Protective Packaging

Materials Product Brief

| May 31, 1998

Difficult-to-manage long and narrow products may be protected during shipping by Riveted Uchannel(TM). This packaging system from Laminations (Neenah, WI) is made from two laminated recycled paperboard edge protectors riveted together to form a U-shaped channel.

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Product is automatically fed into canisters by a PLC-controlled four-bucket filler (above). Product reaches the four individual

Feature Article

| April 30, 1998

Keebler becomes a canister convert

When consumers showed how much they liked resealable composite canisters for Animal Crackers, Keebler responded by launching other products in that package format.

An operator packs L-shaped inserts into a case (above) prior to shipping. Besides improving its cushioning (opposite right and

Feature Article

| April 30, 1998

Paperboard cushioning computes for LEK

Computer maker safeguards shipments with paperboard cushioning that nearly eliminates product damage and saves more than $20ꯠ/yr in breakage, labor and shipping costs.

Materials Product Brief

| April 30, 1998

Workstation

Ranpak's (Concord Township, OH) Pad-N-Pak® Workstation is now microprocessor-controlled, which puts machine functions at the operator's fingertips and simplifies monitoring of key functions.

Materials Product Brief

| April 30, 1998

Vertical molding station

Designed specifically for packagers that ship 100 products/day or less, Sealed Air's (Danbury, CT) Instapak® Twin Vertical Molding station produces 2 molded cushions/min.

Materials Product Brief

| March 31, 1998

Void-fill system

The Boxfill 3000 is a new machine from Boxfill (Maywood, NJ) that converts waste corrugated cases and scrap into lattice "blankets" that can be used as cushioning material.

Materials Product Brief

| March 31, 1998

PE foam extrusions

Pactiv Inc.-AVI (Glens Falls, NY) has introduced a line of closed-cell PE foam extrusions for customized protective packaging. The Proflex(TM) Profiles are non-dusting, non-toxic and resistant to moisture and most chemicals.

Materials Product Brief

| March 31, 1998

Protective packaging

Stanga Industries (Titusville, FL) is offering molded foam products for protective packaging using a product called Eperan. Beads are injected into a mold in a process similar to EPS, which causes them to form into a predetermined shape during expansion.

Materials Product Brief

| February 28, 1998

Protective packaging

Geoami is a 100% post-consumer recycled paper cushioning material that acts as protective wrap or void fill for products during shipping. From Cardinal Container (Schaumburg, IL), this material is composed of a web of hexagonal, angled cells said to deflect shock from goods.

This three-dimensional diagram shows how honeycomb dunnage helps secure rolls of brown paper used by corrugators. In the diagra

Feature Article

| January 31, 1998

Honeycomb secures paper for Pactiv's rail shipments

Four Pactiv mills switch from wood to a honeycomb paper roll securement system for railcar shipments of brown paper used by corrugating plants. The system helps reduce damage and mill worker injuries.

Feature Article

| January 31, 1998

Paper pulp molders share successes, shortcomings

New molded pulp producers group meets to assess status and learn new technologies. Packagers report on applications, identify areas that need help.

Feature Article

| January 31, 1998

Reusable PVC clamshells short-circuit waste for Lucent (sidebar)

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Plastic bags containing foam dunnage neatly protect GT?s software shipments while also reducing the need for five hours of daily

Feature Article

| January 31, 1998

Foam dunnage computes for GT's software

Minnesota is no stranger to snow. But at GT Interactive's Plymouth plant, located in suburban Minneapolis, a far different kind of blizzard was hampering operations.

Loose-fill dispersion at Borders (above) is activated by a footpedal. A central conveyor moves cartons into position to be fille

Feature Article

| January 31, 1998

Saving more than just peanuts

Bookstore chain Borders Group moves to a customized loose-fill system for distribution of its products to stores nationwide. Yearly savings are in excess of one million dollars.

At Lucent1s Columbus, OH, plant, a worker loads a printed circuit board into a clamshell at a work station

Feature Article

| January 31, 1998

Reusable PVC clamshells short-circuit waste for Lucent

Telecommunications component supplier slashes materials and labor costs by shifting to vinyl clamshell packs for printed circuit boards. Now Lucent asks some customers to return them for reuse.

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