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| February 28, 1995

Coke's first contour bottle with PCR

Coca-Cola Co. chose Feb. 1 at the R'95 Conference in Geneva, Switzerland-an international conference on recovery, recycling, and reintegration-to announce the first-ever introduction of its famous contour bottle in a tri-layer format incorporating at least 25% post-consumer recycled polyethylene terephthalate between layers of virgin PET.
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At Jugos? Mexico City plant, overwrapped trays of glass bottles of juices (above) are being produced at the bottling line?s sp
Feature Article
| February 28, 1995

Mexican juices packed to U.S. standards

Tray packs of cans and bottles wrapped in shrink film allow Jugos del Valle to compete both in Mexico and in the post-NAFTA U.S. markets.
As empty bottles are depalletized (above left), they?re mutually supportive because they move forward in a mass; even more chal
Feature Article
| December 31, 1994

Empty-bottle handling is no picnic

The lightest of the PET bottles filled on Pepsi's new line weighs just 27.5 g. Controlling these empty containers at high speeds is difficult to say the least.
News
| December 31, 1994

PP bottles, PET film boast PCR content

Colgate-Palmolive's Murphy's oil soap has been in translucent blow-molded polypropylene bottles for years, and the New York-based firm had no desire to switch.
Schering-Plough got into pressure-sensitive labeling in a big way when it brought suncare product labeling in-house. Rotary p-s
Feature Article
| December 31, 1994

Coppertone's new label is a clear winner

Schering-Plough decided to bring in-house new p-s labeling of its suncare products. Along with special labels, the company needed labeling equipment-and also machine vision and ink-jet printing.
Materials Product Brief
| November 30, 1994

New resin

The Soft Touch package from Kranson Industries (St. Louis, MO) contains Catalloy process resins for a texture described as being a cross between a bar of soap and rubber.
Supplier News
| November 30, 1994

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Improved Blow Molding Equipment Co., Inc. (Bedford Park, IL) announced the appointment of Schram Plastics Systems (Mt. Prospect, IL) as its midwest sales representative.
Above: Gary Kulling, plant manager at CPC?s new plant inspects bottles destined to become Coastal Unilube (above, right). At CPC
News
| November 30, 1994

CPC takes over bottlemaking for Coastal Unilube

Continental Plastic Containers (Norwalk, CT) recently opened its 16th bottle plant (15th in the U.S.). This one's in West Memphis, AR, and it produces high-density polyethylene containers for Coastal Unilube.
News
| November 30, 1994

7-UP adds sparkle to holiday packages

A holographic label on 2-L bottles of 7-UP and Diet 7-UP is helping to promote a Miracle Money promotion by Dallas-based Dr. Pepper/Seven-Up Corp. Bottles with the holographic label are available in Texas, Michigan, Ohio and Southern California markets until the end of the year.
Supplier News
| November 30, 1994

Robb moves into PET production

Long known as a manufacturer of extrusion blow-molded plastic containers, Robb Container Corp., Naperville, IL, has begun to offer bottles of oriented polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with the startup of its Model SSB 20 stretch/blow molding system from MAG-Plastic (Toronto, Ont.)

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