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Attending the yearly HealthPack conference is an important educational opportunity for the medical device community, agree John Spitzley (shown in photo) and Curt Larsen, the event’s co-chairmen who developed the agenda for the March 4 – 6 event at the Sheraton Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. “At HealthPack 2008, the keynote speaker will be Mary Jo Steiert, president of AORN, the Assn. of periOperative Registered Nurses,” says Larsen.
Aluminum can lends shelf appeal for New Sun Nutrition's reformulated Free Radical Scavenging (FRS) beverages. In February, New Sun Nutrition's CEO Richard Lamb announced, "Since the launch of FRS in 2004, we have continued to fine-tune the product and are proud to introduce a great-tasting, improved formula in addition to an eye-catching new recyclable can for the ready-to-drink format." The aluminum can with pull tab from Rexam (www.rexam.com) offers a one-year shelf life for the beverage that requires no refrigeration. New Sun Nutrition says the shelf life exceeds that of the plastic bottle that this can replaced.
In January, Fever Beverage USA introduced 14-oz Fever Original and Fever Low Calorie stimulation beverages in aluminum bottles supplied by distributor Zuckerman Honickman. CCL Container manufactures the bottles and uses lithography as the decorating process. Silganmakes the 38-mm metal screw cap that tops the bottle.
