The FLATE Center for Manufacturing Education wishes to make available, for educational and non-commercial purposes only, materials of the “Product Packaging And DistributionAt Tropicana ” presentation comprised of images, texts, facilitator’s notes, and other demonstration materials.

This instructional resource forms part of FLATE’s outreach efforts to facilitate a connection between students, teachers and manufacturers throughout the State of Florida. We trust that these activities and materials will add value to your teaching and/or presentations.

Please visit our website for additional resources, including our Made in Florida Video, a unique behind-the-scenes visit to modern manufacturing companies in the State of Florida. 

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All content © 2012 FLATE. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0802436. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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Tropicana—a division of PepsiCo, Inc. since 1998—is now one of the world's leading producers and marketers

of branded fruit juices.

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How does Tropicana produce their famous orange juice?

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Squeeze the oranges. Blend the juice. Control the quality.

Package the juice. Box the containers. Ship the product.

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What is PACKAGING?

Question:?

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Answer:?Packaging is the process of using materials to contain, protect, and display products during handling, storage, shipping and retailing.

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Here is a question for you. If you had 500,000 gallons of freshly squeezed orange juice, how would you pour it into small containers so that they could be sold in your local grocery store?

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•Design a new 64 fluid ounce. juice container

•What would it look like?

So here is your Challenge...

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Your proposed container must:• Protect the quality of the juice.

• Be attractive to the consumer.

• Be made of cardboard or plastic.

• (Glass ideal but fragile and heavy)

• Fit production filling stations.

• Fit grocery shelves.

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Some container options used by Tropicana for

orange juice

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Congratulations!!! You have completed a

learning activity about modern manufacturing.

For a behind the scenes look at modern

manufacturing check out the Tropicana Virtual

Tour and our Made in Florida Video at

www.madeinflorida.orgwww.madeinflorida.org..11