Controls & Machine Components

All-Fill Inc: Piston fillers

The Series 505 heavy-duty single-nozzle piston fillers from All-Fill (Creamery, PA) are designed to fill liquids, creams, pastes, gels and other viscous products containing particulate matter up to 4/5" in dia.

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Closures

Child-resistant closure

Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) has introduced the 22-mm CR-Jigger(TM), a child-resistant closure for automotive additive applications. Available in prototype form, the 22 CR-Jigger adapts easily to a child-resistant neck finish and comes in a variety of colors.

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Consumer packaged goods

Book explains bar-code technologies

Baffled by bar codes?

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Flexible packaging

Consumers want better packaging

Friends and family who know I have "something to do with" packaging are always asking me to pass on their packaging complaints, observations and requests.

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Additives, coatings & inks

Antiblock concentrate

Available from Millennium Petrochemicals (Cincinnati, OH) is an antiblock concentrate formulated for use in extruding LDPE and LLDPE at temperatures from 325° to 550°F.

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Flexible packaging

'Alternative' packs milk sales

In an effort to recapture market share lost to rival beverages, milk processors are turning to more contemporary containers-with strong sales results.

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Flexible packaging

Unit-dose packaging for the garden

Consumers crave convenience, so this lawn and garden products manufacturer serves it up: single-dose pouches of home insecticides.

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Sustainability

USDA/FDA wrap new demands around meat, poultry packaging

No longer will food companies accept self-certification from vendors. In fact, some new packaging has already been pulled from the market.

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Conveying & accumulation

Seagram salutes the end of tweaking

Seagram combines two bottling lines into one medium-speed line for a broad variety of spirits in glass bottles. Quick-change parts for cleaning, filling, capping and conveying equipment reduce downtime and labor costs.

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Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Chevron Chemical Co., U.S. Chemicals Div. (Houston, TX): J. R. Boots, business mgr.-HDPE.

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Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI) and Sentinel Products Corp. (Hyannis, MA) have formed a joint venture to manufacture and sell extruded polyolefin and engineered metallocene foams globally.

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Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Technologies from Univation Technologies (Houston, TX) have been licensed to Exxon Chemical Co. (Houston, TX) for its planned PE plant in Singapore.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

'Suppliers must source tag!'

"Manufacturers who have vision are already source tagging. Now we must convince the rest of them that source tagging is in their best interest." Such was the message delivered by Enzo Cerra, senior vp of marketing for Largo, FL-based Eckerd Corp., to packagers, manufacturers and retailers at a recent meeting of the RF Users Group in Chicago last month.

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