Conveying & accumulation

Back to Vegas for more gear

A Mexican manufacturer of cleaning products and a Utah marketer of bottled water both will return to Pack Expo Las Vegas this October.

July 31, 2003

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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

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

Flexibles

Birds Eye Foods' art management pays dividends

This summer, Rochester, NY-based Birds Eye Foods launched several new sauced frozen vegetables (shown) in flexible bags with prepress work executed through an agreement with Vertis, an integrated marketing and advertising solutions firm.

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

Sustainable Packaging

Molded pulp seminar rescheduled

The Mequon, WI-based International Molded Pulp Environmental Packaging Assn. announced that it has rescheduled its 7th International Molded Pulp Seminar to Feb. 14 – 16, 2004, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Orlando, FL.

June 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Simco: Product catalog

Simco Industrial Static Control releases its 2003 full-color catalog, featuring a complete line of static control, web, and sheet cleaning and electrostatic charging products.

June 30, 2003

Flexibles

ALTERNATIVE POUCH WAVE?

Stick packs, four-corner seal, flat-bottom, and other emerging and pre-commercial pouches were identified as the “next wave in flexibles” according to a multi-client study authored by Allied Development Corp.

June 30, 2003

Sustainability

MSU, Clemson offer seminars

Michigan State University and Clemson University announce packaging seminars scheduled for this autumn...

June 30, 2003