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Beverage

Starbucks toasts brand extension

Starbucks Coffee Liqueur’s glass bottle is shaped as a cocktail shaker to extend Starbucks’ brand equity to after-dinner cocktails, winning the Glass Packaging Institute’s Clear Choice Award.

March 31, 2006

Dairy

Machine builders and buyers talk turkey at Ipack-Ima

A first-of-its-kind forum, held in conjunction with Italy’s packaging show, was aimed at improving relationships between builders and buyers of packaging machinery.

March 31, 2006

Beverage

Bottled water under fire

Environmentalists are taking aim at the $9 billion bottled water industry, which has enjoyed nearly double-digit growth for the past 10 years. The Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental group, published a research study critical of bottled water for producing unnecessary garbage and using vast quantities of energy in bottle production and packaging and transport of the product.

March 31, 2006

Dairy

EU deregulates package sizes

The European Parliament deregulated package sizes for most pre-packaged products, except for staple beverages and foods. Manufacturers and retailers will be able to sell deregulated products in customized containers rather than in sizes mandated by member states or EU laws.

March 31, 2006

Beverage

Wyeth aims for OEE

Capturing plant metrics is a key priority these days at the Richmond, VA, plant of Madison, NJ-based Wyeth, one of the leading pharmaceutical and healthcare products companies in the world.

March 31, 2006

Beverage

Foster's launches lager in aluminum bottles

In January 2006, the Foster’s Group Limited, beer market leader in Australia, introduced a new packaging option for its Crown Lager brand—12-oz aluminum bottles from CCL Container.

March 31, 2006

Beverage

Companies

Pro Mach has acquired the product line and certain assets of Mahaffy & Harder Engineering Co.

March 31, 2006

Beverage

Drikette Paper

Drikette® Desiccant Paper features millions of adsorbent particlescontained in a semi-rigid cellulose fiber matrix. The desiccant paperenables fast drying and extraordinary versatility in package design.

February 28, 2006

Beverage

Humonitor Humidity Indicator Cards

Humonitor® Humidity Indicator Cards tell at a glance if moisture withinsealed containers or closed spaces is at an acceptable level. Humonitorcards help monitor desiccant activity and are ideal for use with desiccantsin any application where moisture control is critical.

February 28, 2006

Beverage

DriCap Cartridges

DriCap® is a safe, non-toxic and non-dusting sorbent cartridge thatprovides exceptional moisture adsorbing capacity in a small space. With anumber of desiccant types available, versatile DriCap can protect a varietyof packaged products from the effects of moisture including caking, mildew,fermentation, potency loss and decreased shelf life.

February 28, 2006

Beverage

Wyeth aims for OEE

Capturing plant metrics is a key priority these days at the Richmond, VA, plant of Madison, NJ-based Wyeth, one of the leading pharmaceutical and health-care products companies in the world.

February 28, 2006

Pet Food

What Hershey seeks in packaging machinery

Platform stability and software that’s less costly and more user friendly.

February 28, 2006