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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Bagging & Pouching
Wrapping
Flexibles
Web treatment, film making
Montalvo (Portland, ME): The X/D-3000 CE load cell/dancer controller is for use with applications that employ a dancer arm. Designed to process imperfect rolls, its closed-loop feedback regulates air pressure on the load cylinder.
May 31, 1997
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Flexibles
Label film
SqueezLabel from Ritrama Duramark (Minneapolis, MN) is a new label material designed to meet the demands of squeezable containers. The PE-based copolymer allows cross-directional flexibility.
May 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Bag and pouch making
GN Packaging Equipment (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada): Medical pouch machines, GN26MP and GN36MP, produce pouches from webs to 26" and 36" widths, respectively.
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Electronics packaging
A translucent sheet of Eastman's PETG copolyester with a specially developed black electro-conductive coating is available from Lustro Plastics (Evanston, IL).
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Web treatment, film making
Extrusion Dies (Chippewa Falls, WI): Manufacturers of cast film, sheet or coatings can change the sequencing of material layers without having to block off flow channels or disassemble the feedblock with the Ultraflow I-S coextrusion feedblock.
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Web treatment, film making
Black Clawson (Fulton, NY): The company has received patents for both its barrier and low-shear mixing screw designs specially engineered for processing metallocene resins.
May 31, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Refrigeration language guidance steams food companies
Many food packagers resist FDA guidance on more explicit labeling language for refrigerated foods.
May 31, 1997
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Gauging demand for calendered plastics
Consistent sheet thickness and economics make calendered plastics appealing to thermoformers. How are plastics calendered? What are the current developments in calendering? Packaging World takes a look.
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
NPE 1997 delivers a 'world of plastics'
Billed as the world's largest plastics exposition this year, NPE 1997 expects more than 1귔 exhibitors and 75ꯠ visitors at Chicago's McCormick Place between June 16 and 20. A technology-oriented conference program focusing on plastics trends will feature at least 100 industry experts.
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Web treatment, film making
Corotec (Farmington, CT): Ozone applicator is said to double or triple the bond strength between substrates and increase production rates for makers of extrusion-coated and laminated products.
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Gauging demand for calendered plastics (sidebar)
Calendering developments show steady growth
May 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Case packer solves tissue issue
Unusual case packer at Georgia-Pacifics Bellingham plant employs an infeed laning system and a rotating bucket to load various prewrapped multipacks of bathroom tissue into corrugated cases.
May 31, 1997
Flexibles
Applications news
Oskosh, WI-based OEC Graphics is reported to be the first in the U.S. to install the digilas® computer-to-plate system made by Schepers of Germany.
May 31, 1997
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Introducing Columbia Machine's FLD1500-SW: a Compact, High-Efficiency Palletizer with Integrated “Stack and Wrap” Technology
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Columbia Machine unveiled the FLD1500-SW, which features a fully integrated stretch wrapper to achieve efficient, simultaneous "stack and wrap" load building within a 90-square-foot footprint.
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