Coding, Printing & Labeling

Rectangular Spam cans upgrade to BOPP labels

For those of us who can remember the 1950s, being "spammed" has taken on new meaning. This is not something that affects the twentysomething and younger crowd much.

April 30, 1998

Cosmetics/Personal care: Page 115

Filling/capping, dry

Cosmetics are big winners in packaging competition

Additional NACD award winners:Food category

April 30, 1998

Closures

Clarification

In the February '98 issue of Packaging World, p. 4, the dispensing closure used on Black Gold creme and lotion was referred to generically as a "eurostyle" closure.

April 30, 1998

Closures

HDPE bottle

Twin City Bottle (Minneapolis, MN) has designed its Apothecary bottle for use with lotions, hand soaps and other products. Extrusion blown in HDPE, the 250-mL (8.45-oz) bottle has "extended" round shoulders and a 28/400 finish compatible with most closures, pumps and sprayers.

March 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Dual-panel labeling saves General Time

A dual-panel corner-wrap labeler saves $50ꯠ per year over hand labeling and eliminates cumbersome preprinted label inventory.

March 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

New machines and materials fuel prepackaged fresh beef

An unusual foam tray, seven-layer coextruded lidding, a high-speed rotary backflushing/lidding machine, and weigh/price labeling let this Florida meat packer respond to supermarket demand for case-ready ground beef.

March 31, 1998

Cosmetics/Personal care

Acid-etched look for plastic

When the owners at Hair Success wanted to introduce a line of haircare products to sell in their salons in and near Fargo, ND, they knew only an upscale look would do.

March 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Hair volumizers launch in brushed aluminum

A unique aerosol can with a brushed aluminum finish and complementary oversized aluminum overcap is providing an upscale look for Minneapolis, MN-based Regis Corp.'s Volum hair volumizer product line.

March 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Illicit relabeling

Eight trade associations are banding together to develop model legislation to fight the problem of flea market vendors who sell outdated or stolen products whose packaging may be mislabeled or illegally altered.

March 31, 1998

Containers

Lotion container

The Oval Modified Eurotube, a high-gloss HDPE container for lotions and cremes, has been developed by W. Braun (Chicago, IL). The container is 115 mL (3.88 oz) with a 22/400 finish.

February 28, 1998

Closures

Lotion pump

The SAR SGS high-output lotion pump from SeaquistPerfect Dispensing (Cary, IL) is now available. The actuator locks in the upright position, thereby eliminating the possibility of product waste associated with down-locking pumps.

February 28, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Woodland Poly casts for western film business

Cast and blown film-making equipment, using metallocene resins, enable Woodland Poly to produce rugged stretch-wrap film in thin gauges for its customers in the west.

February 28, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: Indexing servo drives

Rockwell Automation/Electro-Craft (Eden Prairie, MN) has added indexing functionality to its BRU-Series Advantage Line family of digital servo drives.

January 31, 1998