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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Beverage
Beverage Container Growth
A thriving market for PET-bottled water and the proliferation of single-serve soft drink bottles will propel United States demand for all beverage containers, according to The Freedonia Group.
November 30, 2001
Water: Page 23
Flexibles
Perrier sleeves 1-gal PET bottles
Perrier debuts several of its brands in PET jugs decorated with stretch sleeve labels printed in eight colors. New molding, sleeving equipment highlights revamped lines at two facilities.
November 30, 2001
Palletizing/depalletizing
Nature's Way Purewater: Depalletizing
On this bottled water line, one of two robots from Custom Metal Designs depalletizes bagged layers of 1-gal containers and places them onto the infeed of the debagging system. The output of each of the twin units is nearly two LDPE-bagged layers/min, or a total of 180 containers/min.
September 30, 2001
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Nature's Way Purewater: Rotary filling
On this bottled water line, the 30-valve rotary gravity-flow filler from Federal Mfg. is said to be among the largest in the water industry running at this high speed of 180 cpm. It operates with no container/no fill functionality.
September 30, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Nature's Way Purewater: Lane dividing and case packing
On this bottled water line, servo-operated lane divider directs the jugs from one lane into three lanes ahead of continuous motion case packing. The case packer, from Douglas Machine, meters jugs via paddles to a cam-operated arm that pushes three atop the folded blank, which is erected by vacuum pick-and-place cups.
September 30, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Nature's Way Purewater: Stretch wrapping
On this bottled water line, pallet loads are unitized by an overhead-style stretch wrapper from ITW Mima using 20-ft-wide film. This model at Nature's Way wraps at speeds to one pallet every 12 seconds.
September 30, 2001
Beverage
Beverage container growth
A thriving market for PET-bottled water and the proliferation of single-serve soft drink bottles will propel United States demand for beverage containers, according to The Freedonia Group.
September 30, 2001
Beverage
Water works
Some folks in Suffolk County, NY, want to know more about what’s in their bottled water. A resolution was submitted to the county legislature calling for all bottled water sold in Suffolk County to bear a label listing the organic and inorganic chemicals, and the radiological, biological, and other contaminants in the water.
September 30, 2001
Containers
J-I-T decoration cures logistic challenges
A unique in-plant bottle decorating method at Voss of Norway solves procurement and inventory challenges while reducing breakage by 10%.
August 31, 2001
Closures
Evian's 'Nomad' travels to the U.S.
S.A. Evian Co., Evian, France, introduced its “Nomad” bottled water last summer, first in Europe and then in the United States. The polyethylene terephthalate-bottled water (below left) is topped with an unusual hinged closure molded with a loop.
February 28, 2001
Beverage
'New' InterBev widens focus
With a new show producer, InterBev has become an all-beverage show. New conference and keynote session are among the added features.
October 31, 2000
Flexibles
Purchasing moves 'slow speed ahead'
Pharmaceutical/medical and beverage markets will drive packaging machinery spending this year, says a PMMI study. U.S. domestic equipment sales are expected to rise 2% to 3% in 2000 to $4.9 billion.
September 30, 2000
Sustainability
Plastic's beckoning to beer
Two European brewers are pushing ahead with barrier coatings on PET bottles while a third is expanding its use of coinjected multilayer technology.
March 31, 2000
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