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San Manuel Bottled Water Group: HDPE bottle filling of 2.5-gal bottles
The 2.5-gal bottles are filled by this in-line machine, but the other two HDPE bottles run through a rotary filler.
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Clever layout enhances bottling efficiency (sidebar)
HDPE bottles, too
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ESL moves Marigold into multiple markets
In September, Minneapolis-based Marigold Foods introduced five flavored milk varieties in high-density polyethylene bottles. Ultra-high temperature (UHT) processing yields a 65-day shelf life. The 12-oz Kemps®-brand varieties sell in refrigerated dairy cases of supermarkets, as well as in school vending machines.
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Big containers, big output done Nature's Way
Nature’s Way Purewater fills 180 1-gal containers/min and packs them into 3-count cases at a rate of 60 cases/min. New $4 million, 2000’-long line includes a case packer that accepts 2.5-gal containers, too. See in-plant video
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Big containers, big output done Nature's Way (sidebar)
Bigger containers, shorter line
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Domestic acquisitions, agreements
GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA) and Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) have made an agreement where GE Fanuc will employ Phoenix Contact’s low-density I/O product, Inline, as the foundation for its own I/O product, VersaPoint™.
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Bottled water taps Kidz' market
In recent years, bottled water has made quite a splash with adults. Now Hinckley & Schmitt Bottled Water Co. of Chicago is aiming at kids with Kidz Water(TM), a fluoridated bottled drinking water.
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'Alternative' packs milk sales
In an effort to recapture market share lost to rival beverages, milk processors are turning to more contemporary containers-with strong sales results.
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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Atlantis Plastics (Miami, FL) will sell its blow molding subsidiary, Plastic Containers (Atlanta, GA), to Reid Plastics (Arcadia, CA).