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| April 30, 1995

8,600 canned hams recalled

Small glass shards found in two hams, one in Iowa, one in Wisconsin, prompted F.D.L. Foods, Inc., Dubuque, IA, to voluntarily recall 8길 3-lb canned hams.
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Two picking arms, each equipped with seven vacuum cups, rotate to pick carton blanks from the magazine feed and place them in
Feature Article
| April 30, 1995

Equipment made for the shade

Rising demand for its Sun-Gard solar control window film made this Florida firm take a hard look at its packaging operation. Custom-built cartoning and case packing equipment was the answer.
Improvements in materials and machines helped Kraft Canada reduce leakers on zippered cheese packs
Feature Article
| April 30, 1995

Team effort builds a better zipper

Continuous Improvement Teams at Kraft Canada wouldn't rest until the leaker rate on the firm's zippered reclosable cheese packs was firmly under control.
Feature Article
| April 30, 1995

Tom's finds that 'less, low and no' describe new snacks

What may be the first complete line of salty snack foods in low- and no-fat versions is now debuting from Tom's Foods. Known as a regional manufacturer, Tom's is now taking the lead in package design.
Feature Article
| April 30, 1995

Nabisco enters variety snack category in stand-up pouches

Nabisco Biscuit Co., East Hanover, NJ, is breaking into the variety snack category with Doyan-style stand-up pouches with reclosable plastic zippers.
In the packer, four jugs are being pushed onto the case blank before it?s folded and glued
Feature Article
| April 30, 1995

Arcadia takes major step in production

Juice and drink bottler upgrades case packing for high output, even outstripping what its palletizer can handle. A new palletizer is on the list; so is improved bottle feeding.
Feature Article
| April 30, 1995

Arcadia takes major step in production (sidebar)

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Supplier News
| April 30, 1995

HBA colors New York

Serving the cosmetic, fragrance, toiletry and non-prescription pharmaceutical industries, HBA Global Expo '95 has a strong packaging emphasis: almost 20% of this year's exhibitors are packaging-related companies.
Flat blanks fed from a magazine are pressed around a forming mandrel to produce the desired oval shape
Feature Article
| April 30, 1995

Obie's oval

This cookie mix marketer needed a paperboard container with a small footprint yet all the shelf impact of a round canister. An unusual oval was the answer.
Controls Product Brief
| April 30, 1995

Servo-driven cartoner

Formula IMC/S multi-packing cartoner from Klockner Bartelt (Sarasota, FL) is the first intermittent-motion, multi-axis cartoner to have independent servo drives performing all major functions, says the manufacturer.

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