Conveying & Product Handling

Jar line is a royal flush

Universal Foods' Red Star Yeast Div. boosts production five-fold with a new jar line. Nitrogen flushing consistently reduces headspace oxygen below 1%.

October 31, 1998

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PFW): Page 474

Conveying & Product Handling

Jar line is a royal flush (sidebar)

Drop packer provides smooth operation

October 31, 1998

Dairy

Packaging World's experts

The following list of packaging professionals, human resources officers, recruiters and industry observers are the people who made possible our special report on The Staffing Struggle.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Lilly likes PEN for veterinary product

A new treatment for respiratory problems in pigs and chickens is administered in the field, where the breakability of glass packaging is a concern. A homopolymer PEN bottle provides a shatter-resistant answer and delivers all the shelf life needed.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Small machine is big business for coffee roaster

A compact form/fill/seal machine makes a packaging engineer out of an entrepreneur and launches a whole new business in the process.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Packaging keeps evolving...from able, to active, to anticipating

Are you evolved?

October 31, 1998

Dairy

Employee retention through TLC

Want to keep packaging professionals from seeking opportunities elsewhere? Demonstrate clearly how much you want them in your 'career tent.'

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Veryfine grabs for added sales with new bottles

The latest hot-filled plastic bottle from Veryfine has a unique grip molded into the sidewalls just above the top of the colorful full-wrap film label.

October 31, 1998

Prepared & Canned Foods

Palm Beach style for every consumer

Lake Success, NY-based Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons, makers of AriZona beverages, is introducing a new malt liquor product called Palm Beach. The two cocktail-style drink flavors, Margarita and Cosmopolitan, are in frosted-glass, flask-style bottles.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Coke promotion shifts into high gear

Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is revving up for the NASCAR auto racing season with a series of nine commemorative 8-oz glass bottles. Eight of the bottles feature heat-transfer decorating bearing the face of the Coca-Cola Family drivers.

October 31, 1998

Beverage

A beer for all seasons

What would the changing seasons be without packaging that reflects and celebrates the change?

October 31, 1998

Beverage

Trip leasing program

Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA) has developed new literature outlining its trip leasing program for users of IBCs and drums. Called "It's as easy as 1-2-3," the new brochure outlines the process companies can take to trip-lease containers for industrial applications.

September 30, 1998

Dairy

Keep work interesting, and they'll stay

To keep good packaging professionals, say the experts Packaging World talked to, challenge them with interesting work. Let them be creative, autonomous, even entrepreneurial.

September 30, 1998