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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Digital-on-demand printing opens new markets for converter
Two six-color digital offset presses drive Watson Label Products into the packaging market. Machines specialize in short-run production of flexibles used primarily for prototyping and promotional purposes.
March 31, 1998
Confection/Candy: Page 39
Conveying & accumulation
Foodservice bag displays retail points
Basic American Foods launches a first-of-its-kind bag for dehydrated potatoes sold to foodservice markets. Pointillistic graphics attract customers while the bag reduces secondary packaging.
February 28, 1998
Tamper-evident machinery
Candy with a twist appeals to kids
Come up with a candy package that will appeal to children. That was the challenge issued to the European Consumer Products Div. of Sonoco Products (Hartsville, SC).
January 31, 1998
Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Combo checkweigher/metal detectors save space for Keebler
Compact and highly accurate, combo checkweighers and metal detectors at Keebler's Macon, GA, bakery are meeting special needs.
December 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Stand-up pouch momentum builds worldwide
Innovative shapes and reclosable fitments and zippers were among the more noteworthy advances on display at a two-day stand-up pouch educational clinic sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Dearborn, MI).
December 31, 1997
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Materials and container development lead outsourced functions
Development of packaging materials and containers and the graphics that go on them are the functions most often outsourced, say Packaging World readers. However, packaging machinery selection, packaging line design and integration all make the Top Ten.
November 30, 1997
Flexible packaging
Consumers want better packaging
Friends and family who know I have "something to do with" packaging are always asking me to pass on their packaging complaints, observations and requests.
October 31, 1997
Flexibles
Pleasing consumers with unexpected packaging
Around our way, a Coca-Cola vending machine at the Cleveland Zoo recently surprised my wife and me by delivering a 20-oz contour PET bottle after forcefully pulling a dollar bill out of our hands.
September 30, 1997
Flexible packaging
Nestlé 'Flipz' for new bag
Nestlé Chocolate & Confections, a division of Glendale, CA-based Nestlé U.S.A., introduced Pretzel Flipz(TM) nationwide in August in the Stabilo Bag® from Rovema (Lawrenceville, GA).
August 31, 1997
Flexibles
Confectionery film
UCB Films (Wigton, England) has introduced a cellulose confectionery film. Star-Twist(TM) is said to give up to three times the twist performance of existing materials for a tighter candy wrap, which can increase shelf life.
June 30, 1997
Flexible packaging
Stand-up pouch stands tall on the shelf
A first-of-its-kind rotary hf/f/s machine helps Indiana candy and snack maker Golden Stream introduce 30 products in stand-up pouches. Retailers like the ways pouches can be merchandised; consumers like the resealable zipper that's applied in-line.
June 30, 1997
Confection/Candy
Supplier news:
by 330ꯠ tons/yr. Amoco Polymers will increase its PP capacity by 250ꯠ tons/yr at its Chocolate Bayou chemical plant near Alvin, TX.
June 30, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Static-phase coupling
Candy Controls (Niles, IL) has introduced the Candy Phasing Hub, a static-phase adjusting coupling for angular displacements. When in motion, it operates as a rigid 1:1 shaft coupling.
May 31, 1997
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Rotary Bagger
RotoBagger servo driven rotary bagger from LeafyPack by Plan It Packaging is designed to fill and seal pre-made pouches, is suitable for high-speed production in 24/7 environments, and is capable of producing up to 3,000 bags/hr.
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