Prepared & Canned Foods

Diagnostic fluids switch to plastic containers

Medical diagnostics maker bioMérieux pioneers switch to multilayer plastic bottles for blood culture samples.

April 30, 2004

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Beverage

Supplement packs deliver healthy results

Custom structure helps Pharmanex meet multiple needs for its packets of LifePak dietary supplements.

April 30, 2004

Bakery & Snack

AIMCAL winners shine

Canada Bread and Celplast won Package of the Year in the annual competition of AIMCAL. But other packs were also honored.

April 30, 2004

Prepared & Canned Foods

Printers help bottom line become healthy

Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating, a maker of nutritious meals, replaces preprinted labels with in-house printed labels that reduce cost and waste.

April 30, 2004

Prepared & Canned Foods

Label limbo

Uncertainty over country-of-origin labeling regulations leaves food packagers wondering what’s next.

April 30, 2004

Beverage

Putting a wrap on shelf life

A new USDA-formulated all-fruit bar achieves impressive shelf life thanks in part to its high-barrier wrapper that was initially developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to offer a healthy alternative to traditional military meals.

April 30, 2004

Confection & Candy

PPC Gold award winners

Following is a list of companies that won Gold Awards at the annual PPC competition.

April 30, 2004

Beverage

Packaging strategies add up on Coca-Cola's bottom line

More often than not, a faxed press release concerning a packager’s financial results ends up in the circular file. Upon further review, however, frequent mentions of packaging in the Coca-Cola Co.’s 16-page, first-quarter earnings-per-share report at least merited a quick read.

March 31, 2004

Beverage

OMAC/WBF working session

Two leading manufacturing industry organizations—World Batch Forum and Open Modular Architecture Controls Users Group—will hold their first working session May 19 as part of their effort to coordinate their development of manufacturing standards for machine and batch control.

March 31, 2004

Beverage

Looking at labeling issues

Carb labeling, dietary guidelines, and labeling issues dominate this regulatory update from Washington correspondent Cecelia Blalock.

March 31, 2004

Beverage

Unimark named Plastic News' Processor of the Year

Unimark Plastics is the winner of Plastics News’ Processor of the Year Award, the newspaper announced Feb. 2 at its Executive Forum in Summerlin.

March 31, 2004

Prepared & Canned Foods

Booked 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. Carter and published by HarperCollins.

March 31, 2004

Beverage

Irish coffee channels freshness

Bewley’s Ltd. in Ireland is the first to preserve freshness with a cost-saving method that eliminates degassing valves and boosts bagging speeds 10%.

March 31, 2004