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You Can Reclose Beer Cans Now
Jan 10, 2023
Augusta Label + Packaging’s Gen II aluminum ends add resealable convenience to canned craft beer and sodas, cocktails, coffee, and...
Reclosable end boosts can convenience
Reclosable end boosts can convenience
Feb 11, 2015
The “Recloseable Easy-Open End” (REOE) from HeatGenie is a platform technology that can be customized to a variety of beverage and food cans…and reclosure is not its only benefit.Reclosability offers added convenience and is a feature common on...
Easy-open end reduces metal, costs for food packaging
Easy-open end reduces metal, costs for food packaging
Jul 28, 2014
Looks can be deceiving, such as for this food can end that looks and performs like any other food can end, yet it’s 20% lighter. That makes the Ultralite QT Easy-Open End the lightest-weight end of its kind in the U.S., claims supplier Silgan...
Thermochromic tabs make chilled cans colorful and easy to spot
Thermochromic tabs make chilled cans colorful and easy to spot
Jun 10, 2014
Thermochromic inks have found a range of applications in beverage packaging, but a new use on tab ends may be said to literally top them all.The temperature-sensitive, color-changing inks from Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI), available in red...
Cam-operated reseal for beverage containers
Cam-operated reseal for beverage containers
Mar 03, 2014
Over the years, there have been a number of variations on a theme of resealability for beverage containers, most of which center on a twist-off feature of some sort. At one time the now-ubiquitous “sports cap” remade the face—or literally the top...