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Prepared & Canned Foods

A real 'grab bag'

September brings a change in color to Door County, and with it comes this grab bag of Pipeline topics.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Steel can packs innovation and functionality

An elegant, curved shape and a subtle, embossed image of a coffee cup, saucer, and rising steam are the first things you notice about J.J. Darboven’s new steel coffee can for Warca-brand ground or bean coffee.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Cups from corn quench thirsts here and abroad

What do Alken-Maes Breweries in Belgium, Tipperary Natural Mineral Water in Ireland, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado, and the National Mall in Washington have in common?

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Miller Brewing extends label pact with NorthStar

Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, extended its contract with NorthStar Print Group, under which NorthStar remains Miller’s sole label supplier. The new contract extends the relationship to incorporate all bottle labels, including pressure-sensitive labels.

August 31, 2004

Bakery & Snack

Renewable resources ride a wave of momentum

Tulane University calls its athletic teams the Green Wave, but there’s a green wave that’s building momentum in the packaging community: the increasing use of sustainable packaging made from renewable resources.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Design for new Labatt Select

Labatt Select, a new low-carbohydrate Canadian light beer, enlisted Shikatani Lacroix Brandesign for its packaging design needs when breaking into the quickly growing U.S. low-carb beer category.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

People

Roman M. Eckols was named president and CEO of B&H Labeling Systems.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Emballage: it's all about innovation

Held every other year, Emballage is coming November 22-26 to Paris-Nord Villepinte in France. Show sponsors expect 2귔 exhibitors to be on hand.

August 31, 2004

Dairy

Diamond Award Winners--best of the best (sidebar)

Folger’s AromaSeal Shaped Plastic Coffee Canister(see: packworld.com/go/c108)The Procter & Gamble Co./Product Ventures, Ltd.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Package security demands linking of strategy, technology

Tactics such as DNA taggants and color-shifting inks have to be married with strategies that include tight supply-chain security.

August 31, 2004

Beverage

Passing data horizontally from processing to packaging

Treating processing and packaging as disjointed tasks hurts efficiency and retards speed to market. New views of controls and integration could bring the two closer together.

August 31, 2004

Dairy

Drive Integration with Standards

As companies find many reasons to integrate data from process manufacturing and packaging with each other and with the rest of the company’s business applications, engineers are turning to standards and models from the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA), OMAC Packaging Workgroup and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for help.

August 31, 2004