Sustainability

Bisphenol-A safety ignites controversy

Used for years for reusable polycarbonate baby bottles and water bottles, as well as in can liners, Bisphenol-A is under increasing fire on several fronts.

August 5, 2008

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Secondary Packaging

Wine lines enhanced with robotic palletizers

After the successful 2006 implementation of an automated material-handling system in its Daimiel plant in Castilla La Mancha, Spain, fruit-juice producer J. García Carrión made the strategic decision to enhance and expand its plant automation with an end-of-line solution.

August 5, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Robotic palletizer brings in the dough

With installation of an automated palletizing solution on its second production line, preformed pizza dough crust maker, or “base” maker, Charnwood Foods, Leicester, U.K., is palletizing up to 320 cases/hr around the clock.

August 5, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

Robots' presence felt throughout packaging

Real-world applications of packaging automation in food, beverage, and other retail-product plants support the conclusions gleaned from a new study on robotics in packaging.

August 5, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Smaller, lighter machinery drives

ABB’s ACS350 general machinery drives are designed and built to enable volume machine builders to increase average throughput time via an average 2-sec programming time per unit.

August 4, 2008

Flexible packaging

Pouch particulars

Converted pouches are provided to IPN USA with three sides sealed and are constructed of multilayer structure of 48-ga PET/60-ga nylon/30-ga aluminum/100-ga polyethylene.

August 4, 2008

Flexibles

Pouch system blazes new beverage trail

A unique flexible-pouch package is an essential component of the new Esio hot/cold drink system for home or office. To supply final, filled product, the package provider adds complete co-packing capabilities.

August 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Soup maker 'soups up' printing/coding efficiencies

Kettle Cuisine standardizes on one coding supplier for foodservice pouches, retail cup labels, and corrugated shipping cases.

August 4, 2008

Cartoning

Automation shines at Heinz

Smart Ones frozen meals are whisked through a highly automated packaging line at Heinz’s Pocatello, ID, facility. Cartoning and vision inspection stand out.

August 4, 2008

Sustainability

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

August 4, 2008

Recycling

Pacific seafood's new sustainable shipping cases

The days are growing longer, the sun feels warmer, and that means one thing: summer is here!

August 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging and food safety

On a regular basis, foodborne illness outbreaks are reported in the news.

August 4, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

How can they get away with that? (Well, maybe they can't.)

For all those who have ever looked at Internet ads or emails or late-night infomercials for dietary supplement and food products claiming all sorts of medical miracles and wondered, ‘How can they get away with that?’ the answer appears that at least some of them cannot.

August 4, 2008