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Easy-open ends

PACK EXPO : Crown Food Packaging USA announced at the show the new addition to its Eole family of easy-open ends.

The new 300-dia end offers improved tab access and is fully interchangeable with existing US profile sanitary ends. This interchangeability results from a unique profile that can accommodate existing US sanitary end seaming chucks, eliminating the need for seamer tooling changes, significantly reducing downtime and increasing efficiency, company says. The end is manufactured with thinner and harder double reduced steel.

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