Dairy

U.S. vintners bubbly over wine agreement with EU

“The Europeans will be out to force the grandfathered California wineries to cease and desist in their use of terms like champagne and bordeaux on their labels.”

May 31, 2006

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PFW): Page 413

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

'Yesterday once more' design bumps sales 7%

4C Foods Corp., Brooklyn, NY, boosted sales 7% for its 4C brand of seasoned salt-free breadcrumbs by refreshing the canister graphics to help reintroduce the long-time product’s benefits to diet-conscious consumers.

May 31, 2006

Fruits & Vegetables

Apple-shaped bottles get plastic version

Watsonville, CA-based apple juice processing company S. Martinelli & Co. has partnered with Graham Packaging Co. L.P. (www.grahampackaging.com) to launch a PET plastic version of its 10-oz apple-shaped glass juice bottle.

May 31, 2006

Beverage

Packaging industry mourns loss of Mark Garvey

Mark Garvey, president and owner of Garvey Corporation, Blue Anchor, NJ, died Monday May 15th at the age of 55.

April 30, 2006

Beverage

Sweet-looking honey container

The patented, trademarked BuzzyBee(tm) container, created by Jeffrey Hand, owner of The Honey Bee Container, Inc. has created a buzz.

April 30, 2006

Beverage

Automation Federation established

The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) has announced that its Executive Board has approved the establishment of The Automation Federation as an umbrella organization under which associations and societies engaged in manufacturing and process automation activities can work more effectively to fulfill their missions.

April 30, 2006

Beverage

EEC forum reports lean, integrated and robotic trends

The Eastern Equipment Committee’s revamped annual forum features such notables as Changeover.com expert John Henry, mechatronic machinery developer Norden Pac and packaging automation innovator ELAU.

April 30, 2006

Beverage

Panel-less, ribless hot-fill PET bottle to launch functional beverage line

MD Drinks is packaging its Function™ line of physician-developed, all natural, nutrient-enhanced beverages in 16.9-oz, PowerFlex™ polyethylene terephthalate bottles from Amcor PET Packaging.

April 30, 2006

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Universal Design, Part II

A toolbox for testing human utility in packaging...

April 30, 2006

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

machinery/inspection

UNIVERSAL DESIGN, PART IIA toolbox for testing human utility in packagingBy Javier de la Fuente, Audrey Whaling, and Laura BixA demographic tidal wave is set to befall consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) and package designers.

April 30, 2006

Beverage

Nitrogen dosing cuts packaging costs

Indian Hills Spring Water implements liquid nitrogen dosing to avert bottle paneling or collapsing and reaps bottle weight-reduction benefits.

April 30, 2006

Beverage

Coming May 23-24

We’ve teamed up with sister publication Automation World to bring you the Packaging Automation Forum, our first conference. Hershey, Coors, Miller, P&G, Astrazeneca, Wyeth, and Lilly are among the firms whose representatives will be delivering presentations.

April 30, 2006

Bakery & Snack

Opening up

“Since I’m from Wisconsin, I do have a chain saw available, but I’m not inclined to go through all the procedures (e.g., chain tensioning) to get it going just to gain access to a package.”

April 30, 2006