Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Pennzoil buttons up coder problems

New small-character ink-jet coders provide one-button shutdown and start-up while cutting maintenance time by at least 50% compared to previous coders.

October 31, 1998

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Supplier news: Achievements

TAPPI'S polymers, laminations & coatings div. has recognized three individuals with awards: Thomas I. Butler of Dow Chemical Co. received the 1998 Leadership & Service Award and Andreas Ahlbrandt Prize; George E.

October 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Plastic packs let Jobe's grow outdoors

Easy Gardener introduces a stand-up pouch and overwrapped "cookie pack" for its outdoor plant, tree and garden fertilizers. Replacing paperboard cartons, the plastic packs withstand moisture in flourishing outdoor lawn-and-garden centers.

October 31, 1998

Sustainable Packaging

People do make the difference

By now, you know that Packaging World doesn't frivolously publish editorials. This month, I'm turning over this editorial space to John Wasserlein, who, just a few months before his retirement from Fraser Papers (Stamford, CT) as president and CEO, addressed the graduates at the University of Maine with a message that's at the core of our special reports on recruiting and retaining talented employees.

October 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Organic labeling

USDA is expected to issue a second draft of its organic labeling regulations by the end of the year. Bowing to pressure from the organics industry, the latest draft will include a stricter definition of what can be labeled organic.

October 31, 1998

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Exxon Chemical Americas' North American Polyethylene Div. will serve as the organization's materials liason for consulting and training.

October 31, 1998

Consumer packaged goods

Hurricane relief

In the aftermath of Hurricane Georges on the Gulf Coast, an unusual line of shelf-stable entrees helped feed inhabitants at shelters when the storm cut local power.

October 31, 1998

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: International agreements

Mafatlal Industries, Ltd. (Mumbai, India), NOCIL (Mumbai, India), Montell Polyolefins (Hoofddorp, the Netherlands) and Shell Chemicals Ltd.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

M & M Industries Inc: Open-head container

The Life Latch® Superseal from M & M Industries (Chattanooga, TN) is an open-head container that can seal moisture in or out. It holds a vacuum, seals in a liquid and can be tightened-yet it opens like a household jar.

September 30, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc: Auger filler

From Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) comes a new brochure on its line of Digitronic® auger fillers used to package dry materials in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

September 30, 1998

Flexible packaging

Innovations in plastics help foods flourish

Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.

September 30, 1998

Flexible packaging

Aseptic PE/EVOH/PE bottles hold shelf-stable infant formula

Infant formula isn't a category where you normally find a lot of packaging innovation. But this summer has brought us two interesting packaging advances in the "mother's milk" replacement business.

September 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

A new record for distributed control

Music distributor Valley Media cuts downtime by more than 50% on its newest labeling/sortation/collating line. A network of micro PLCs controls the line as well as gathers performance data to speed troubleshooting.

September 30, 1998