Consumer packaged goods: Page 143

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

FDA to update drug GMPs

Requirements may be eased to help stimulate industry packaging innovation and research.

March 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders

This clip shows operators placing stacks of books and CDs in infeed trays.

February 28, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders

After orders are placed onto corrugated blanks, a scanner reads the bar code on the shipping manifest, placed on top.

February 28, 2003

Closures

Micro Flo: Filling and capping of agrichemical products

From an infeed table, F-style containers enter this 10-station indexing filler-capper from PACK'R North America (Batavia, IL).. Containers are filled at several stations before a closure is applied and torqued on in a two-step process.

February 28, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Micro Flo: Indexing bottles of agrichemicals

At Micro Flo, a worker places empty F-style containers onto this infeed conveyor table. At the end of the table, suction cups grab six containers and transfer them onto a perpendicular conveyor that carries them single file towards an indexing filler-capper.

February 28, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Micro Flo: Labeling of agrichemicals

Each agrichemical bottle at Micro Flo receives a pressure-sensitive label from one of two side-by-side label applicators from Videojet Technologies. When a roll of labels runs out on one machine, the other applicator is employed so that no production time is lost.

February 28, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Leeson Electric: Stainless steel motors

Leeson Electric (Grafton, WI) now offers a full line of premium stainless steel motors that meet the demanding sanitation requirements of the food and chemical processing industries.

February 28, 2003

Flexibles

Sleeve labels deliver 'Black Magic'

The Black Magic brand of auto care products “has heritage and equity in its shine” characteristics, says Jeffrey Lack, group manager of innovations for Shell Lubricants.

February 28, 2003

Flexible packaging

FPA study picks consumers' brains

Qualitative, focus-group research conducted recently by Perception Research Services on behalf of the Flexible Packaging Assn. (Linthicum, MD) arrived at six key conclusions:

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

February 28, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Filler-capper grows savings

Agrichemical products maker Micro Flo adds a 10-station indexing filler-capper for liquids that replaces older equipment. Benefits include labor savings, speed and output increases, and reduced product giveaway.See in-plant video

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Interactive strap pack is wireless

Keeper’s feature-packed I-Pack™ secures the tie-down straps, yet permits consumers to interact with the product on store shelves—all without wires.

February 28, 2003