Package Design

Closures

Materials Product Brief

| December 31, 1994

Precycling service

In a process it calls "Precycling," McKernan Packaging Clearing House (Reno, NV) obtains surplus components from discontinued or redesigned product lines that would otherwise be headed for landfills and sells them for less than what it would cost them to produce the materials themselves.

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Materials Product Brief

| December 31, 1994

Self-sealing closure

The Cap'N Lock closure system from Preferred Closures (Northbrook, IL) has a spill-resistant, one-piece cap that locks into place with a lock sealing system, patent pending.

Humco president Tom DeGreve likes the speed and accuracy of his recently installed liquid filler, but its automatic clean-in-pla

Feature Article

| December 31, 1994

Filler makes changeover a breeze

Tough-to-clean OTC pharmaceutical products like iodine and mercurochrome are no problem at changeover time since Humco installed a filler with automatic clean-in-place capabilities.

Originally a stock flint bottle was used (above). Currently the cobalt blue bottle is available in four sizes (top), one of them

Feature Article

| November 30, 1994

Skyy gets it right

U.S. made (and proud of it) Skyy vodka comes in a striking blue bottle that's starting to make its mark in restaurants, bars, and liquor stores across the country.

News

| November 30, 1994

Stretch replaces shrink

For insulation manufacturer Litepac, shrink wrapping stacks of polystyrene insulation was a costly process-both in money and in material waste. The Granard, County Longford, Ireland-based company's change to a System 2000 Double Stretch Bander from EDL Packaging Engineers (Green Bay, WI) not only provided savings but ended the potential problem of board distortion caused by heat from shrink wrapping.

Feature Article

| November 30, 1994

Beverage Packaging Wars Pay Peace Dividends to Others

No matter what your product, you probably have, or will, profit by some packaging development that first made its debut in the beverage packaging sector.

Feature Article

| November 30, 1994

Versatile vinyl clearly a winner

Innovation played the key role in this year's Vinyl in Packaging Awards competition. Some winners were decidedly "green" as well.

Semi-automated shell-handling system greatly reduces the repetitive motion involved in feeding shells to the line

Feature Article

| November 30, 1994

Pepsi line has future in mind

Fast changeover and overall versatility were foremost in mind when Pepsi designed its high-speed line for hard-to-handle one-piece PET bottles in four different sizes. Machine redundancy, computerization, and modular construction all contribute significantly.

Materials Product Brief

| November 30, 1994

Durable mailing envelopes

Sealed Air Corp. (Fair Lawn, NJ) offers a brochure discussing the applications, features, and benefits of ShurTuff® durable mailers. Stonger and lighter than paper, these coextruded, polyolefin plastic mailers reduce postage and withstand shipping stress.

Materials Product Brief

| November 30, 1994

F/f/s retrofit

Presto Products (Appleton, WI) has introduced a patented technology for retrofitting draw bar vertical f/f/s equipment so that it can be used with Presto's Fresh-Trak® reclosable zipper.

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.

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