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Bakery & Snack

Creating a sparkling holiday design

Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice Cocktails will be dressed as Nutcrackers this year for the holiday season, thanks to designers at The Bailey Group.

November 30, 2003

Beverage

A grateful label design

Wine packager, Allied Domecq Wines recently turned to Michael Osborne Design to create new packaging for its J.Garcia Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot wines.

November 30, 2003

Conveying & Product Handling

WeserGold: Sterilizing/filling/transporting/discharging for aseptic PET juice bottling line

PET bottle exteriors are sterilized with vaporized hydrogen peroxide during a summer test run on a new aseptic bottling line at WeserGold’s plant in Rinteln, Germany.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

Packaging Leader of the Year announced

The Packaging Education Forum has selected 100-year-old packaging machinery manufacturer, Adolph Gottscho, Inc., as Packaging Leader of the Year for 2003-2004.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

One bottle, two energetic looks

Twin Laboratories, Ronkonkoma, NY, deploys a custom blow-molded bottle from Berlin Packaging for both its ultrafueL and Xtreme product lines. Each beverage is dressed with gravure-printed 2-mil polyvinyl chloride shrink-sleeve labels from Seal-It.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

Q&A: Leadership has its rewards for Adolph Gottscho

During Pack Expo Las Vegas 2003, the Packaging Education Forum honored 100-year-old machinery manufacturer Adolph Gottscho, Inc., as its Packaging Leader of the Year, 2003-2004 (see p. 11). During a recent visit by PW to Gottscho’s Union, NJ, facility, company chairman and president Eva Gottscho shared some of her Hall-of-Fame insights.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

High-performance packaging

Amcor PET Packaging has helped create a custom-designed bottle for a new sports drink that aligns drink manufacturer Calypso with the Umbro sporting goods brand.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

New product not 'Tabu' in aluminum

When Ontario, Canada-based Vincor Intl. began the process of releasing its Tabu Exotic Citrus beverage into the marketplace, it turned to CCL Container to create the signature brushed aluminum, long-neck bottle.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

Companies

Pactiv (Lake Forest, IL) will purchase the plastic packaging assets of Rock-Tenn Co.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

Water, water

Grocery Manufacturers of America filed suit to block a new Maine law requiring that labels of bottled water “identify the name and geographic location of the water body, well, or public water supply from which the water was obtained.” The requirement that a label indicate if water came from a public supply could undermine efforts by a manufacturer to portray its products as significantly different from tap water.

October 31, 2003

Beverage

Pipeline: Improving productivity, or flawed measurements?

This is being written as many of us in packaging prepare for one of the many fall meetings and shows, whether it’s Pack Expo Las Vegas, the TAPPI Corrugated Expo and Conference in Dallas, a PET conference in Atlanta, or even the tag and label makers annual meeting in Boca Raton, FL, just to name a few.

October 31, 2003

Prepared & Canned Foods

Tropicana's juiced about aseptic bottle filling line

New aseptic line opens the door for Tropicana Europe to expand its line of bottled juices and beverages produced at its new plant in Zeebrugge, Belgium.See video

October 31, 2003