Sustainability

Roller coaster ride for recycled plastics, paper markets

As the buying habits of Procter & Gamble, Lever Brothers, Clorox and People's Republic of China go, so goes the U.S. market for recycled packaging materials. Recycling capacity and changes in feedstock play major roles, too.

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Flexibles

Great Neck stretches for 'virtual packaging'

Hand tool manufacturer Great Neck Saw provides customers with digital color prints that vividly depict a package's on-the-shelf appearance-before the pack is created.

August 31, 1995

Conveying & accumulation

Pella's 'bookshelf' loads reduce materials and damage

To reduce materials and improve product protection, window-maker Pella moved to transparent stretch-wrapped packs that dramatically cut costs.

August 31, 1995

Beverage

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

3M Specialty Chemicals Div. (St. Paul, MN): Jim Fowler, vp of mktg. at American Pop Corn Co., is the winner of the 1995 Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the 3M Scotchban Challenge contest.

August 31, 1995

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Quantum Chemical (Cincinnati, OH): Michael D. Recknor, plant mgr. for the Crockett, TX, compounding plant; Dr. Norma J. Maraschin, dir., PE research and development.

August 31, 1995

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Fru-Con Eng. Inc. (Ballwin, MO): Armand A. Zeddies, mgr. of the Chemical Process and Pharmaceutical Div.

August 31, 1995

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Consumer group seeks food label changes

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group, is asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make changes in its food labeling regulations and to prohibit dozens of specific claims that are now appearing on food packages.

August 31, 1995

Consumer packaged goods

Japan looks at 'shared responsibility'

In June, Japan's parliamentary body, the Diet, passed legislation whereby product manufacturers, importers and retailers will share the "responsibility" for container recycling beginning in 1997, according to Raymond Communications' Recycling Laws International.

August 31, 1995

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: International agreements

Datacolor Intl. (Lawrenceville, NJ) an-nounced a new agent, Westglen Industries, Inc. (Milton, Ontario, Canada), to handle sales of quality control products in the paint, coatings, ink, and printing industries in Canada.

August 31, 1995

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Quantum Chemical Co. (Cincinnati, OH) finalized its plans to increase its HDPE and LLDPE capacities.

August 31, 1995

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Freshness down to a system

Freshness is essential to the products marketed by Nature's Herbs. So this American Fork, UT, manufacturer of herbal dietary supplements uses a variety of components in a system it calls FreshCare® to guarantee product freshness and potency.

August 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Canmaker/trimmer

Rated at 450 can/min speeds, CarnaudMetalbox Engineering's (Norwalk, CT) 5500 combination can bodymaker/trimmer enables canmakers to operate at high speeds and improve downstream handling with cleaner trims.

July 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

PEN container brochure

Amoco Chemical's (Chicago, IL) new brochure compares polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) to PET. It contains fabrication information on PEN containers and describes suggested fabrication conditions for injection molding preforms.

July 31, 1995