC

Want to keep packaging professionals from seeking opportunities elsewhere? Demonstrate clearly how much you want them in your 'career tent.'

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Veryfine grabs for added sales with new bottles

The latest hot-filled plastic bottle from Veryfine has a unique grip molded into the sidewalls just above the top of the colorful full-wrap film label.

October 31, 1998

Prepared & Canned Foods

Palm Beach style for every consumer

Lake Success, NY-based Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, makers of AriZona beverages, is introducing a new malt liquor product called Palm Beach. The two cocktail-style drink flavors, Margarita and Cosmopolitan, are in frosted-glass, flask-style bottles.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Coke promotion shifts into high gear

Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is revving up for the NASCAR auto racing season with a series of nine commemorative 8-oz glass bottles. Eight of the bottles feature heat-transfer decorating bearing the face of the Coca-Cola Family drivers.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

A beer for all seasons

What would the changing seasons be without packaging that reflects and celebrates the change?

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Trip leasing program

Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA) has developed new literature outlining its trip leasing program for users of IBCs and drums. Called "It's as easy as 1-2-3," the new brochure outlines the process companies can take to trip-lease containers for industrial applications.

September 30, 1998

Dairy

Keep work interesting, and they'll stay

To keep good packaging professionals, say the experts Packaging World talked to, challenge them with interesting work. Let them be creative, autonomous, even entrepreneurial.

September 30, 1998

Dairy

Sweetener packaging is sweetened by reusable IBCs

Handling of liquid sweeteners is greatly improved since multiwall corrugated totes were replaced by collapsible, reusable 275-gal IBCs.

September 30, 1998

Prepared & Canned Foods

Innovations in plastics help foods flourish

Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.

September 30, 1998

Dairy

Packagers reach for new technology at Pack Expo

Pack Expo displays the technology of the future at McCormick Place, November 8 to 12. Together with the International Exposition for Food Processors, attendees will roam 1.2 million sq' of exhibits, making it the largest North American packaging show ever.

September 30, 1998

Conveying & Product Handling

What's critical in project documentation?

Documentation was easily the most valued service for turnkey providers. Here's what a variety of engineers seek at the end of projects.

September 30, 1998