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April 2008
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Bander replaces overwrap, boxes, and rubber bands

11/14/07    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image  Watch as the US-2000 RPB (Rotary Pick-and-Place banding machine) from Wexler stacks and bands products such as blister packs and sachets. The rotating feeder stacks up to 400 blister packs/min.

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‘Green machine’ saves green

03/07

Content Type Image Retrofitted side sealer boosts hf/f/s shrink line throughput 50% and reduces film waste at Berkeley Contract Packaging. Those savings are passed along to customers.

Costco unboxed

11/06

Content Type Image  Out-of-the-big-box eco-thinking drives Scott Carnie­—and new packaging—at Costco.

‘Bottle Can’ Takes To Steel

08/06

Content Type Image Initially developed in Japan and made out of PET-coated aluminum, the ‘bottle can’ now comes to the U.S. in a two-piece steel format made in a shiny new plant.

Machinery’s growing role in package innovation

05/01/06    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image At PMMI Partners in Packaging event, packaging machinery automation supplier ELAU presents examples of innovative packages and the machines that made them commercially viable.

Coordinate package design with machinery capabilities

02/01/06    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image At the Package Design 2006 Conference, designers saw how innovative package designs sometimes require all-new machine designs – and why it pays to collaborate with packaging engineering up front.

Making more corrugated recyclable

10/05

Content Type Image A new coating for corrugated paper holds the promise of bringing to an end the need to separate old corrugated containers (OCC) and waxed corrugated boxes.

Pro Mach's integrated solution

09/01/05

Content Type Image PACK EXPO : Pro Mach's position as one of the largest single-source providers of packaging solutions in North America was emphasized at a press conference on Tuesday, September 27 at Pack Expo Las Vegas (PELV) that also previewed a new installation that leverages Pro Mach's integrated capability.

Low-profile, soft-grip package opens new markets

09/05

Content Type Image O’Keeffe’s Co., Inc., Sisters, OR, has tapped more deeply into target markets for its hand and foot crème balm products by introducing alternative packaging for the hardware/home center channel.

Waste ‘sandwich’ helps Wal-Mart recycle

08/05

Content Type Image More than 300 Wal-Mart stores in the West are recycling shopping and apparel bags, thanks to a special ‘sandwich’ bale.

Marden Edwards’ new servo end-fold wrapper

04/01/05    Sponsored Grey Star

Content Type Image 75 cpm wrapper offers enhanced graphics, gentle film handling, from Marden Edwards at Interpack 2005

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Schering-Plough: Banding of finished blister packs

Content Type Image A lengthy conveyor section brings individual cartons to upstacking and banding, from Pester.

Peak Foods: Tamper-evident banding for bowls of nondairy whipped topping

Content Type Image Bowls are conveyed into full-surround flights that provide a 360 degree deck that perfectly centers each tamper-evident band. Bowls are secured in the flights all the way from the infeed of the trio of tamper-evident band applicators through the heat tunnel. Tamper band applicators were supplied by Axon Corp.

Peak Foods: Bowl accumulation for nondairy whipped topping

Content Type Image Bowl flow on the Garvey accumulation table downstream of TE banding and ahead of case packing is seen in overhead and floor-level views. Bowls will continue to recirculate on the accumulation table, which operates without active devices such as photoeyes, until downstream operations are cleared.

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