Sustainability

German medical products maker bags new IV material

Serum-Werk Bernburg introduces IV bags for hospital use in a new structure that eliminates the need for an overwrap. New hf/f/s machines at a new plant fill medical solutions into the bags.

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Controls & Machine Components

DuPont Packaging: DuPont Packaging: Shrink film

DuPont (Wilmington, DE) Clysar® ABL shrink film is a clear, biaxially oriented, heat-shrinkable, linear low/ultra low-density polyolefin film.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Multivac Inc: Vacuum packing

Multivac's (Kansas City, MO) C 700 large-chamber vacuum packaging machine is designed for large-scale vacuum packaging of bulk products or products of varying sizes in film pouches.

December 31, 1998

Labels

Labelers deliver quick changeover

Neways' p-s labeling equipment accommodates a wide variety of containers, speeds product changeover by 30% and reduces rejects ten-fold.

December 31, 1998

Cartoning

Tf/f/s machine big on performance, not price

Contract packager finds Argentine-built thermoform/fill/seal blister packaging equipment provides fast and flexible changeover capabilities at an economical price.

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Flexible packaging

Ryt-way opens to reclosable pouches for pet foods (sidebar)

Downstream of its pouch-filling equipment, Ryt-way has also added new robotic case packing and case erecting equipment to automate what was once a labor-intensive process.

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Supplier news: Achievements

The Flexible Packaging Assn.'s (Washington, DC) 1997 Top Packaging Awards video presentation has won the second highest honor, a Gold Circle Award Certificate of Achievement, from the American Society of Assn.

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Supplier news: Achievements

Colleen E. Mueller, a University of Wisconsin-Stout student, was awarded a $1ꯠ scholarship by the Flexible Packaging Assn.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Uniplast® Films (Orillia, Ontario, Canada): David Douse, president, Canadian operations; Gary Penna, president, U.S. operations.

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Supplier news: International agreements

R.A. Jones & Co., Inc. has partnered with CMA (Moirax-Agen, France), Harro Hofliger (Allmersbach, Germany) and Nor-Reg AS (Honefoss, Norway) to offer vertical cartoning machines, horizontal pouching machines and pouch cartoning equipment, respectively.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

AET Films (New Castle, DE): Terry Baker, dir., sales, label films; P. Terce Henriquez, dir., sales, North America.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Mobil Chemical Co. (Pittsford, NY), Films Div.: James P. Ashmore, sales and marketing mgr., Americas; A.R. (Andy) Purdue, Americas business unit gen.

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Flexibles

Dairy bottle blocks light?

In unveiling last month a bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate for 16-oz milk, Dallas-based Schepps Dairy was not the first to put fresh, refrigerated milk in PET (see Packaging World, November '97, p.

December 31, 1998