Case Studies

Blisters & Clamshells

Plitt's seafood tote is not only rugged, but easily identifiable.

Machine Case Study

| September 30, 2003

'Catch and release' packaging

Seafood processor Plitt shifts from waxed corrugated to returnable crates to save money, time, and damage.

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The digital case printer uses a shuttle system to convey the bottom case blank from a stack in the magazine (top) up into the pr

Machine Case Study

| February 28, 2003

Kenosha Beef makes a case for digital printing

An off-line digital case printer saves $50ꯠ/yr in labor and label costs.See in-plant video

Package Case Study

| February 28, 2003

Thermoforming proves swell for Jo-El

“Hardware manufacturers were not known for offering consumer-friendly packaging in the past,” admits Benny Vestergaard, logistics manager of Jo-El Electric A/S, Odense, Denmark.

While most dental packets at Kodak are bundled in a polyester band and then flow-wrapped in a film/foil laminate (left), SureSof

Package Case Study

| January 31, 2003

A softer, gentler packet

When product development and packaging engineers at Kodak came up with a more patient-friendly dental film, a new approach to packaging was part of the package.

After folding two side flaps, an operator inserts the sensor product (above) between the package's corrugated and film material.

Machine Case Study

| October 31, 2002

Less time + less labor and materials = savings

Sensor maker Sensotec employs retention packaging that saves in labor and material costs, while delivering consistent protection.

Package Case Study

| October 31, 2002

Nite Ize sees card printing economics

To achieve color printing on both the front and back of its blister cards, Nite Ize Inc., a Boulder, CO-based manufacturer of outdoors equipment, turned to CardPak (Solon, OH).

Each of eight new vertical form/fill/seal machines like the one shown here can fill any of Golden Flake's potato chip varieties,

Machine Case Study

| May 31, 2002

Addition by subtraction

Golden Flake doubles speeds and reduces labor costs for potato chip packaging by replacing 21 outdated lines with eight new vf/f/s machines. See in-plant video

Package Case Study

| January 31, 2002

Speedy packing service 'Xpress'es itself

When Zebra Pen needs to fill orders for its major retail customers in a hurry, the Edison, NJ-based company often turns to CardPak (Solon, OH) and its XpressCombo service to print the blister cards for its packs of pens, markers, and pencils.

Lou Raucci, manager of packaging at Amertac, loads a print order behind the three new label printers.

Machine Case Study

| November 30, 2001

Label print station cuts fulfillment costs

American Tack & Hardware upgrades label printers for speed and quality images and gets healthy savings in the bargain.

Package Case Study

| November 30, 2001

Listerine strips made portable, universal

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Morris Plains, NJ, introduced in the United States in October ‘01 Cool Mint Listerine PocketPaks™ of tiny hinged plastic “vials.” The vials (see sidebar) contain stamp-sized oral care strips that dissolve instantly on the tongue where they kill germs on contact. A carded blister serves as the secondary package.

Package Case Study

| September 30, 2001

Kodak sees ?Advantix? in pouch

Kodak Canada Inc. is test marketing a four-pack of its Advantix-brand photographic film in a reclosable zippered gusseted pouch in Canada. It’s believed that this is the first film sold in a resealable pouch in North America.

In this photo, the central feed wheel (right) has just been loaded with 36 cans, and the pickup head (left) is ready to load aga

Machine Case Study

| March 31, 2001

Pepsi caps its cans

In response to consumer concerns about hygiene, Pepsi-Italy has begun thermoforming HIPS overcaps onto single-serve cans of its soft drinks.

On the Excel bagger (bottom photo), American Innotek's portable toilet bags are packaged for its "industrial" clients. The SPrin

Machine Case Study

| March 31, 2001

'Sprinting' to automated efficiency

New bagging equipment makes it easy for this California manufacturer to package its disposable travel toilet for either industrial or retail channels.

Package Case Study

| March 31, 2001

Non-food flexible packs devour awards

FPA recognizes a multilayer p-s ‘book’ label for cleaners, a plastic header bag, a resealable stand-up pouch, a high-barrier industrial wrap, formable and peelable webs for a medical package, and a CR reclosable bag for pharmaceuticals.

A customized pick-and-place arm places markers into blister cavities on the rotary table of an eight-station heat-sealing machin

Machine Case Study

| January 31, 2001

Sanford sold on 'cell' concept

In-line marker assembly and packaging, featuring an eight-station automatic heat-sealing unit, helps manufacturer increase production, save labor costs and meet just-in-time needs.

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