Case Studies

Hot-fill PET container holds 16 oz of barbecue sauce marketed by Old South Foods.
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16-oz hot-fill PET for BBQ sauce

Copacker Old South Foods’ first use of PET delivers glass-like appearance, reduced breakage, and improved filling.
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Jamieson Symetix
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Vibratory size grader adds efficiencies for Jamieson Laboratories

Automates removal of broken tablets and fragments upstream of packaging for Canadian maker of vitamins, minerals, and supplements.
Ansell Reverse
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Total makeover for Ansell personal lubricants

Structural and graphics packaging improvements earn awards.
Burgopak Sinuflash
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French laboratory relaunches probiotic product

Aragan switches from a common blister/carton to a patented slider pack that offers multiple benefits.
Aluminum can for Mimosa.
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Aluminum cans are catching on

One notable trend in beverage packaging these days is the growing popularity of aluminum cans for craft beers.
GHS-compliant labels are produced on demand at OctoChem.
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On-demand labels a winner for specialty chemical supplier

Despite a down economy, business has been booming at a specialty chemical supplier.
Among the things beck packautomaten was able to do with the help from new drive technology was to eliminate the need for compressed air, an expensive form of energy.
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Drive technology serves up a customer-friendly shrinkwrapper

The newest shrinkwrapping system from this packaging machinery OEM makes good use of drive technology to minimize energy consumption and save on packaging materials.
Indexing conveyors accurately deliver component part counts and weights per box at an adjustable pace.
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Indexing conveyors give line operators a break

Modular conveyors give this injection molding company a useful time cushion that improves labor usage efficiencies and reduces packaging line downtime.
With high-velocity air being delivered by two aluminum air knives, labeling efficiency has been greatly improved.
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Bottling line cost savings stick like glue at brewery

A new high-velocity blower and air knife system at Lakefront Brewery saves costs on glue and provides greater labeling productivity.
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Automation hastens case-packing speeds and pack-pattern changeovers

Giant Snacks seeds growth in productivity with robotic pick-and-place packing equipment.
Secondary and tertiary packaging are shown
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Danone thermoforms PET for a niche line of products

Danone sought an alternative to an EBM bowl made of clarified PP, but it didn’t want to lose the bowl’s unusual shape or its clarity. The answer: PET and ‘open-mold’ tooling.
Empty tubes are picked from boxes by the robot’s twin-row end effector and placed in the filler’s pucks.
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Norway's Ello turns to robots for an automation solution

Filling, insertion into trays, secondary packaging, and palletizing of tubes is done at 155 tubes/min by a tightly integrated series of robotic systems that require only one operator.
New digital color label press at Reynders
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Digital color label press is a first

When it comes to quality and perfection, Reynders Label Printing has shown since its founding in 1959 that it knows just how to deliver.
Secondary packaging includes MoistCatch moisture absorber.
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Moisture-absorbing breakthrough?

Plastic bottles holding a range of adhesives sold by Toagosei Co. Ltd. in Japan are now being put into secondary packaging that includes MoistCatch, a moisture-absorbing component that eliminates the need for adding moisture-absorbing desiccant pouches.
Compostable film wrap for Free Trade chocolates.
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Chocolate wrapped in compostable film

Alce Nero, an Italian consortium of organic producers and farmers, has chosen compostable material to wrap its range of Fair Trade chocolate.
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Sport-inspired aesthetics signal new Dr. Scholl's product

Industrial and graphic design teams work together to create holistic design for athletic insoles that sets the line apart from other Dr. Scholl’s products.

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