Sustainability

3Com adds thermoformed plastic tray to its 'network'

Computer communications gear maker 3Com replaces a variety of materials with a plastic thermoformed tray that protects shipments of its network adapter cards and cuts manual packing time by half.

January 31, 1999

Package Printing: Page 58

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: International agreements

Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI) and LG Chemical Ltd. (Seoul, Korea) finalized a 50/50 joint venture between the two companies to produce, market and sell Calibre(TM) polycarbonate resins in the Asia/Pacific region, excluding Japan.

January 31, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

All North American facilities within the Clariant Masterbatches Div. (Easton, MD) have assumed the name Clariant, including Bay Resins (Millington, MD) and PMC (Milford, DE), which have become Clariant, Performance Plastics.

January 31, 1999

Converting equipment

New Anew comes in PET

In adding Anew Day Force, an advanced "vertical lifting lotion," to its premium line of Anew skin-care products, New York-based Avon could have specified a glass jar similar to the one used for Anew Night Force lotion.

January 31, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Clinton serves up food safety

Food companies seem likely to face tighter scrutiny of how packaging is stored and used under proposals. New EPA testing could finger some materials.

December 31, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Software helps SmithKline gain compliance (sidebar)

How a packaging spec is born

December 31, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Wellman, Inc. (Shrewsbury, NJ) will relocate the U.S. production of its EcoClear(TM) recycled-content PET resin for packaging applications from its Day Products facility in Bridgeport, NJ, to its Johnsonville, SC, recycling operation.

December 31, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

H.B. Fuller Co. (St. Paul, MN) has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with Corn Products (Bedford Park, IL), appointing Corn Products as sales agent for H.B.

December 31, 1998

Sustainability

Brewers pouring into plastic

Brewers around the world have been on the fence about plastic bottles. Suddenly they're commercializing a variety of plastic barrier structures.

November 30, 1998

Closures

Miller's plastic beer bottle solves first of three marketplace puzzles

Those of us who thought Anheuser-Busch would be the first American brewer to market beer in plastic bottles at retail were surprised when, in early November, A-B turned out to be no more than a very interested observer as Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, commercially introduced three beers in unique, five-layer, oxygen-scavenging plastic bottles from Owens-Illinois' Continental PET Technologies, Inc.

November 30, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Silver cleaner polishes its look

Silver Blue's complete overhaul eliminates leakage and breakage while improving esthetics.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: GE Fanuc Automation: GE Fanuc Automation: Fire-safe pallet

Cookson Plastic Molding (Latham, NY) and GE Plastics (Pittsfield, MA) have developed AdvantEDGE(TM), said to be the first pallet to meet the new National Fire Protection Assn.'s standards for industrial fire safety.

October 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Honey shows off in clear PET (sidebar)

Europe knows about honey in PET

October 31, 1998