Ela FruscioneConveying & accumulationDowntime shrinks with new wrappersWhen Georgia-Pacific needed to speed up wrapping rates for its 9” Dixie paper plates, management picked servo-driven, side-seal shrink wrappers that maintain high speed and tight registration.April 30, 2001ClosuresLooney Tunes brand milkBugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes friends are now chilling out in the refrigerated milk department of retail outlets. On March 19, Bravo! Foods, of North Palm Beach, FL, introduced Looney Tunes brand flavored milk in a clear high-density polyethylene bottle that is decorated with a heat-shrink polyvinyl chloride label from Seal-It (Farmingdale, NY).March 31, 2001Conveying & accumulationRayovac pegs a six-packRayovac, Madison, WI, launched a new six-pack AA battery package in November 2000. It uses clear, reclosable recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) clamshells in combination with a hole-punched header card that makes it peggable for display.March 31, 2001BeverageDrink can does a one-eightySt. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch launched energy drink 180 in 30 U.S. markets in late January. The single 8-oz slim-line can is decorated with the 180 logo placed right side up on one side and inverted 180 degrees on the opposite side of the can.March 31, 2001HomeMaterials purchasing: label converter orders online“I just wish more people would get on the bandwagon,” says Gary Wright, plant manager of Virtucon International Printing, Carlsbad, CA, when Net Sourcing asked about his experience with online purchasing.January 31, 2001Flexible packagingNo-strings-attached tea bagHonest Tea, Bethesda, MD, launched a whole-leaf, natural tea line in fall 2000, sealed in what it calls a first-of-its-kind integral "Tag-and-Bag" supplied by Copack Intl. (Carlstadt, NJ). This nonwoven, filter tea bag and tag replaces the standard string, staple and printed tag. A four-side, sealed kraft overwrap pouch locks in the freshness.January 31, 2001Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materialsAll-purpose medical packAn award-winning thermoform package for Becton Dickinson’s surgical scalpel serves as a sterile barrier, a protective shipper, a sterile transfer tray from preparation to operating rooms and a point-of-use product dispenser. A blue-tint PETG outer tray, HIPS inner tray and a Tyvek lid replace an injection-molded box and foam insert.January 31, 2001Conveying & accumulationSpare Parts Purchasing: Online Parts Buyers Find the Right TrackGo to www.barry-wehmiller.com. Click on the Parts folder. Log in. Type in your part number. Select desired quantity.January 31, 2001Blisters/clamshells/skin packagingLight shines on carded blisterNetherlands-based Philips Lighting Co. packages its Marathon brand of nonincandescent household bulbs to the American market in a carded pack that contains a recycled, amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (APET) blister set in an outer card. Changing from solid unbleached sulfate board to recycled board helped make an ecologically friendly, cost-saving package.January 31, 2001ClosuresPET pack added to mayo spreadBestfoods has added a squeezable, clear PET container to its Hellman’s mayonnaise line, which is packaged in standard glass containers. The new 18-oz Big Squeeze container is topped off with a 0.250”-orificed polypropylene flip-top dispensing closure, pigmented in dark and light blue.December 31, 2000Previous PagePage 3 of 4Next PageTop StoriesDairyNew Tillamook Ice Cream Plant Features Packaging Line Built to ScaleWith a two-floor layout and plans for further automation, the Decatur, Ill., facility’s packaging line is built to support production growth ahead.RecyclingPackaging Recycling Professionals Gathered in Person and Remotely for this Year's Packaging Recycling SummitRoboticsThrough the Line: Robotic Cookie Multi-pack Automation SystemPackage DesignKind Leans on Familiar Elements in New Brand DesignSponsor ContentAXTRA: Engineering efficient bottling & packaging lines
