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February 2010

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Nutraceutical
Sustainable packaging is a growing concern in the healthcare & nutraceuticals industry. Custom packaging lines and innovative designs are helping the healthcare industry work toward packaging sustainability while maintaining product integrity.  Read how these and other technological advances are helping nutraceutical and healthcare packaging become more efficient
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Demonstrating in-line dry-filling of rigid containers up to 120/min

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Content Type Image  Video from Spee-Dee demonstrates multi-lane, multi-auger in-line filling system that achieves high speeds without sacrificing floor space. Timing screws rapidly orient rigid containers into two lanes, where they are efficiently filled at a combined rate of 120/minute by a pair of Spee-Dee® servo auger fillers, and recombined into a single lane.

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Blurring the lines of food, vitamins, and medicine

03/08/10

Content Type Image  Developments in vitamin-enhanced foods, medical foods, and nutritional supplements will open up new packaging opportunities.

Protein shakes launch in aluminum bottles

03/10

Content Type Image  ABB (American Body Building) has introduced Pure Pro® 50 ready-to-drink shakes in recloseable, lightweight, 16-oz Alumi-Tek aluminum bottles from Ball Corporation.

Meeting the challenge of mold on wood pallets

01/20/10

Content Type Image  It's not an appealing topic, but it has grabbed recent headlines.

Blister machine expands capacity for contract pharmaceutical packaging

01/20/10

Content Type Image Compass Pharma Services installs a new high-speed blister-packaging machine.

Concentrate products are extending to additional categories

01/14/10

Content Type Image  2X liquids are bringing smaller packages to additional categories, with benefits for both consumers and retailers.

Aluminum can-packed dog drinks

01/10

Content Type Image Judy In November 2009, specialty pet products company Petrol, Inc., Cornelius, NC, introduced a vitamin-enhanced hydrating drink for dogs.

Special features at WestPack

01/10

Content Type Image  When WestPack 2010 opens in Anaheim, CA, visitors can take advantage of five special show features.

Checkweigher delivers healthy packaging results

01/10

Content Type Image  Used primarily for dietary supplement multipacks, a new checkweigher helps PA-based contract packer Quality Packaging Specialists meet quality demands with accuracy and at high line speeds.

They’re baaack: Consumer group wants food label changed...again

01/10

Content Type Image  Ah, the food label, the Great Crossroads, the Window into the American Soul, where contemporary issues relating to diet and health are revealed and battled over, a town square where the features the food industry wants to tout and consumers care about are trumpeted or whispered about, with government agencies looking over everyone’s shoulder.

It’s only labeling: banish the phrase

12/09

Content Type Image Today’s topic is Dannon’s recent settlement of a multimillion dollar class action lawsuit, and specifically, what it is, and what it isn’t.

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Case packer, palletizer combination

Content Type Image  Bergami case packer pairs with robotic mini palletizer in a small-footprint design.

Sustainability upgrade for milk in PET

Content Type Image  A world’s first: The French dairy company LSDH is launching a lightweight PET bottle for shelf-stable UHT milk. ‘Dry’ sterilization saves significant amounts of water.

Capsule and liquid filling lines ease growing pains

Content Type Image  Sports nutrition and supplement products manufacturer and co-packer All American Pharmaceutical eases growing pains with new state-of-the art capsule and liquid filling lines.

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