Flexibles

Release sheets

Winlon® Release Sheets from Winzen Film (Dallas, TX) are an alternative to coated paper sheets and are approved by the USDA and FDA. The sheets are available from 0.5 to 0.8 mil and in standard sizes from 7.5" x 7.5" to 22" x 28", as well as custom thicknesses and sizes.

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Flexible packaging

Rotary leak tester

The Wilcomat K-F is a non-destructive rotary leak tester from Packaging Technologies & Inspection (Tuckahoe, NY) capable of testing leak and seal integrity of shelf-stable flexible pouches.

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Controls & Machine Components

Fin-seal wrapper

The Superflow® PC is a new electronic fin-seal wrapper from Ilapak (Newtown, PA) that uses an industrial PC for faster output, increased memory and greater capabilities over PLCs, says Ilapak.

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Flexibles

Stretch film recycling

Trex (Winchester, VA) will buy excess PE film and remove it for recycling. Recyclable materials include stretch film, pallet wrap and plastic grocery bags.

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Flexibles

Clear object detector

Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI) has introduced the Series 10ꯠ Photoswitch ClearSight sensor, suitable for bottling and packaging applications.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

The king of cups

Start-up company Dr. McDougall's Right Foods had lofty targets for packaging speed and accuracy. So it invested heavily in sophisticated packaging equipment before it even had a product ready for the marketplace.

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Flexible packaging

Multipack cartoner

Model TC-60ST multipack cartoner is an intermittent-motion cartoner from Tisma Machinery (Elk Grove Village, IL) designed for pouched, bagged, wrapped, cartoned and blister-packed products.

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Flexibles

Retention pack cuts costs for HP

At Hewlett-Packard's Roseville, CA, parts distribution facility, a relatively new form of protective packaging has slashed packaging material costs by half, warehouse space requirements by two-thirds and packaging assembly time by 75%.

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Secondary Packaging

Sara Lee launches MAP-packed Bragels

Modified atmosphere packaging that gives filled bagels a seven-day non-refrigerated shelf life may provide another reason why nobody doesn't like Chicago-based Sara Lee®.

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Flexible packaging

What price flexibility?

Mexican pharmaceuticals maker Byk Gulden relies on ink-jet coding to react faster when economic conditions require price changes to already-marked packages.

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Flexibles

Plastics under seige in Massachusetts

A plastics recycling bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts state Senate that would, if passed, doom the sale of most plastic packaging. The bill bans plastic packaging for consumer products unless at least 80% of Massachusetts residents have access to plastics recycling facilities by December 31, 2000.

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Flexibles

Return of the 'domino theory' (sidebar)

Has EPA been wounded?

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Flexibles

Supplier news: International agreements

Pactiv Inc. (Evanston, IL) signed a definitive agreement to purchase the protective and flexible packaging division of NV Koninklijke KNP BT (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

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