Prepared & Canned Foods

Flexible packaging reigns

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

August 31, 2002

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Confection & Candy

Networks progress amid obstacles (sidebar)

Packagers intrigued by equipment monitoring

August 31, 2002

Conveying & Product Handling

Bringin' 'em back for more

Engineers from two packaged goods manufacturers, one based in Illinois and one in North Carolina, found more than enough at Pack Expo 2000 to bring them back in 2002.

August 31, 2002

Dairy

InterBev draws a diverse beverage crowd

The beverage industry’s largest all-beverage trade show is expected to draw representatives from all beverage categories to view the offerings of some 600 exhibitors.

August 31, 2002

Beverage

E-commerce can enhance role of packaging distributor!

That’s the conclusion of Dr. Barry Lawrence of Texas A&M, a distribution systems specialist, who sees a changing role for packaging distributors.

August 31, 2002

Beverage

Kauai brings coffee packing in-house

An auger filler mounted over a vf/f/s machine equipped with a thermal-transfer printer was all it took at Kauai Coffee Co. to bring coffee packaging in-house.

August 31, 2002

Beverage

Pewter isn't only for tankards

EOS Estate Winery crafts a specialty port wine that’s decorated with a pewter label imported from France.

August 31, 2002

Beverage

PEF announces 2002 Hall of Fame inductees

The Packaging Education Forum (PEF) will induct five career packaging professionals into the Packaging Hall of Fame during its annual Packaging Leadership Awards ceremonies on Nov. 5th.

August 31, 2002

Beverage

EPI Labelers announces death of founder

On August 8, EPI Labelers (New Freedom, PA) regretfully announced that its founder James P. Vonderhorst died Wednesday, August 7, as the result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident.

July 31, 2002

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