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Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

W.R. Grace Co. (Boca Raton, FL) has entered an agreement to combine its packaging business with Sealed Air Corp. (Saddle Brook, NJ), forming a new company, retaining the Sealed Air name and headquarters.

September 30, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: International agreements

Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI) intends to purchase Sentrachem Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), a producer of specialty and agricultural chemicals, as well as PP, PE, latex and rubber products.

September 30, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Chevron Chemical Co., PE operations, (Orange, TX): Jeffrey Taylor, plant mgr.; George Avdey, sales mgr.

September 30, 1997

Converting equipment

A different type of kitchen cleanser

Bushberry Deodorizing Liquid Soap for hands is available in scents like cucumber, lemon, vanilla and oatmeal, so it has a definite kitchen and garden tone.

September 30, 1997

Closures

Solvent-resistant closures

Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) is now offering three solvent-resistant versions of its FG Series child-resistant closures. The two-piece closures incorporate a push-and-turn design and feature a chemical-resistant, polyester undercap with a PP overcap.

August 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Insourcing springs savings for AquaPenn

In an on-site container production partnership first, bottle maker Schmalbach-Lubeca leases a portion of AquaPenn's facility to reheat and blow PET preforms into bottles that AquaPenn fills at the same site.

August 31, 1997

Flexible packaging

Packaging revolution IS changing everything

"This changes everything." That line, taken from a recent crop of Chrysler ads, would have us believe the company's doing something revolutionary in its field.

August 31, 1997

Protective/transport packaging

Engineers paid well to handle changes (sidebar)

Do companies increasingly push individuals' limits?

August 31, 1997

Beverage

Graphis Packaging 7 a resourceful package

Question: When Graphis Packaging 7 arrives, the newest volume in the Graphis series of books, should it be placed on the coffee table or on a shelf with other packaging reference books?

August 31, 1997

Beverage

Soaring demands, shrinking resources

Readers are concerned with unequal pay, heavier workloads for shrinking staffs, and constant crisis control. Packaging World's first exclusive salary and job satisfaction survey reveals a majority are content with their paychecks.

August 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

'Open wide!' Down the hatch go GMPs for dietary supplements

FDA may force-feed HACCP system to manufacturers. Companies threaten to gag on new rules.

August 31, 1997

Cosmetics/Personal care

Engineers paid well to handle changes

Packaging engineers earn a good income and many received a healthy pay raise last year, according to Packaging World's exclusive salary survey. But many feel their effectiveness is limited by perpetual crisis management, downsizing and unrealistic schedul

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