Secondary Packaging

Case packer

The Pouch Packer from SWF/Dyna-Pak (Sanger, CA) automatically packs stand-up pouches, four-side-sealed and other flexible packages into corrugated cases at speeds to 100 packs/min.

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Flexible packaging

Display case packer for pouches

The Key Display Packer from Key Automation (W. St. Paul, MN) can run up to three lanes of pouches received from a high-speed horizontal form/fill/seal machine.

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Flexibles

Shrink bundling systems

The 501 Series is a high-speed, continuous-motion shrink bundling system. Its bottom overlap seal with printed film capability can be used to wrap pad-supported or unsupported product at speeds to 50 items/min.

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Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrapper

Stretch-O-Seal (Oak Park, IL) has introduced a stretch wrap machine that applies stretch film to multiple containers, thereby eliminating the need for corrugated cartons in some instances.

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

Stand-up resealable bag

A patented stand-up resealable bag from Pack-Tech (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) can be filled through its gusset to eliminate problems encountered by filling through the zipper.

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Flexibles

PP film tape

BrownCor (Milwaukee, WI) has introduced PCS Advantage® PP film tape, which is backed with a natural rubber adhesive for strong sealing properties.

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Flow wrapping

Flow wrapper

Rose Forgrove (St. Charles, IL) will introduce a shrink film version of the servo-driven Minerva rotary jaw flow wrapper. Designed with easy operation and maintenance in mind, it's suited for applications such as bakery, medical, meat and poultry, cosmetics and snack foods.

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Flexibles

Biodegradable film

Ecolopak from Showa Denko Plastic Products (Tokyo, Japan) is a biodegradable film that can be used for snack food or confectionery packaging. It has a high gas barrier so foods will not deteriorate or oxidize.

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Flexibles

Tubing and bags

Kennedy Nylon Films (Tamaqua, PA) has introduced Kenylon heat-stabilized polyamide lay-flat tubing and bottom-sealed bags for autoclave sterilization and clean room packaging.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Case-ready packaging options

Cryovac (Duncan, SC) has developed a brochure outlining an innovative range of case-ready packaging options to help packagers offer a greater variety of pre-packaged, premium-quality foods.

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Flexibles

Tie-layer resin

From Quantum (Cincinnati, OH), Plexar® PX 114 is a heat-stabilized tie-layer resin for use with coextruded blown and cast films that contain a layer of nylon or EVOH.

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Flexibles

Polyolefin shrink films

Epsilon Polyolefin (Newark, NJ) will introduce the OPTI-95 line of biaxally oriented, multi-layer polyolefin shrink films. They are suited for both manual and automated shrink machinery.

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Flexible packaging

Pouches stand up for DuPont awards

For the second year running, stand-up pouches were prominent among winners in the DuPont Awards competition. Markets from around the world are represented in this 10th installment of the annual competition.

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