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NACD’s best packages highlighted

06/09

Content Type Image  Activate earns best of show in NACD's 46th annual competition.

Sidel creates Engineering & Conveying unit

03/24/09

Content Type Image  Sidel is responding to customer demand by creating the “Engineering & Conveying” business unit to focus on optimizing existing bottling lines, rather than investing in new production capacity.

Delivering the best product at the lowest cost

12/08

Content Type Image Want to cut product or packaging costs? Whether you make or package the product, look for what you don’t know. Opportunities exist to impact the bottom line.

Keener focus on structural design: the shape of things to come?

12/08

Content Type Image Color is king in packaging’s visual hierarchy. But shape, a strong No. 2, might be on the verge of a breakthrough. Shape speaks the ‘language of credibility’ in a holistic design.

Custom mold caters to convenience

12/08

Content Type Image Consumer convenience is also prompting the growth of rigid plastic packaging.

Sustainability’s impact on machine design

10/08

Content Type Image Packaging machinery OEMs are finding that when it comes to sustainable packaging, they can help customers accomplish goals just as surely as suppliers of packaging materials can.

Method goes to PCR

07/08

Content Type Image Method Products has had a strong environmental position from the day it was founded. Now it’s converted 9 SKUs to 100% PCR PET.

HDPE bottle handles the pressure

06/08

Content Type Image  Custom container meets demands for ultra-pure, pressure-resistant package.

Fabric care bottle conjures cosmetics appeal

06/08

Content Type Image The elements of fragrance, fabric, and fashion are uniquely intertwined in a new line of "fabric enhancers" from Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble.

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Compact blow molder    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  A linear blow molder from Sidel produces flat bottles and complex shapes in PET, at speeds to 5,600 bottles/hr. Uses a Compact™ Preferential heating system, and permits fast changeovers with minimal down time.

Contract packager fills PEN bottles with personal care products for Wal-Mart

Content Type Image  At contract packager Lake Consumer Products, polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) bottles from Graham Packaging are conveyed single-file in pucks from left to right through a two-station volumetric filling process for feminine personal care products on Lake's line that relies almost exclusively on Terco equipment.

Le Nature: Blow molding preforms into PET bottles

Content Type Image At this bottler of flavored or enhanced waters, sports drinks, fitness waters, teas, juices, and other New Age beverages, preforms drop down a chute and into the blow-molding machines from Krones.

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