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As Mies van der Rohe famously said, “Less is more,” a sentiment some suppliers say is as apt for packaging machines as it is for architecture.

The sugar – mainly from Brazil – was seized in Eastleigh estate in Nairobi and suspects arrested.

Nakuru East Deputy County Commissioner Omar Salat said they are treating the consignment as suspect until they verify details of the contents.

Just a few days earlier, I had made a pilgrimage to Kikyouya’s factory in Yamanashi, where workers wrapped thousands of pieces of fresh shingen mochi by hand each day, to see exactly what Nestlé was trying to capture. On my way, I stopped for lunch at a small noodle restaurant and sat by the window, eating a pile of salted plums. I could see busloads of tourists filing out in the parking lot, their floppy hats secured with strings, their shirts wet with sweat. They were fruit hunters. Yamanashi is green, dense with red pine and white oak forest and beautifully kept orchards that cut deep into its slopes. Fruit hunters pay to eat as much ripe, seasonal fruit as they like in a short span of time. Say, 30 minutes of thin-skinned peaches, or fat pink grapes, or strawberries, warmed from the sun, dipped into pools of sweetened condensed milk.

Soaker pads in the Blue Seawell tray’s 12 wells not only remove purge, they provide antimicrobial protection that protects against fishy odors for 10 days, doubling the scallops’ shelf life. Atlantic Capes coupled the packaging solution with Maxwell Chase’s tray sealers, which range from manually fed units to automated machines that seal 36-38 trays per minute.

Zip-Pak typically works with OEMs of vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal machines, horizontal flow wrappers and thermoform machines to integrate the resealable closure module with the bigger machine. As those manufacturers try to reduce changeovers and other production disruptions, Zip-Pak has had to more closely integrate its machines to work seamlessly with splicers and other related equipment.

Known for its zebra-striped wrapper, TomTom is a bit of a threefer, a hard candy with menthol that provides a hit of sugar, fresher breath and, according to its tag line, ‘‘soothing relief.’’ (Current flavors: classic, honey lemon and strawberry.) Cadbury has produced the candy in Lagos since 1970. It’s the official candy of the Super Eagles, the national Nigerian soccer team.

Shakespeare argues that people who free themselves from what he calls “obligatory work” will be a force for good because many of them will use their creativity for socially useful ends, and that they have the capacity to become standard-bearers for anti-consumerism. He traces the idea of a fulfilled, liberated life back to 19th-century writer Henry David Thoreau and his paean to nature, Walden. The Fire movement even has its own version of Thoreau in Elizabeth Willard Thames, AKA Mrs Frugalwoods, who has written a book about opting out of urban life and buying 26 hectares (66 acres) of woodland in rural Vermont, on which she lives with her husband and two daughters. Like Adeney, she hymns the simple, outdoor life unencumbered by excess – a rival American dream to the consumerist one. Both dreams require money – buying 66 acres of rural Vermont complete with house and barn cost the Frugalwoods $389,000.

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There are tiny gifts, too. A smooth pebble. A coupon for a free hamburger. A muffin. Greek pastries. Halloween candy (the molasses kisses that nobody likes). Lots of Timbits. A ballpoint pen. Home-recorded Indian veena music, installed on my computer by the veena virtuoso so I can listen any time. A crystal frog and then a crystal owl to join him. An aloe vera plant, fridge magnets, homemade Italian biscotti (given in perpetual gratitude for a house call I made one Christmas Eve) – presents that demand to be opened in front of the proud giver, and others that my staff and I can take home to share.

“We will be part of the story by making formulations and new molecules that are developed specifically for this technology,” said Renaud Deval, global head of weed control at Syngenta, which was bought by ChemChina last year.

It makes sense that, within an industrial setting, the primary value of sensory evaluation is consistency. But why should nonprofessional tasters care about slowing down to describe the experience of eating candy? “At the end of the first day of training, I say to people: ‘Go home tonight and taste your dinner. Come back and tell me about it tomorrow. Come tell me about your first cup of coffee,’ ” Fossum answered. “They come back and say, ‘I never knew it tasted like that.’ Until they do sensory, they don’t pay attention to what things really taste like. They just drink and eat. So they learn, and they learn to appreciate.”