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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Bagging & Pouching
Wrapping
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
Wrapping: Page 18
Cartoning
Carton takes Chessters to supermarket freezers
Rhino Foods of Burlington, VT, had a nice little business going with Chessters, a frozen chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich named after a Chesapeake Bay retriever.
May 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control
Standardizing on SERCOS for digital motion control in packaging equipment permits Hershey to reduce construction, installation, start-up and maintenance costs.
May 31, 1998
Flow wrapping
Hershey 'opens' up for digital motion control (sidebar)
What SERCOS is and isn't
May 31, 1998
Flow wrapping
Future shock (sidebar)
Controlling the future of packaging
May 31, 1998
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Lozenges are blister-packed, flow-wrapped
Seeking to make the packaging for its Throaties medicated lozenges more consumer-friendly, Ernest Jackson, based in Crediton, Devon, England, switched from a foil bag-in-carton to an overwrapped blister card.
April 30, 1998
Flow wrapping
Flow wrapper
The new Flowtronic 120AB flow wrapper from GEI Autowrappers (Wayne, PA) uses an Allen-Bradley PLC and a three-axis servomotor drive system for flexibility in a range of applications.
December 31, 1997
Flow wrapping
Flow wrapper for heat- or cold-sealable films
The Pack 300 from Klockner Bartelt Medipak (Sarasota, FL) is a new servo-driven system for flow wrapping products in heat- or cold-sealable films. Operating at speeds of 300+ packages/min, depending on product and packaging material, the Pack 300 is suitable for multi-shift, non-stop production.
July 31, 1997
Flow wrapping
Flow wrappers
The Flowtronic 120SE from GEI Autowrappers (Wayne, PA) is capable of reaching speeds to 400 packs/min. Specifications for up to 20 different products can be retrieved with push-button control.
July 31, 1997
Flow wrapping
Flow wrapper
Rose Forgrove (St. Charles, IL) will introduce a shrink film version of the servo-driven Minerva rotary jaw flow wrapper. Designed with easy operation and maintenance in mind, it's suited for applications such as bakery, medical, meat and poultry, cosmetics and snack foods.
October 31, 1996
Flexible packaging
Pouches stand up for DuPont awards
For the second year running, stand-up pouches were prominent among winners in the DuPont Awards competition. Markets from around the world are represented in this 10th installment of the annual competition.
October 31, 1996
Flow wrapping
Flowrapper
Ilapak's (Newtown, PA) Carrera® 3000 horizontal flowrapper uses three individually controlled servo motors for infeed, rollers and jaws. Reaches speeds to 150 products/min using a single-head; multiple-head systems are also available.
May 31, 1996
Flexible packaging
Simplified wrapper boosts output
Despite a high-tech wrapping material, Saputo had too many leakers of its block cheese packs. New wrapper greatly improves seals while it boosts line output and slashes changeover time.
February 29, 1996
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