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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Conveying & accumulation
Carton conveyor cleans up beverage act
As an alternative to roller conveyors, a chain conveyor carries beverage packs 900' without scuffing or marring.
September 30, 1996
Food: Page 386
Flexible packaging
Pack Expo turns packaging concepts into production realities
Packaging containers tend to be the milestones by which packaging advances are measured. But thousands of packagers coming to Pack Expo 96 (November 17-21, McCormick Place, Chicago) will assure you that there would be no visible packaging advances without the unseen contributions of packaging equipment.
September 30, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Robotic case packing sweetens Brach & Brock's bottom line
A top-load robotic pick-and-place machine replaces manual case packing of bagged candy at Brach & Brock Confections, saving the confectioner $150ꯠ in annual labor costs.
September 30, 1996
Additives, coatings & inks
Recycled HDPE pellets
Recycle (S. Plainfield, NJ) has developed a system which can turn HDPE chips accumulated from destroyed drums into clean, high-quality recycled resin pellets.
August 31, 1996
Flexibles
LDPE resin for bags
Quantum (Cincinnati, OH) has designed a new LDPE resin for high-clarity blown and cast films used to make extruded bags that are easy to open for bakery products or produce.
August 31, 1996
Secondary Packaging
HDPE films
Process modifications have improved the tear performance of Monax® Plus oriented HDPE films produced by Tredegar Industries (Richmond, VA). Traditional paper/poly/foil/poly pouches, product overwraps and stand-up pouches are examples of packaging that can benefit from these improved films.
August 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Seaforth puts label on versatility
Upgrade of a hot melt system results in improved labeling for private label manufacturer Seaforth.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
A reusable case for automation
New equipment at Herr Foods is among the first that erects, packs and seals tough-to-handle corrugated cases that are reused up to five times.
August 31, 1996
Sustainable Packaging
Gut check on recycling
Since the appearance of a cover story in the magazine section of the New York Times, June 30, "Recycling Is Garbage," virtually all industry people have been doing some re-evaluating of the subject.
August 31, 1996
Sustainable Packaging
IP revs up recycled linerboard machine
International Paper enters the recycled linerboard manufacturing market with what it touts as "the world's largest recycled linerboard machine." The machine produces up to 1겨 tons/day at IP's Mansfield, LA, mill. Box makers respond positively.
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
Conveying & accumulation
Robotics automate portion packing
Robotic packing cell case-packs delicate portion cups at speeds of 500 cups/min. Integrated system incorporates a stand-alone case erector and automatic tier sheet placer.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
X-ray provides total inspection
A metal detector at the end of each packaging line may be fairly typical for any type of food packaging operation. Herr's tried that route a few years ago, only to experience many false rejects.
August 31, 1996
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