Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: New software for controls

Baldor’s (Fort Smith, AR) 18H Vector Control and 23H Servo Control now feature H Series software that allows presetting of up to 8 incremental position moves and 6 absolute moves with a return to home.

August 31, 2000

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Closures

Sourcing globally, clicking locally

The Body Shop pares down on time needed to research containers by tapping into a global, multivendor online stock container catalog.

August 31, 2000

Cosmetics/Personal care

Capital Machinery E-sales on Hold

Though business-to-business electronic exchanges may one day make a dent in the packaging marketplace, very little is happening now in the way of point, click and buying of capital equipment online.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Battle brewing over child-resistant caps

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering mandating child-resistant closures for cosmetics, cleaning solvents and auto products, among others.

August 31, 2000

Flexibles

Growth accelerates in flexible materials

Volume of flexible packaging materials continues to outpace growth in both the overall economy and for all of packaging. FPA report does identify some potential problems, however.

August 31, 2000

Contract Packaging

PW tours Japan

Executive editor Pat Reynolds recently took advantage of a unique opportunity to tour three packaging operations in Japan. Included on the itinerary: Sapporo Breweries, Ltd., Daiwa Can and Kose.

July 31, 2000

Cosmetics/Personal care

High-speed graphics

To help meet the demand for NASCAR-related merchandise, Los Angeles-based Rovar Soap has created a line of “high-performance” soap products in bottles with a high-speed edge.

July 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

wp industries, inc.: Wire mesh containers

Folding, resuable wire mesh containers, developed by awp industries, inc. (Frankfort, KY), are rated for a maximum capacity of 4ꯠ lb.

July 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Radius brushes away excess costs

Shrink sleeve bundling system enables Radius to unitize plastic cases of its unusual toothbrushes in film sleeves rather than the more costly folding cartons it had used.

July 31, 2000

Containers

Mission impossible?

Congress is trying to forge an agreement between branded product marketers and product diverting companies for packaging codes that help in product recalls.

July 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Hologram enhances Schick FxDiamond™ shaver

When the Schick/Wilkinson Sword Div. released the Schick FxDiamond™, a shaver with a diamond coating on the blades, it turned to Fisher Design (Cincinnati, OH) to create a package that’s as distinctive and “dazzling” as the product.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

KISS Packaging Systems a div. of the Frain Group: Positive displacement filler

The automatic positive displacement filler from KISS (Addison, IL) fills 1-oz to 1-gal glass or plastic bottles with lotions, creams, oils, gels and other viscous liquids.

June 30, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

UVA risk questioned

Sunscreen labels give little indication of the amount of protection from harmful UVA rays.

June 30, 2000