Thermoforming equipment |
If you’ve been seeking to enhance your existing automated operations and have previously rejected converting to horizontal thermoform fill and seal (HTFS) machinery, it just might be time to rethink that decision. White paper from Ossid explains why.
Marking its 20th year, the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation 2008 include a number of notable achievements in sustainable packaging.
New Medical Technical Center launched by Eastman Chemical Co., helps designers, original equipment manufacturers, and processors select and successfully run appropriate Eastman polymer for flexible or rigid packaging.
Reseal options give companies more ways for providing consumers with
added package convenience. One new technology, which adapts the entire
front of a package into a recloseable panel, has been recognized with
gold-level honors in packaging excellence by FPA judges.
Bioplastics: The very name suggests sustainability, but that shouldn’t exempt the materials from an objective, probing analysis.
Tray-Pak Corp. is adding a Class 8 clean room designed for medical and
pharmaceutical packaging. It will also meet the stringent sanitation
requirements called for in demanding industries such as electronics and
aerospace.
Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.
Innovation brings women to an aisle in the store—auto care—they don’t normally frequent, and integration of a network of vendors gives Honeywell a ‘virtual factory.’
The promise of smart packaging has always been impressive. Now, at last, some pretty intriguing commercial applications are starting to surface.
Soap products company strives to keep environment clean with innovative multi-pack structure.
Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.
From a feed bowl, tablets are fed into formed blisters via a Cam Pak thermoform/fill/seal system. Once lidding is applied, blister packs move through an inspection station from SEA Vision (represented in the U.S. by Calia Technical Inc.) and then on to a punch station.
Packaging material is fed from two unwind stands at floor level. Dancer bars help feed the material freely. Before any forming or filling can take place, the two webs must first travel to an overhead level.
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