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Flexibles

Exopack goes global

Globalization represents one of the most important and dynamic influences on industrial competition, especially in the flexible packaging arena.

March 7, 2007

Flexibles

Pouch-in-pouch earns FPA's top honor

Retorted pouch-within-a-pouch from Wyeast Labs protects sensitive yeast products to gain two golds and highest achievement honors in FPA's annual awards recognizing the best in flexible packaging.

March 5, 2007

Flexibles

OfficeMax paper reams maximize easy opening

OfficeMax adds convenient, tear-strip opening to its branded film-wrapped reams of paper.

March 2, 2007

Flexible packaging

Fast cartoners get added boost

Switching from PLC to ELAU’s PacDrive as its standard automation platform gives Z Automation’s high speed machines even greater speed and flexibility

February 26, 2007

Flexibles

Packaging environmental efficiency study released

Use-less-stuff's new 56-page study that takes a careful, measured look at environmental efficiency for various formats may be 'An Inconvenient Truth' for packaging.

February 22, 2007

Cartoning

Newest flowwrapping/robotic cartoning technology from Italy for confectionary applications

Video clip shows Cavanna Cartesio robotic flow wrapping and cartoning system for chocolate bars that integrates the forming, filling, and sealing of cartons in a single packaging cell whose footprint is about 16' x 6' x 6'.

February 21, 2007

Sustainability

Economics, environmental benefits, ease of transport

Three reasons why Three Thieves likes Tetra Pak® carton packaging option for wines.

February 9, 2007

Flexible packaging

Checking up on healthcare packaging

Drug delivery devices, advances in combination products, and biologicals/biopharmaceuticals will present both challenges and opportunities for packagers.

February 9, 2007

Flexibles

Coping with coffee demand

Auger fillers above a vf/f/s machine was just the beginning. A checkweigher with electronic feedback to the filler saves $25,000 in just eight months.

February 9, 2007

Flexibles

Lewis and Clark discovers paperless multipacks

Lewis and Clark Brewery, Helena, MT, debuted in summer 2006 a new kind of environmentally friendly six-pack.The brewery has adopted ITW’s BrandPak™, a packaging collaboration from ITW Hi-Cone (www.hi-cone.com) and ITW Auto-Sleeve (www.itw-autosleeve.com) as the multipack of choice for its 12-oz bottles. A sleeving system from PDC Europe (www.pdceurope.com) applies the bands.

February 9, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeler designed specifically for flexible packaging

This short, 60-second video clip from EPI Exact Packaging shows a variety of flexible packages that can be labeled using its equipment.

January 29, 2007

Flexibles

Pizza dough gets custom gas-valve packaging

A Nestlé subsidiary in Europe packages refrigerated Buitoni-brand dough with six weeks' shelf life.

January 19, 2007