Materials Product Brief
| January 17, 2008

Shrink films

Alcoa Flexible Packaging’s Reynolon® Plus Shrink Films uses polymer blend technology, which adds toughness, clarity, gloss, and temperature stability for extra demanding wrapping applications.
Materials Product Brief
| November 7, 2007

PVC shrink film

A new 6-page booklet from Alcoa outlines the ways its Reynolon® PVC shrink film can be considered a responsible sustainable packaging choice.
Materials Product Brief
| January 31, 2004

Rapid response printing

Alcoa Flexible Packaging is launching its Pouch Express rapid response printing program. Program provides pharmaceutical manufacturers with fine rotogravure printing from the Alcoa Packaging Downing-town Pharmaceutical Packaging Center in small quantities, as little as 3 million sq”, within 6 weeks.
Materials Product Brief
| November 30, 2003

Plastic closure for dairy products

Alcoa offers the Seal-MAX™ closure that can help prevent leakage in milk containers, yet is easy to open and offers improved tamper evidence. Seal design is ideal for single-serve packages where sealing requirements are more stringent.
Materials Product Brief
| August 31, 2003

Extreme temperature closures

Alcoa introduces 2 new closures designed to improve the seal integrity of carbonated beverage packaging under extreme temperature “cycling” conditions: the 28-mm Double-Lok XT™ (left) and 28-mm Extra-Lok XT™ (below).
Machine Product Brief
| January 31, 2003

Easy-opening pouch, tough-to-open box (sidebar)

X-ray inspection
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 2002

X-ray inspection

Smiths Heimann Corp./Product Inspection Div. (Alcoa, TN) introduces the Eagle Pack MK2?, a smaller, faster, smarter X-ray inspection system.
Machine Product Brief
| June 30, 2000

X-ray food inspection

Smiths Heimann Corp. (Alcoa, TN) has released a ?white paper?-style book explaining X-ray inspection of food. The ?Gray Book?
Machine Product Brief
| May 31, 2000

Multiple-program software

SimulTask?
Machine Product Brief
| April 30, 2000

Inspection system

The Eagle Case?
Controls Product Brief
| October 31, 1996

Water bottles

Two styles of PET water bottles have been introduced by Plastic Bottle (Libertyville, IL) for the retail water and sports drink market. M- and J-style tall rounds are available in four sizes: 355-mL, 500-mL, 1-L and 1.5-L.
Materials Product Brief
| November 30, 1995

Capping system

Alcoa Closure Systems (Indiana-polis, IN) has introduced the Intelli-Torq capping system. For use with both lined and linerless plastic closures on glass or plastic bottles, the sys-tem en-sures consistent re-moval torques and proper sealing with a variety of closure/ container combinations.
Materials Product Brief
| June 30, 1995

Beverage closure

Alcoa Closure Systems' (Indianapolis, IN) Double-Lok® beverage closure is now available in 28- and 38-mm sizes. Single-serve through 3-L sizes are available.
Materials Product Brief
| April 30, 1995

Hot-fill capper

The Model Y221 capping machine from Alcoa Closure Systems (Indianapolis, IN) is a high-speed, hot-fill plastic closure applicator. Suitable for products bottled in steam-filled, high temperature conditions, such as juice.
Materials Product Brief
| January 31, 1995

Quick-change bottle control parts

In a joint venture with Zepf Technologies of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Alcoa Closure Systems (Indianapolis, IN) has developed quick changeover bottle motion control parts for the beverage industry.