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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Vacuum skin packaging

Cryovac, a div. of W.R. Grace & Co. (Duncan, SC), has released a brochure on the company's vacuum skin packaging system. VSP allows shoppers to see the natural shape, color and texture of ready-to-prepare foods, cheeses, deli meats and other items.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Film enhancement

An eight-page color brochure from Courtaulds Performance Films (Martinsville, VA) presents the company's services for design and production of enhanced plastic films.

September 30, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Half-gallon aseptic carton is a first

Farmland Dairies is the first to pack a low-acid beverage in an aseptic carton this large. Shelf stability permits nontraditional placement in-store. Automatic in-line pour spout applicator is also the first of its kind.

September 30, 1996

Flexible packaging

Pack Expo turns packaging concepts into production realities

Packaging containers tend to be the milestones by which packaging advances are measured. But thousands of packagers coming to Pack Expo 96 (November 17-21, McCormick Place, Chicago) will assure you that there would be no visible packaging advances without the unseen contributions of packaging equipment.

September 30, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Robotic case packing sweetens Brach & Brock's bottom line

A top-load robotic pick-and-place machine replaces manual case packing of bagged candy at Brach & Brock Confections, saving the confectioner $150ꯠ in annual labor costs.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Polyethylene film

Delta Plastics (Newark, NJ) is introducing the new DeltuffTM 9500 series of PE film. It employs a new generation of linear resins that increase film strength up to five times that of conventional LDPE.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Films for teas, coffee

Wolff Walsrode (Walsrode, Germany) provides multilayer films for packaging coffee, tea or instant products. For vacuum packing of ground coffee, Walopeel L products have an easy-peel sealing layer with a constant seal strength through a broad range of temperatures.

August 31, 1996

Flexible packaging

Vertical form/fill/seal

The Integra II from Sasib Packaging North America (Skokie, IL) is a form/fill/seal machine that produces a pillow-style pouch designed for dry, free-flowing products.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

Label film for squeeze bottles

New Fasson® Crystal FasClear® TC from Fasson Films (Painesville, OH) is a 2.5-mil top-coated, coextruded polyolefin film designed for application to squeeze bottles used in the health and beauty or pharmaceutical industries.

August 31, 1996

Flexible packaging

Bagging machine

Rovema's (Lawrenceville, GA) SBS/250 continuous-motion vertical form/fill/seal machines can produce the Stabilo Bag and Stabilo Box at speeds to 120/min.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

LDPE resin for bags

Quantum (Cincinnati, OH) has designed a new LDPE resin for high-clarity blown and cast films used to make extruded bags that are easy to open for bakery products or produce.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

Nylon resins brochure

AlliedSignal Plastics (Morristown, NJ) introduces its B Series Capron HPN® High Productivity Nylon Resins for food and packaging film applications in a new brochure that includes a resin sample.

August 31, 1996