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Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Equistar Chemicals, LP (Houston, TX) recently installed a seven-layer blown film line at its Cincinnati, OH, technology center.

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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Pierce & Stevens Corp., a subsidiary of Sovereign Specialty Chemicals, Inc. (Chicago, IL) has agreed to purchase the flexible packaging coatings business from Valspar Corp.

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New product clearly calls for a tube

When Minneapolis-based Lamaur Corp. added Extra Hold Styling Gel to its Willow Lake® line of hair care products, management wanted to keep the look of the other containers in the Willow Lake line.

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Flexible packaging

Standing up to the competition

By early this summer, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler expects to complete its nationwide rollout of Cheez-It® baked snack mixes in three varieties.

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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. (Peabody, MA) has entered into an agreement to purchase selected mfg. equipment and certain other assets of AEP Industries Inc.'s (South Hackensack, NJ) Proponite OPP films business.

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Flexible packaging

New market means new packaging

Sundried tomatoes are a $20 million category, according to marketing vice president Howard Nager of Sunsweet Growers. To break into this hot market, Pleasanton, CA-based Sunsweet decided to use packaging color and design aimed at appealing to a wider market than it aims for with its well-known prune products.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

DuPont (Wilmington, DE): Velda Jones-Potter, mgr., national sales of Clysar® shrink film; Sandra S. Van Wormer, vp, Clysar® shrink films business.

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Cartoning

Glaxo 'Wellcomes' quick-change software

As Glaxo Wellcome's Zebulon, NC, facility packs a wider variety of pharmaceuticals, quick-changeover equipment becomes top priority. Software developed in-house helps the plant reduce changeover times on its solid-dose packaging lines.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

AET Films (New Castle, DE): Bill Wagamon, dir., sales, multinational accounts; Eric Kusche, account supervisor; Rick Douglass, account supervisor.

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Supplier news: Achievements

ISO 9000 certification: Lansmont Corp. (Monterey, CA); Multifilm Packaging Corp. (Elgin, IL).

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Conveying & accumulation

Fire gives snack baker a clean slate

Fire claimed Pretzels, Inc.'s Indiana headquarters plant on Christmas Eve '97. By the following August, a new plant with a streamlined packaging room had risen from the ashes.

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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.

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