Flexible packaging

Prime Equipment, Inc: Hf/f/s

Prime Equipment's (Spokane, WA) PV-8500 horizontal form/fill/seal system for reclosable zipper pouches runs at speeds up to 22 cycles/min and accommodates flexible, semi-rigid and rigid materials.

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Controls & Machine Components

Form Plastics Co.: Tape IDs pack's date

Form Plastics' (St. Charles, IL) Date-A-Meal tape is said to help foodservice providers identify the date a meal was packed to help assure freshness and safety.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Void-fill system

Fromm Airpad (Naperville, IL) has introduced the Airpad void-fill system, which is said to produce lower cost/cu' than loose-fill, paper, foam or bubble packaging.

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Cartoning

Hoffman: Digital AC servo drives

Indramat (Hoffman Estates, IL) introduces the next-generation Ecodrive-03 family of digital AC servo drives. These drive packages provide an attractive performance/cost ratio for a variety of packaging applications, including random infeeders, vf/f/s machines, horizontal wrappers, cartoners, case packers and palletizers.

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Flexibles

Film label stock

MACtac (Stow, OH) has introduced Impulse, a new bright white film label stock for all types of containers from fully squeezable to rigid. The 3-mil conformable polyolefin is available in two finishes: non-topcoated matte and topcoated satin gloss.

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Employee retention through TLC (sidebar)

Capitalizing on multiple locations

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Teamwork pays off for everyone

Wise and its film suppliers work together to develop a new metallized oriented polypropylene film that can handle the demands of potato chip packaging.

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Conveying & accumulation

Controls for a complex system

The entire operation of the MS700 bowl filling/lidding system running at Sanfilippo is tightly controlled by a SLC 504 programmable logic controller from Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI).

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Conveying & accumulation

Nut bowl offers microwavability and more

Plastic bowl for nuts and snacks is microwavable, reclosable and convenient. Barrier materials extend shelf life, and footed bottom allows stand-up on-shelf display.

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Closures

Beam it down...in size

FDA now says 'irradiation' disclosure on food labels doesn't have to be a 'warning label.' Still, the food industry hopes for more concessions from the Food Safety & Inspection Service.

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Flexibles

Home meal replacements stay hot

With Americans still clamoring for convenience in the kitchen, food marketers find packaging that offers opportunities in the home meal replacement category.

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Flexible packaging

Small machine is big business for coffee roaster

A compact form/fill/seal machine makes a packaging engineer out of an entrepreneur and launches a whole new business in the process.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

A winning combination

A unique label construction for an on-pack game piece provides both security and low cost for the shaver division of BIC Corp.

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