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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Bagging & Pouching
Wrapping
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Outsourcing pavilion new at Pack Expo Las Vegas 99
To address the nearly 56% of companies using one or more contract packagers, PMMI's third western show, held Oct. 18 to 20, will feature an Outsourcing Resource Pavilion.
September 30, 1999
Flexibles: Page 324
Cartoning
Packaging marketplaces take center stage
This year will be recorded as the year of the Internet "packaging auction gold rush." Auction--and classifieds--Web sites are popping up faster than you can say "network protocol" in the great race to establish Internet-based marketplaces for selling packaging equipment and materials.
September 30, 1999
Flexibles
Barrier films are on a roll (sidebar)
Two-pronged attack in case -- ready meats
September 30, 1999
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
Conveying & accumulation
Overhead carriage wrapping averts product damage
Red Devil, a manufacturer of caulk, sealants and spackling compounds, eliminated product damage by switching to stretch wrappers that move film around a stationary load rather than spinning the load on a turntable.
September 30, 1999
Flexibles
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
AET Films (New Castle, DE): Phil Dabbert, account executive.
September 30, 1999
Cartoning
Packaging helps Johnson & Johnson enter food business
A custom thermoform and sophisticated packaging machinery help bring Johnson & Johnson's cholesterol-reducing Benecol spread to supermarkets across the country.
September 30, 1999
Flexibles
Keebler trumpets 'hand puppet' pouch
Last month, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler Co. introduced stand-up contour pouches for its new 7-oz Elf® Grahams snacks. The pouches are meant to be used as hand puppets after the product is consumed.
September 30, 1999
Flexibles
Kellogg cereal in linerless gabletop carton
In recent years, cereal marketers have turned to flexible pouches and bags to differentiate their products from traditional bag-in-box offerings. Kellogg, however, took a different tack in introducing Special K Plus(TM).
September 30, 1999
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Kraft executes sly redesign
The packaging for Kraft's Cracker Barrel® 10-oz cheese blocks underwent a significant change a year ago, but Kraft is hoping consumers won't notice.
September 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Overhead carriage wrapping averts product damage
Red Devil, a manufacturer of caulk, sealants and spackling compounds, eliminated product damage by switching to stretch wrappers that move film around a stationary load rather than spinning the load on a turntable.
September 30, 1999
Flexibles
Sealers
The HD-1, a 1" circular sealer, and the HD-4, a 4" straight sealer, are new from Aline Systems (Santa Fe Springs, CA). Accomplishing 6 to 12 seals/min, both machines deliver up to 50 lb of pressure to seal all plastic, laminate and barrier films.
August 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
Rovema Packaging Machines L.P.: Product accelerator
To increase speed in filling f/f/s pouches with lightweight foods such as extruded snacks, Rovema's (Lawrenceville, GA) PAC product accelerator alters the time of the product dump rather than the sealing time.
August 31, 1999
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