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Beverage

INTERNET SALES BENEFITS PROTECTIVE PACKAGING

Expanding Internet and mail order catalog sales will help protective packaging demand increase nearly 5% annually to $3 billion in 2006. That’s according to The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based market research firm.

July 31, 2002

Beverage

EDUCATION: Packaging grads win trip to Italy

In June, six recent college graduates of packaging programs traveled to Italy for two weeks as winners of the inagural Italian Packaging Technology award.

July 31, 2002

Beverage

When robots take over: A worker's tale

Bonnie Dean works in the packaging operations at Gray and Co., Hart, MI, makers of Queen Anne chocolate-covered cherries. She was one of 10 employees whose duties changed dramatically in early 2001 when the company installed robotic case packers.

July 31, 2002

Dairy

'Unpasteurized' policy

Every now and then, my cynical gene becomes recessive, and I become upset by an occurrence that, normally, I would simply shake my head at and overlook.

July 31, 2002

Dairy

Transforming the Egyptian dairy market

IGI aims to grow a market for packaged, branded milk in a country where 85% of the milk that’s bought isn’t even pasteurized let alone packaged. Aseptic packs are key.

July 31, 2002

Prepared & Canned Foods

Monobloc 'cleans up' for Cyprus company

Cyprus-based beverage producer Lanitis Bros. Ltd. is first to use a monobloc bottle-blowing, -filling, and -capping system for fresh, pasteurized milk in PET.

July 31, 2002

Dairy

Tube packs tap timely trend (sidebar)

An old hand at tubes

July 31, 2002

Beverage

Polar Ice earns design award

The Glass Packaging Institute honored Corby Distilleries, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with the 2002 Packaging Design Clear Choice award for Corby’s Polar Ice vodka brand.

July 31, 2002

Soups, Condiments, Sauces, Spices, Dips & Dressings

2002 GPI Clear Choice Awards

Packaging World highlights Gold winners of the Glass Packaging Institute 2002 awards for innovative glass packaging design.

July 31, 2002

Prepared & Canned Foods

Flexible packaging reigns

Flexible packages predominate in this year’s DuPont Awards competition. Innovation in biodegradable packaging and convenience also shine.

July 31, 2002

Beverage

General Mills pops a promo

From June to August, General Mills’ Pop Secret microwave popcorn packages feature a Loews Cineplex discount card.

July 31, 2002

Beverage

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Depalletizing bulk bottles

Bulk bottles for water are automatically depalletized by a Priority One Packaging Machinery (www.prioritypackaging.com) Pro-Pal bulk bottle depalletizer at the front end of the PET line.

June 30, 2002