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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Bagging & Pouching
Wrapping
Cartoning
Tasty Baking takes a bite of automation
Automated packaging lines have transformed the sixth floor at thelegendary Philadelphia bakery. Flowrappers, cartoners and case packers take center stage in the new lines.
September 30, 1999
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Flow wrapping
Packagers take a lease on new business
Packagers that lease equipment cite preservation of working capital and tax benefits as advantages over buying.
September 30, 1999
Flexible packaging
Migros 'MAPS' out a meat strategy
The Migros chain of supermarkets in Switzerland relies on barrier materials and centralized, modified-atmosphere packaging for its case-ready fresh ground beef.
June 30, 1999
Flow wrapping
Valuable relationship shaves time
By having one dedicated flexible packaging vendor, American Safety Razor has slashed order lead times and improved quality.
May 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Robotic tray loaders speed cookie loading
A state-of-the-art line at Voortman Cookies in Canada uses 10 vision-guided robots to simultaneously pack cookies into five trays at 1걄 cookies/min. Saves C$450ꯠ/yr in labor costs and provides 10-minute tool-less changeover.
April 30, 1999
Flow wrapping
GEI Intl. Inc: Flow wrapper
The new Flowtronic 120SF wrapping machine from GEI Intl. (Exton, PA) can produce up to 1ꯠ packs/min. Suitable for the confectionery industry, the machine features an Allen-Bradley PanelView(TM) 600 color display unit for tool-free adjustment of key parameters.
April 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Collating candy at 3,000/min
Goetze's Candy Co. triples speeds for packaging its venerable soft caramel cream candies after installing a new servo-driven feeding/collating system with high-speed motion control.
February 28, 1999
Flow wrapping
'Servo-ing' up new generation Lifesavers
High output and quick, tool-less changeover were wrapper features that were persuasive to Nabisco's Lifesavers Division. Throughput is up at least 15% with servo-driven wrapping of individual hard candies.
February 28, 1999
Flow wrapping
Package permits expanded market reach
New equipment producing a new package means longer shelf life and broader distribution of snack-sized donuts for Carolina Foods.
January 31, 1999
Flow wrapping
Software helps Hershey slay downtime
Powerful software allows Hershey to automatically gather packaging efficiency data. Local and remote line control and monitoring are added bonuses.
November 30, 1998
Flow wrapping
Klockner Bartelt: Klockner Bartelt: Flow wrappers
Klckner Bartelt's Ho/oonsel Tevopharm NA Div. (Sarasota, FL) will introduce the Pack-200 medium-speed flow wrapper, which operates at speeds up to 300 pieces/min.
September 30, 1998
Flow wrapping
Flexo savings are in the bag
Bake-Line Products lowers print and package development costs while shortening lead times by switching from gravure-printed pre-made bags to flexo-printed rollstock.
July 31, 1998
Flow wrapping
Neckhanger displays gum sample pack
Clearly Canadian and Warner-Lambert have teamed up in a joint sampling program to promote gum and sparkling water. Throughout the summer, three million 1-L polyethylene terephthalate bottles of Clearly Canadian's wild cherry-flavored sparkling water will have their necks adorned with a five-stick sample pack of cherry Trident gum from Morris Plains, NJ-based Warner-Lambert.
July 31, 1998
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