Consumer packaged goods: Page 86

Consumer packaged goods

MeadWestvaco one of U.S. top corporate citizens...

CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) Magazine has recognized MeadWestvaco as one of its 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008.

March 5, 2008

Consumer packaged goods

Eco-friendly packing for CDs

Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, has introduced 2 new additions to its green packaging portfolio.

March 4, 2008

Household/Automotive

Special round bottle

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Films with high COF

Pliant has introduced a family of films with unique properties designed to improve converting and packaging processes.

March 4, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Vertical cartoners

ESS Technologies, U.S. distributor of Bergami packaging machinery, offers Bergami’s ASV automatic vertical cartoners as part of a complete packaging line.

March 4, 2008

Sustainability

Wonder Tablitz blitzes NACD awards

Spray bottle with integral cavity wins year's top honor from the National Association of Container Distributors.

March 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

OEE workshop message: just get started!

The first Packaging Line Performance workshop, co-sponsored by ELAU, Schneider Electric and Hartness International, and led by Paul Zepf, the respected OEE expert, yielded hands-on, practical lessons.

March 4, 2008

Consumer packaged goods

Stable servo feedback loops

To ensure stable servo feedback loops for fast commissioning, ELAU’s AutoTune tool automatically defines the correct control parameters after only a few entries.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Carpet cleaner tablet packaging helps clean up environment

The packaging concept for Capture Drop’n Go Deep Cleaning Carpet Tablets, jointly developed by Milliken Chemical, a div. of Milliken & Co., Spartanburg, SC, and North State Flexibles, LLC, has earned an FPA Gold Award in the Environmental and Sustainability Achievement category.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Bourbon chicken graphics are intoxicating

A stand-up pouch provides an ideal billboard at retail to showcase tasty, inviting food photography and consistent, colorful brand imagery for Perdue’s Bourbon Chicken, a frozen, cooked chicken breast product.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Better bags are the cat's meow

Sometimes looks do count. Such was the case for Nestlé Purina Pet Care Fancy Feast Gourmet Gold cat food, which earned a gold for printing achievement for Nordenia U.S.A.. The better-looking bags also reflect functional improvements.

March 4, 2008

Flexible packaging

Nuspark makes custom packaging standard

Compact vertical and horizontal cartoning, case erecting & packing, robotic pick & place – Nuspark does it all and more. And they build customized solutions from pre-engineered packaging modules, a perfect fit for ELAU Intelligent Servo Module technology.

March 3, 2008