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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Labeling
Coding & Marking
Package Printing
Controls & Machine Components
DuPont Packaging: Barrier film
A new barrier film, made with nylon and a new grade of DuPont (Wilmington, DE) Surlyn® packaging resin, was developed by Italian converter Alcom Srl (Campogalliano, Italy).
September 30, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling: Page 280
Conveying & accumulation
Print-and-apply unit
Alpha Dot USA (Belle Mead, NJ) introduces the Eclipse, an advanced print-and-apply thermal-transfer labeling system for secondary package identification.
September 30, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Metallized BOPP label
Avery Dennison (Pasadena, CA) offers the Fasson® Metallized BOPP labeling material with repositionable/permanent adhesive. Featuring a mirror-like image, the label uses a 2-mil, biaxially oriented PP facestock.
September 30, 1998
Flexible packaging
Innovations in plastics help foods flourish
Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.
September 30, 1998
Flexible packaging
Aseptic PE/EVOH/PE bottles hold shelf-stable infant formula
Infant formula isn't a category where you normally find a lot of packaging innovation. But this summer has brought us two interesting packaging advances in the "mother's milk" replacement business.
September 30, 1998
Secondary Packaging
A new record for distributed control (sidebar)
How distributed control spreads the burden
September 30, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Bringing a glacier to the consumer
On Vancouver Island, a brand new PET bottling line fed by an in-line stretch blow-molding machine is packaging right from a glacier some of the purest water on the planet.
September 30, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
A new record for distributed control
Music distributor Valley Media cuts downtime by more than 50% on its newest labeling/sortation/collating line. A network of micro PLCs controls the line as well as gathers performance data to speed troubleshooting.
September 30, 1998
Flexibles
Career fairs: How some companies 'precruit'
Many companies look for packaging professionals at schools with packaging curricula, and some successful companies begin the process before students even graduate.
September 30, 1998
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
A new record for distributed control (sidebar)
Profibus network explained
September 30, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Packaging power struggle
When operators override control logic and take control of the line, how should the packaging engineering department react?
September 30, 1998
Flexibles
Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more
Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Technology breakthroughs on display.
September 30, 1998
Labeling
Meat regs questioned
Requiring all beef and lamb sold in the U.S. be labeled "U.S.", "Imported", or "Blended with Imported" as mandated in the 1998 Agriculture Appropriations bill pending in Congress would cost the government $60 million to enforce and could hurt U.S.
September 30, 1998
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