Sustainability

Smart's light still burns bright

Smart packaging thrives, with innovations that drive greater brand marketing and product communication, as well as enhance product quality and safety.

October 4, 2008

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Controls & Machine Components

Keeping motion and logic separate

This builder of liquid filling machines maintains its belief in a motion controller that is separate from the PLC that governs a machine’s logic.

October 4, 2008

Closures

'Fun' closure a production problem solver

It’s not just its carriers and cases that are innovative. Solomon Wine Co. has topped its Muse-brand bottles with Zork closures from Zork USA, a division of Portola Packaging, Inc. (www.portpack.com).

October 4, 2008

Closures

Muse puts the fun into functional wine packaging

Solomon Wine Co. releases a display-ready case of carrier-packed wines topped with an easy-to-reuse ‘cork.’

October 4, 2008

Labels

Bottle as art grows Mountain Dew's market share

Limited edition aluminum ‘bottlecan’ series expanded from six to 12 labels.

October 3, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Lessons learned

Purdue Pharma has learned several valuable lessons as it’s proceeded with its RFID implementation.

October 3, 2008

Beverage

Bulk bag loaders

BEST bulk bag loaders from Metso Minerals Industries are easy to operate and feature state-of-the-art technology in weighing and loading systems.

October 3, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

Servos deliver robotic dexterity

Multipacks of refrigerated dessert cups have been ‘discovered’ by German food marketers and their consumers. At Campina, better automation was required.

October 2, 2008

Flexibles

Energy drinks hit high gear in shrink-sleeved multipacks

A drink for female off-roading enthusiasts is ‘pretty in pink,’ and in silver, and in black.

October 2, 2008

Closures

PET-packed beer gets longer life

Barrier packaging guarantees German brew a shelf life of six months.

October 2, 2008

Flexibles

Bite-sized dogs are in the bag

Oscar Mayer Mini Hot Dogs, in a compact, stand-up pouch, epitomize grab-and-go snacking.

October 2, 2008

Flexibles

Tanning line saturated in 360-deg color

Full-body shrink-sleeve labels adorn slender-neck bottles to create a stir.

October 2, 2008

Flexibles

Wine debuts in barrier-coated PET bottles

In March 2008, Artisan Wine Co., British Columbia, introduced to Canadian markets its Painted Turtle brand Semillion/Chardonnay and Cabernet/Shiraz wines in 750-mL silicon oxide-coated PET bottles from Ball Corp. (www.ball.com).

October 2, 2008