Cosmetics/Personal care

Estée Lauder's learners

An ambitious IoPP training program at Estée Lauder will see some 40 package developers become Certified Packaging Professionals before the year is out.

July 31, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care: Page 90

Cosmetics/Personal care

Robot reaches jar line in Puerto Rico

Automated system saves labor costs at Alcan Packaging by conveying skin-care jars from four molding machines to a four-axis robot that deftly palletizes them.

July 31, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Nordenia hires Burke

Nordenia International has announced the appointment of William R. Burke as President and COO of Nordenia North America based in Jackson, MO.

July 31, 2003

Converting equipment

Business conditions improving in packaging

The business climate in packaging appears to be improving. So says new research from Trend Watch Graphic Arts, which conducted two surveys this year, one of consumer products companies (CPCs) and one of packaging printers and converters.

June 30, 2003

Cartoning

Small cartoner

Technik Packaging offers the Carton King cartoner for smaller products at rates to 60 cartons/min with a footprint as small as 40"x38".

June 30, 2003

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Liquid packaging breakthrough

First specialized filling, capping and labeling servo motor/drive enables unprecedented design flexibility for liquid packaging.

June 30, 2003

Closures

Super-sized design

To answer the consumer call for greater convenience at a better value, John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc., manufacturer of Fisher nuts and snack foods, has expanded from three peanut items in sizes from 16- to 40-oz PET containers, to a line of 18 stockkeeping units that includes nine flavors packed in a variety of sizes.

June 30, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Modernizing redesign

Alberto Culver redesigned the packaging for its St. Ives brand of lotion, changing out of the old opaque white bottles and into a sleeker bottle design.

June 30, 2003

Flexibles

Pouches stand up to retorting

Fall River wild rice in a microwavable, no-foil “glass barrier” stand-up pouch brings precooked, ready-to-eat convenience to consumers.

June 30, 2003

Converting equipment

Paper--with special converting--shows new versatility

The oldest packaging material is finding new opportunities by combining with other materials like barrier plastics and special inks.

June 30, 2003

Flexibles

Philips automates shaver head packaging

Norelco replacement shaver heads are packaged in Holland in a fold-over blister package on a two-part packaging line that’s almost completely automated.

June 30, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Nivea selects soft touch for shaving foam

Beiersdorf AG of Hamburg, Germany, has selected a special "soft-touch" feel for the actuator head of the dispenser of its Nivea shaving foam and gels.

May 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Q&A: Unilever pursues machine reliability

Recently, Packaging World had a chance to sit down with David Atherton, director of engineering for Unilever Home & Personal Care, North America. Atherton is responsible for packaging equipment engineering activities in the division’s eight North American factories. He is also the maintenance “champion” across these facilities.

May 31, 2003