Prepared & Canned Foods

Packaging technology on display

Once again the DuPont Awards competition attracted the best and the brightest where advancements in plastic packaging technology are concerned.

August 31, 2003

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Beverage

Ty Nant makes another packaging splash

This summer, Ty Nant Spring Water turned to Rexam plc to produce its latest bottles, a 375- and a 750-mL glass bottle, for its new upscale Tau brand.

August 31, 2003

Beverage

Large-character, medium resolution printer

Videojet released its Marsh® 320 large-character ink-jet printer. This modular large-character ink-jet printing system uses micro-valve technology to deliver quality print up to 1” in height.

August 31, 2003

Beverage

Online deadline approaching for PEF Hall of Fame vote

September 1 is the deadline to cast a ballot in the 2003 voting for the Packaging Hall of Fame. The nominees accepted by the Packaging Education Forum (PEF) include Packaging World’s Arnie Orloski Jr., William E. Archibald, William Richardson Armstrong, Richard G. Lee, Louis Rupp, and Daniel Toner.

July 31, 2003

Beverage

'Liberty' can flies for Folgers

As America celebrated its birthday this summer, Procter & Gamble launched a limited-edition "Liberty Collector’s Can" that holds 39 oz of ground coffee. The can is just now phasing out of the market.

July 31, 2003

Beverage

Barrier bottle to broaden Apple & Eve markets

Apple & Eve’s new monolayer barrier PET bottle from Graham Packaging offers the juice packer new ways to market its single-serve 10-oz bottles of juice.

July 31, 2003

Dairy

Labels propel Crush promotion

Specially labeled soft drink bottles are playing an integral role in an Internet-based promotional contest for Canadian consumers of Crush carbonated soft drinks marketed by Cadbury Beverages Canada.

July 31, 2003

Beverage

Barrier bottle to broaden Apple & Eve markets

Apple & Eve’s new monolayer barrier PET bottle from Graham Packaging offers the juice packer new ways to market its single-serve 10-oz bottles of juice.

July 31, 2003

Beverage

Q&A: Kraft's team approach to Pack Expo

One way Kraft Foods of Glenview, IL, stays on top of packaging technology is through Pack Expo trade shows, sponsored each year by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute. John Ruff, senior vice president, R& D and Quality for Kraft North America, shares his ideas on the value of a Pack Expo trade show.

July 31, 2003

Beverage

Creating a brand personality

When Coca-Cola's Minute Maid Co. decided to launch its Simply Orange orange juice, it turned to MLR Design for graphics and Lipson Allport Glass & Associates for structural design.

July 31, 2003

Conveying & Product Handling

Back to Vegas for more gear

A Mexican manufacturer of cleaning products and a Utah marketer of bottled water both will return to Pack Expo Las Vegas this October.

July 31, 2003

Prepared & Canned Foods

Enhancing a brand with happy cows

Armed with a design concept statement that ‘happy cows give good milk,’ label converter Fort Dearborn Co. came up with labels that build brand equity for Oberweis Dairy.

July 31, 2003

Beverage

ReaLemon gets distinctive shapes

Mott’s ReaLemon and ReaLime juices now don store shelves in green-stippled PET bottles molded with a distinctive lemon or lime shape in their neck to identify the product and brand.

July 31, 2003