Consumer packaged goods: Page 165

Contract Packaging

Canisters to rev up sales

Honeywell Consumer Products Group broke with tradition and selected what it calls a first-for-the-category composite can to package its FRAM® X2™ Extended Guard Oil Filters.

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Consumer packaged goods

Cleaning up the codes

Contract packager Angeles Chemical Co. was experiencing too much downtime with the coder it was using to code retail packages of the solvents and chemicals it packs.

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Contract Packaging

Supplier partnerships encouraged in purchasing

Most companies that participated in Packaging World’s vendor consolidation survey encouraged partnership arrangements with suppliers. All respondents expect better price and service, but others seek on-site technical help, supply guarantees and materials price hedging opportunities.

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Prepared Foods

How OEMs can improve training

Respondents to Packaging World’s online training survey have a long list of changes they’d like equipment builders to make in their training programs.

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Cosmetics/Personal care

Plant personnel decry lack of training

Although most participants in this summer’s training survey (see p. 116) had management roles, the same recognition of training also comes from the plant floor.

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Prepared Foods

Packagers eager for more training

More than ever before, training on equipment and components is seen as a vital need to companies that make all types of products. However, the lack of time and lukewarm company commitments are major obstacles, and the quality of training is also criticized.

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Flexibles

Purchasing moves 'slow speed ahead'

Pharmaceutical/medical and beverage markets will drive packaging machinery spending this year, says a PMMI study. U.S. domestic equipment sales are expected to rise 2% to 3% in 2000 to $4.9 billion.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ocean Spray rides a new bus (sidebar)

Controls package illustrated

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Ocean Spray rides a new bus

On a new Craisins line at Ocean Spray, point-to-point wiring between machine devices and their master PLC has been replaced on some machines by an open fieldbus called AS-i. Installation time is slashed, while in-plant flexibility is maximized.

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Flexibles

Electronics controls new technology at Pack Expo (sidebar)

Packaging pioneers honored

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Positively different battery packaging (sidebar)

A tubular Leap

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Hardware products renovate with packaging (sidebar)

Lenticular: Imagery in motion

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