Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Packaging positions ice cream for upscale sales

Farm Fresh's new all-plastic, rectangular ice cream package features full-coverage, in-mold-labeled graphics, believed to be one of the first applications of its kind in the U.S.

August 31, 1998

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Rubbermaid compacts damage (sidebar)

CertainTeed taps metallocene for compression packaging

August 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Rubbermaid compacts damage

Mop heads are compression-packed to one-third their original size and then shrink-wrapped. Other benefits: lower material costs, zero damage and storage efficiencies.

August 31, 1998

Flexibles

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

CFC Intl., Inc. (Chicago Heights, IL): James Vaughan, product mgr., diffraction film and foils product line.

August 31, 1998

Flexibles

Supplier news: International agreements

Applied Extrusion Technologies (Peabody, MA) has signed a letter of intent to acquire the worldwide film businesses of Montell N.V. (Hoofddorp, the Netherlands).

August 31, 1998

Flexibles

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

AlliedSignal Specialty Films (Morristown, NJ) has announced that the ACLAR® fluoropolymer film capacity expansion at the company's Pottsville, PA, mfg.

August 31, 1998

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Supplier news: International agreements

Klockner Pentaplast of America, Inc. (Gordonsville, VA) has announced immediate plans to form a rigid film mfg. subsidiary in S"o Paulo, Brazil, to be called Klockner Pentaplast do Brasil.

August 31, 1998

Flexibles

Ball Park 'singles' in a winner

Ball Park Singles® are hitting supermarket shelves nationwide this month in what is believed to be the first-ever package containing individually wrapped hot dogs.

August 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Cloud Packaging Equipment: Pouching system

FlexWorks(TM) is a high-speed, continuous-motion pouching system from Cloud Corp. (Des Plaines, IL). It handles most heat-sealable laminates and coextru-sions, including biaxially oriented nylons, polyesters and structured PPs, foils, cellophanes and paper.

July 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Tray packer shrinks changeover time

Tray packing/shrink wrapping line for canned vegetables provides 55-tray/min speeds along with fast, no-tool changeover for Furman Foods.

July 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Elsner Eng. Works: Rewinding/overwrapping line

Elsner Eng. Works (Hanover, PA) has redesigned its HS-800/OWH-800 rewinding and overwrapping production line. Designed for gift wrap, tissue, kraft paper and selected films, the rewinder can be used for core, coreless or sheet-stiffened rewinding.

July 31, 1998

Flexibles

Kraft Foods 'hedges' for cost consistency

Food processor broadens cost-control strategy from ingredients into packaging materials thanks to new 'intermediaries.' Commodity-type contracts provide insurance against material price run-ups.

July 31, 1998

Flexibles

Packaging suppliers in headlights of MACT truck (sidebar)

OSHA complicates EPA compliance

July 31, 1998