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AirLiner
Cargotech
AirLiner is an inflatable insulating liner that converts a corrugated box into a cooler and is designed to ship temperature sensitive and perishable products. Its patented internal heat barrier technology uses layers of reflective barrier film that are heat sealed into proprietary geometry. Inflated with either air or inert gas, this structure forms a unique honeycomb shaped baffle system that inhibits radiation, convection and conduction. In independent testing, AirLiner's gas-filled panels outperformed foam by 18%.
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Amdro Fire Ant Bait
North State Flexibles, LLC
This new stand up pouch with a reclosable zipper replaces a traditional rigid jug with a paper label. Made from a PET/MPET/clear LLDPE structure, this package is less costly than the previous rigid container and provides the appropriate barrier properties for the ant bait product. Eight-color flexographic printing was used on the package's large surface area for branding and graphics. |
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ANF 3.3 Pound Vac Pac Dog Food
Bemis Flexible Packaging
New England Extrusion, Inc.
This vacuum packed dog food package offers several advantages over the previous package. The use of an NEX Grade 8006 metallocene based film offers good flow and caulking ability, has reduced the moisture barrier from 0.65 grams down to 0.02 grams, and the oxygen barriers from 3.0 cc to approximately 0.01 cc. Additionally, the size and shape of the package makes it easy to ship, distribute, and display.
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Apffel's Heritage Coffee Bag
RJR Packaging
Replacing a previous blue coffee bag, this reverse printed polyester, foil laminate 9 color flexible package features an intricate design with multidirectional vignettes, duotones, and special effects to convey a transparent metallic gold. The details within the graphics draw consumers to the coffee bag in order to study it more closely.
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Color Fusion Billboards
Specialty Films & Associates, Inc.
This metallized polyester and LDPE flexible mailer featuring a resealable zipper replaces the traditional white paper mailing envelope. Designed as a mailer but often used as a display or "billboard" in beauty salons, this package has tremendous marketing value due to its high impact graphics which are achieved through rotogravure. Since this package remains intact after opening, it can be used to store other items.
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Disposable Beverage Carafe
International Dispensing Corporation
Consisting of a puncture and burst proof flexible pouch that can withstand high temperatures as well as 6 foot drops, in conjunction with a combination corrugated and rigid plastic outer layer, this ergonomic beverage carafe offers end-users a disposable flexible package that is easy to assemble, fast to fill, and maintains a hot or cold temperature over a 3 hour period.
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E-Z Open
Sealed Air Corporation, Cryovac Division
Representing an easy opening solution for consumers of solid cheese products, this package features an unusual jaw configuration with a tear notch seal that remains fully functional after the bag is vacuum-sealed and shrunk. Eliminating the use of knives and scissors in order to open the package, the consumer simply grasps both ends and pulls them apart in order to open the package.
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Fuze Healthy Refreshment
Alcoa Flexible Packaging
This new line of health beverages features bottles with colorful full body shrink sleeves that are printed four-color process, reverse rotogravure. The four-color process method allowed Alcoa to produce the challenging vertical gradation down the length of each label. Additionally, the fruit, which appear on the sleeve, were pre-distorted on the pre-press artwork to ensure the correct proportions when shrunk.
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Generation Flex
Pechiney Plastic Packaging
A new alternative to Saran-coated film technology in natural cheese processing, Generation Flex is a proprietary EVOH coextrusion technology that has eliminated processing concerns previously associated with EVOH. This coextrusion technology incorporates an EVOH barrier into the cheese film during the lamination process, thereby eliminating the use of Saran-coated films. The process produces a final structure that offers a significantly longer shelf life during typical cheese storage conditions.
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Gillette Venus 3 Lidding Membrane
American Packaging Corporation
The lidding membrane on this package for women's disposable shaving heads is made of a patented 5-layer non-metal structure that extends storage of the razor cartridge in the shower and is resistant to household cleaning agents. The membrane is hermetically sealed to a PP cup and has a PET outer surface for high quality reverse printing. Through extrusion and adhesive lamination, a core of oriented HDPE film with a sealant is also incorporated.
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Intellipac™ Ice Eliminating Case Liner
Apio, Inc.
Currently used to ship fresh broccoli, this packaging uses a flexible case liner and the Intellipac breathable membrane, which is affixed over an opening in the case liner and closed with a hermetic heat seal. The majority of the airflow in and out of the package is regulated through the Intellipac membrane, modifying the atmosphere (ratio of oxygen and carbon dioxide) inside the case liner, and allowing the broccoli to be shipped without ice.
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Kirkland Signature Ravioli
Nordenia, U.S.A., Inc.
This reclosable flexible stand up pouch replaces a more traditional paperboard carton in the club store environment. Using transparent, fade-resistant inks in the rotogravure printing process, this package features detailed graphics in order to enhance the overall appeal of the product and entice consumers. Using a special, 100% solids adhesive system to ensure high lamination bond strength and excellent post-lamination, the structure offers good protection against freezer exposure.
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Knott's Berry Farm Foods Portion Control Jelly Cup Lidding
Hueck Foils L.L.C.
The lids on these individual jelly cups were surface printed on aluminum using six-color rotogravure plus an overlacquer in order to deliver appealing fruit vignettes and convey Knott's quality image. The challenging registration was held within precise tolerances, thus achieving the desired look and enabling seamless processing on Knott's filling equipment.
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Kraft Retail Shredded Cheese Pacmac Slider Zip
Pechiney Plastic Packaging
Employing a slider clip system from Minigrip/ZipPak integrated into a Pacmac V/F/F/S machine, this new slider package with laser scored film is easier to open and reseal, and provides greater security thanks to its tamper evident features - a zipper body that is enclosed in a shrouded header, and a peel seal incorporated into the zipper flange which provides a hermetic seal. The punch-out around the slider allows the consumer easy access to the slider, but prevents the slider from moving freely back and forth.
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LifePAK® Dietary Supplement
Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc.
Replacing a previously used packaging material which provided an inadequate barrier and poor seals, the new packaging film, NutraSeal, is used to package nutritional supplements that are highly moisture sensitive. NutraSeal is an aluminum-oxide coated polyester film which is coextrusion-coated with a blended polyolefin sealant layer. The polyolefin blend results in heat seals so strong that they do not break, even when a person stands on them.
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MAC Pro Lash
Specialty Films & Associates, Inc.
Replacing a folding carton, this reclosable stand up pouch holds a tube of mascara and features a distinctively dyed, partially metallized, printed, and laminated film. The pouch converting process utilized tandem webs while maintaining front to back print registration that resulted in a high end look and eliminated the use of a label on one side of the pouch.
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Market Prize Peeled Carrots
Pliant Corporation
Utilizing Pliant's Relliant Series 200 Slider that allows complete closure without a notch in the zipper track, this unique bag also features a reliable, tamper-evident, perforated inner gusset liner. Made from 100% recyclable polyethylene, the bag incorporates macro holes to extend the shelf life of the fresh, peeled carrots, and features a wide opening for unrestricted access to the product.
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Master Cat Reclosable Stand Up Pouch
Pliant Corporation
In addition to maintaining product freshness as well as aroma and moisture protection, this reclosable pouch for moist cat food offers cost advantages over traditional metal cans while delivering greater shelf impact. Traditional as well as thermo-resistant inks were used for the reverse printed PET film featuring 8-color rotogravure printing.
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McIlhenny Popcorn Cheese Flavored with Tabasco
Nestle Butterfinger Flavored Popcorn
American Packaging Corporation
These products represent a family of flavored popcorn items currently being introduced at retail. Using an outer web of clear OPP film and an inner web of metallized OPP film, the designs feature 7 - 8 color process flexo printing. The metallized OPP film utilized in this structure enhance the colors chosen in order to increase impact at point of purchase.
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McIlhenny's Tabasco® Brand Green Pepper Sauce
Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc.
This portion control flexible package for Tabasco® brand green pepper sauce was achieved through a reverse-printed, multi-layer structure which employs aluminum foil as a barrier, a white film to provide an opaque background for printing, and a proprietary polyester-based chemical resistant sealant layer which is coextrusion coated. This structure successfully overcame two challenges: the development of an off flavor in the green sauce indicating a scalping/leaching issue, and the problem of delamination which would occur due to an antioxidant ingredient present in the green sauce.
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Nabisco Barnum's Animals Crackers
Printpack Inc.
Designed as a 100th birthday commemorative for Barnum's Animals Crackers, this reclosable stand up pouch gave Nabisco an opportunity to incorporate detailed illustrations of the circus animals on the package. Seven line colors reverse printed on a rotogravure press and combined on an extrusion laminator were used on an uncoated polyester (extruded polyethylene), metallized polypropylene (extruded polyethylene), coex sheet. The bright red, yellow, and blue on the package make it a standout on the grocery shelf, especially for children.
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Nestle's® Buitoni® Brand of Fresh Pasta Lidding
Sealed Air Corporation, Cryovac Division
This family of fresh pasta packages benefit from Cryovac's OS Films lidding material which removes residual oxygen from the modified atmosphere package and achieves oxygen levels in the package of less than one-tenth of one percent. This active scavenging process increases the shelf life of refrigerated pasta by more than 50%, and does not require moisture to activate the scavenging process, rendering it equally effective in low or high humidity applications.
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Nestle's® Nesquik™
Alcoa Flexible Packaging
Changing from a waxboard gable top carton to a contoured clear PET bottle and shrink label increased Nesquik's shelf life from 15 to 60 days, allowing it to go into other venues including vending machines, movie theatres, and amusement parks. The full body PETG shrink sleeve, made from Eastman Embrace™ copolyester, is reverse printed rotogravure for high color fidelity.
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Pharmacia Detrol LA 4 mg Blister Pack
Hueck Foils L.L.C.
Used for the introduction of a new prescription drug to the pharmaceutical market, this 7-day blister pack features excellent graphics with exact register back to front printing for necessary patient instructions and marketing information. Additionally, the package enhances patient's compliance with the doctor's prescribed regimen and requires no repackaging or additional counting at the pharmacy. |
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Pillsbury Hungry Jack Waffles
Printpack Inc.
In order to provide a closure that would perform better for consumers as well as increase the freezer shelf life of the product, this frozen waffle package incorporates a sealstrip closure that replaces the previous bread bag type closure. A film solution was developed that uses the natural slip in the resins of the print surface and sealant to provide a consistent medium slip outer layer and a higher slip inner layer that allows the material to flow through the rigors of the sealstrip applicator.
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Pizza Film
Pechiney Plastic Packaging
This package combines Pechiney's patented nylon coextrusion technology with peelable sealant technology to improve overall package integrity at a significant cost savings to the rising crust pizza market. A coextruded top web provides a tighter vacuum pack around the pizza toppings, resulting in increased visual appeal to the consumer. Additionally, the peelable technology provides a uniform peelable seal that offers easy access for the consumer. |
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Plantation Crown 98% FF Turkey Breast
Sealed Air Corporation, Cryovac Division
Using an irradiated, post pasteurization barrier film reduces the risk of bacterial contaminants during the packaging of these fresh turkey breasts. The flexible package, which is shrink sealed on a rotary high vacuum Cryovac machine, features 2-color back surface printed graphics using special inks that can withstand the high shrink temperatures.
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Pop-Secret Caramel Nut Clusters from General Mills
Printpack, Inc.
Using an extrusion lamination of polyester reverse print/polyethylene/metallized polyester/polyethylene/film, this structure gives this resealable stand up pouch a crisp, upright look that maximizes the visual appeal of the package's graphics. The package's vivid colors are derived from 8-color flexographic printing which also helps achieve a greater tonal range from lights to darks as well as more definition and contrast. |
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Pretty Bird Gourmet Bird Food
Plassein International
Going from paper to poly, this package incorporates an extrusion lamination that provides a stronger, more durable package resistant to tears and punctures, and features an inner sealant layer which is custom designed to resist oil and grease. The high barrier nitrogen flushable package improves shelf life and controls potential insect infestation, eliminating fumigation or sterilization of the bird seed during processing.
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Primary Grit Slip Sheet
Primary Packaging, Inc.
This slip sheet helped a bulk carrot producer stabilize palletized bags of bulk carrots as well as facilitate the rapid removal of latent product heat from the stacked carrot bags. Extruded from polyethylene and a polymer which does not melt, these two materials in combination create a sandpaper effect that can hold the filled carrot bags together while the pallet is moved and shipped. The multiple holes provide ample free space for airflow through the pallet to remove heat from the produce. |
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Sabritas Papas Fritas Christmas Souvenir Package
Printpack Inc.
This flexible package for potato chips utilizes Macroboss™, a technology developed by Printpack that gives the look and feel of embossing, yet retains barrier properties that would be destroyed during the conventional embossing processes. Unlike a hologram, it is visible under all lighting conditions and from every angle. Using Macroboss, the souvenir package incorporates candy canes, Christmas trees, bells, and holly motifs in order to enhance shelf appeal for its Christmas promotion.
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Saladena E Z Peel® /Re-seal Crumbles Package
Curwood, Inc.
Replacing tub and lid packaging, the flexible lidding on this package for soft cheese allows the consumer to access the contents and re-seal the package using only fingertip pressure, thus eliminating the need for a rigid, snap-on cover. The patented E Z Peel system has been modified for this application in order for the multilayer film to expose a tacky layer for resealability when opened.
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Sargento Shredded Cheese Package with IntegraScore® Opening Feature
Curwood, Inc.
Improving upon an existing package, this gas flushed package for shredded cheese encases the slider within a hermetic seal, maintaining tamper evidence, and allowing the consumer easy access to the product. Curwood's propriety straight-line scoring technique, IntegraScore, gives the consumer a more convenient way to access the product and remove the hooded portion of the package.
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Simmons, Crispy Chicken Breast Strips
American Packaging Corporation
This reclosable stand up pouch was reverse printed using 9 colors on a state-of-the-art 10-color rotogravure press to achieve bold, high definition graphics that are not exposed to surface scuffing. During the filling process, the bag's structure must endure the vertical drop of frozen chicken strips from several feet above the bag. Designed for the supermarket freezer case, this pouch performs at temperatures below 25 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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Sorrento Stuffsters
Cello-Pack Corporation
New England Extrusion, Inc.
This new package made from a 3 mil Inflex M0466 polyethylene offers a dramatic improvement in the performance of the package over the previously used 3 mil cast polypropylene. The Inflex M0466 offers a wider heat seal range and better heat seal strength. The material has also eliminated film fractures, and offers a softer hand that reminds consumers of the soft creamy string cheese in the package.
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Titebond/Hipur Former Polyurethane Hot Melt Adhesive
Specialty Films & Associates, Inc.
Incorporating both a "Euro" hang hole and a stand up bottom for versatile merchandising, this flexible package incorporated a multi-color reverse printed, high barrier foil laminate to contain and control the vapor of the product being packaged. The foil laminate film gives the product an industrial look and feel, appealing to its construction and home improvement target groups. |
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Tropicana Smoothies
Alcan Packaging - Lawson Mardon USA Inc.
Reverse rotogravure printing on OPS achieved the desired visual effect for the shrink label on this unusual square bottle for a juice/yogurt combination drink. The application of a shrink sleeve across the entire length of the package allowed the design to utilize a greater surface area for enhanced display and product communication. The proprietary ink systems used in this initiative maximized their application and adherence to the OPS, which resulted in a high gloss finish.
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Tyson Chick Rib
American Packaging Corporation
This zippered, resealable pouch presents a high quality product image that is achieved through scuff-resistant reverse printing on a state-of-the-art rotogravure press capable of printing up to 10 colors. During the filling process, the bag's structure must endure the vertical drop of frozen chicken "ribs" from several feet above the bag. Additionally, the structure must retain its integrity at temperatures below 25 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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Vintage Violets
LPS Industries Inc.
Replacing a conventional rigid package for the promotion of hair coloring products, Redken's Vintage Violets pouch features enhanced graphics and a resealable zippered closure. Employing an environmentally friendly solvent-less adhesive technology, the package construction delivers the needed protection for the samples and literature it contains. The fidelity of the bag's surface color thematically interprets all components of the enclosed literature and hair samples.
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Wonderlawn Landscaper's Grass Seed Mixture
North State Flexibles, LLC
This clear stand up pouch was chosen over traditional poly bags and sewn bags for a new product introduction of grass seed. Using a lamination of PET to clear LLDPE, the package allows for reverse printing while offering scuff resistance as well as excellent gloss. The special, high slip PET outer layer allows easy stackability while offering minimal movement when palletized.
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