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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Headspace analyzer
Pac Check™ Model 225 headspace analyzer differs from other instruments in the series in that it is a hand-held, portable unit. It’s suitable for use in MAP meat, poultry, coffee, cheese, and snack applications.
December 31, 2002
Food: Page 280
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Debut for heat-set technology
Producing hot-fill PET bottles with the new Contiform H.
December 31, 2002
Confection/Candy
Gray & Company: Robotic case forming of candy boxes
Blanks are opened without vacuum cups using a pin-style erecting system. The case bottom is also glue sealed in this operation.
November 30, 2002
Secondary Packaging
Gray & Company: Case loading for candy producer
Two cases are indexed into position and are pneumatically tilted away from the robot to facilitate loading. After the cases are half filled by the Wexxar machine, with 16-oz cartons, a corrugated divider is inserted before additional rows are loaded to complete the cases. The robot picks and places these cartons at a rate of 60/min.
November 30, 2002
Conveying & accumulation
Gray & Company: Case sealing at candy manufacturer
Cases are discharged from the loader to the Wexxar Model WSH-06 case sealer. The filled cases discharge from the robot and round a short conveyor section to the sealer.
November 30, 2002
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Janes Family Foods: Straight-line carton closing
Carton closing and sealing is done in a straight line at Janes’ North York, Ontario, Canada plant, on a line that produces up to 7ꯠ lb/hr of individually quick-frozen chicken.
November 30, 2002
Filling/capping, dry
Hot fill bottles: Opting for diversity
For PET bottles, the HR process accommodates variations in product, bottle size, weight, fill temperature, blowing rate, and more. Sidel has been developing an array of solutions to respond to these many different packaging criteria.
November 30, 2002
Conveying & accumulation
Wafers won't crumble under robotic handling
Bahlsen, a German manufacturer of cakes and biscuits, has modernized a packaging line with 24 SIG Delta Robots from SIG Pack Systems AG (Beringen, Switzerland).
November 30, 2002
Recycling
Recart takes an important step
Bonduelle, a large European marketer of canned, frozen, and fresh vegetables, plans a March 2003 launch of a variety of vegetables in the Recart™ retortable carton from Tetra Pak (Vernon Hills, IL).
November 30, 2002
Flexibles
UFOs land in holo cartons
Innovative Candy Concepts, Atlanta, GA, is taking candy packaging to a higher level with the introduction of UFOs.
November 30, 2002
Flexibles
Pez juice launched in pouch
In the candy business, Pez in its refillable dispenser is a classic. Now Leading Brands, Inc., is marketing a Pez shelf-stable juice, in a 8.54-oz (250-mL) “no-spill” stand-up pouch topped with a collectible Pez character.
November 30, 2002
Closures
Vial delivers eye-opening ingenuity
Arthur Lifshey, a senior fellow engineer with Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, NJ, is the inventive mind behind the patented Ocumeter® Plus, a high-density polyethylene vial for ophthalmic products.
November 30, 2002
Labels
Very merry graphic design
Just in time for the holiday season, Smith’s Dairy is releasing Moovers Premium eggnog decorated with three of Santa Claus’ elves.
November 30, 2002
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