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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Beverage
Latin America: this can's for you
Since October, Bud drinkers across most of Latin America found the venerable brew in a fluted aluminum can. St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch is rolling out the new 12-oz, 211-dia can as a permanent replacement for standard cans of Budweiser in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica and Belize.
November 30, 1996
Beer: Page 61
Secondary Packaging
Palletizer/horizontal case packer
Schneider Packaging Equipment (Brewerton, NY) will show the new Eagle 50 Robotic Palletizer, manufactured by Italy's Gruppo Elettric 80, fully integrated with the Schneider high-speed, servo-driven, horizontal case packer.
October 31, 1996
Sustainability
R&D managers urged to see the global picture
Packaging research and development managers will need to expand their view beyond the four walls of the corporate fortress. That means paying closer attention to the economics of R&D decisions, and understanding the company's international role.
October 31, 1996
Sustainable Packaging
Shrinking U.S. glass container industry will likely raise prices next year
Paper. Metal. Plastic. Glass. In roughly that order, those are the materials from which packages have been made in the United States for the last half of the 20th century.
October 31, 1996
Beverage
R&D managers urged to see the global picture (sidebar)
The perils of international sourcing
October 31, 1996
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Pack Expo Plus: Seminars, conferences and allied shows
High-tech packaging solutions, new resin technologies, healthcare packaging, and better sealing technologies are just a few of the areas covered in conferences and seminars during Pack Expo week.
September 30, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Components assume new importance in packaging
Conveyors, coding and marking machines, and motors and drives are the components best-known to packagers who have production and engineering responsibilities.
September 30, 1996
Beverage
Paper deposit law?
Paperboard packaging may inadvertently get caught up in Oregon's deposit law if voters approve a referendum on the November ballot expanding the law to include other types of drinks.
September 30, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Automated case handling
The Freeway System from Schneider Packaging Equipment (Brewerton, NY) automates the transporting and palletizing of packed cases. It can be retrofitted onto most packaging lines, says the company.
September 30, 1996
Beverage
Tropicana tries shelf-stable OJ in PET (sidebar)
Others like PET gallons, too
September 30, 1996
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Bass wraps up market flexibility
A highly flexible multipacker wraps 4-, 6- and 10-count bottles in paperboard to help Bass meet demands of disparate retail markets at home and abroad. Automatic servo-driven dimensional changeover takes 15 seconds.
August 31, 1996
Secondary Packaging
Pairing pack styles with markets
With Bass's vast reach to more than 70 different export markets, what determines which pack style is used for a given market?
August 31, 1996
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Now beverage cans will open wide-- really, really wide
Suddenly, it seems, U.S. brewers are looking to change one of the most popular and endearing features of their cans--the easy-opening features. Last month (See PW, August '96, page 8), we reported on the conversion by Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, from its standard, easy-opening stay-on tab (SOT) end to a large opening end (LOE) developed for Miller by Reynolds Metals Co.
August 31, 1996
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Pneumatic Scale Angelus introduces the CB100C rotary counter-pressure filler featuring a 12-head rotary filling turret design, coupled with a dual-station seamer, to allow craft beverage producers to increase their throughput to more than 100 cans/min.
Depalletizer for Breweries
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