Digital Transformation

3D printer taps out a beer carrier

Lightweight craft beer carrier is still strong enough to hold a six-pack.

November 30, 2016

Industries: Page 184

Flexibles

Premium tea and coffee in a portable, brew-in-the-bag pouch

Coffeebrewer Nordic engineers a stand-up pouch for its premium tea and coffee products. An integrated coffee/tea filter allows consumers to brew the products right in the bag for on-the-go convenience.

November 29, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A compact cartoner handles a wide range of beverage container sizes

The Quikflex 300 multipack cartoner from Graphic Packaging International is targeted for beer and beverage companies looking for a small-footprint, continuous motion solution. The highly adjustable machine features quick, tool-less changeovers for multipacks of two to 12 containers of heights from 3.5 inches to 11 inches.

November 29, 2016

Cosmetics/Personal care

Cologne bottle echoes art deco architecture

Van Cleef & Arpels’ new In New York cologne pays homage to art deco architecture, pulling influence from the New York streets and skyline.

November 22, 2016

Prepared Foods

Micvac adds food service business area

The patented Micvac process for in-pack cooking and pasteurization is now being used within the food service industry.

November 21, 2016

Recycling

Millennials and Sustainable Packaging Go Hand in Hand

The Foodservice Packaging Institute’s latest trends report finds common threads throughout the industry, such as the impact and correlation between Millennials and sustainable packaging.

November 21, 2016

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Cargill debuts easy-peel packaging for its ground-beef chubs

The new film for its Our Certified 1-lb ground-beef chubs will eliminate consumers’ contact with the meat during food preparation.

November 21, 2016

Flexibles

Meat shrink bags improve puncture-resistance with less material

The Nextrus shrink bag line by Coveris offers both clarity and performance for protein packaging, achieving high levels of vacuum tightness and seal integrity for protection throughout the supply chain.

November 17, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

A floor-level accumulator offers true first-in-first-out feeding

The new DYNAC 6300 multi-lane accumulator from Hartness is a patent-pending floor-level system with a unique racetrack profile, providing pressureless single-file accumulating that outputs bottles sequentially just like customary vertical machines.

November 17, 2016

Secondary Packaging

An integrated case/tray packer for craft beer cans

The 1210 Combo machine from WestRock combines a DuoDozen secondary packaging machine with a corrugated tray packer to handle 4-packs, 24-packs and virtually any configuration in between at 600 cans per minute.

November 17, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Basket carrier erector

From Wayne Automation Corp. comes the WBC Basket Carrier Erector, which is only 6 feet long and erects paperboard carriers in an upright position to simplify insertion into corrugated cases.

November 17, 2016

Cosmetics/Personal care

Berry Plastics discusses facility enhancements for healthcare packaging

Berry Plastics upgrades its Phillipsburg, N.J. facility to better accommodate the company’s healthcare packaging portfolio.

November 17, 2016

Filling/capping, dry

EatingWell brings VSP frozen entrées to the table

Using vacuum skin packaging, new EatingWell frozen entrées deliver preservative-free recipes and visual transparency to the fresh ingredients in the freezer section.

November 13, 2016