Flexibles

Flexible packaging and labeling winners

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Flexibles

Promo pouches packed with Bliss

When Unilever marketers in Ontario, Canada, needed a promotional mailer for samples of new Snuggle-brand liquid Botanical Bliss fabric softener, they had two key requirements.

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Flexibles

Twist-tie wrap is PLA

With the August launch of College Farm organic hard candies in East Coast markets, JoEl Inc. of Elizabethtown, NJ, is the first North American candy company to offer confectionery wrapped in NatureWorks™ polylactide (PLA) from Cargill Dow.

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Converting equipment

Henkel cuts fees with new Sil package

The Henkel Group, Düsseldorf, Germany, has cut the costs of packaging fees on its Sil-brand stain-removing laundry powder by using a new package with a moisture-vapor-barrier built into the box.

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Flexibles

Retort pouch call for papers

December 15 is the deadline for presentation topics for the Retort Pouch Americas 2004 conference at the Radisson Inn in Princeton, NJ, April 21 and 22.

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Secondary Packaging

Technology redesign incorporates servos

Package Machinery Company’s new servo-driven FA-ST overwrapping machine is equipped with six servo drives, giving it added flexibility and fewer maintenance issues compared to the machine it replaced.

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Flexible packaging

X-ray technology

Smiths Heimann offers the Eagle Bantam, designed to provide an inexpensive solution to inspection. Features include the machine's 53" length, environmental design to support both IP64 and IP65 requirements, inspection speeds to 400'/min, statistics and reporting capability, and contaminant detection as well as check weighing, count, mission pouch, and void detection.

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Flexibles

Foam-in-place system

IntelliPack offers the SmartBagger, an advanced foam-in-place packaging system. Designed for the operator with a focus on safety and ease-of-operation, the system uses a modem to connect to IntelliPack’s customer service.

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Flexibles

Direct thermal overlaminating film

Media Solutions Intl., IIMAK, Wausau Coated Products introduce the TOF Thermal Overlaminating Film. According to the companies, the patented TOF product is a breakthrough for thermal imaging and an important new direct thermal label product.

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Flexibles

FPA ANNOUNCES DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES

December 3, 2003 is the deadline for entries for the 2004 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition. For details, call FPA’s Marla Donahue at 410/694-0800, or visit www.flexpack.org.

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Flexibles

Stand-up pouch is clearly nutty

Health foods maker GeniSoy Products Co., Fairfield, CA, debuted a new line of soy nut-based Trail Mix in October 2002, “in a pouch where consumers actually see the product,” says marketing manager Sabrina Wootton.

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Flexibles

Packaging redesign with more 'Pop'

ACT II, manufacturer of microwave popcorn, decided early this year to change the printing process on its popcorn packaging from four-color flexographic to four-color offset as well as update the packaging for its two popcorn “tiers.” Because the logo and packaging design for its first-tier line is well-known among consumers, designers at Mackey Szar decided to make some understated, yet impactful updates.

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Conveying & accumulation

Tropicana's juiced about aseptic bottle filling line (sidebar)

Downstream efficiency

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