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Mizkan Americas, Mt. Prospect, Ill., a leading condiment manufacturer, has started using 16oz long neck Powerflex™ polyethylene terephthalate ( PET ) hot fill bottles from Amcor Rigid Plastics, a leading producer of PET packaging, for its Buccaneer Blends barbecue sauces. Mizkan recently moved from ambient fill bottles to hot fill containers for the Buccaneer Blends line - a product acquired by Mizkan during the purchase of World Harbor Sauces & Marinades, Auburn, Maine, earlier this year. "To ensure product quality, we decided to switch from the ambient fill to the hot fill process," said Dave Rotunno, Director of Marketing for Mizkan. "Amcor's Powerflex bottle handles the hot fill process and offered the best solution to meet our manufacturing needs." The long neck PET bottle is finding increased use as a hot fill option in this food category, according to Amcor. The rest of the former World Harbors' line of sauces and marinades are bottled in ambie...

In collaboration with Ticona and K.D. Fedderson, the German kitchen appliance manufacturer Miele Inc. has developed a new oven function for its high-performance ovens range available under the trade name H5000: these new Miele ovens are equipped with a special hot water tank that automatically takes in the right amount of water and dispenses it as jets of steam into the oven cavity. This new function, namely “moisture plus” is said to provide improved results in baking and roasting. This newly-developed hot water tank that has to withstand high temperature of up to 220°C has been made from a 15% glass fiber reinforced poly(phenylene sulphide) material i.e. Fortron™ MT9115L0 DW from Ticona by using an extrusion blow molding process. This PPS grade has been chosen because it complies with the FDA requirement and with the European 2002/72/EC directive for food contact application. Furthermore it exhibits high dimensional stability and minimal water absorption even under high thermal stres...