Household/Automotive

Special round bottle

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Beverage

Hot-fill beverage bottles

The General Line Packaging Group, a div. of O.Berk, has introduced hot-fill beverage bottles in PET.

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Flexibles

Films with high COF

Pliant has introduced a family of films with unique properties designed to improve converting and packaging processes.

March 4, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Vertical cartoners

ESS Technologies, U.S. distributor of Bergami packaging machinery, offers Bergami’s ASV automatic vertical cartoners as part of a complete packaging line.

March 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Two-handed machine actuation

Banner has introduced the Duo-Touch® Run Bar with STB buttons for 2-handed-control machine actuation.

March 4, 2008

Sustainability

Wonder Tablitz blitzes NACD awards

Spray bottle with integral cavity wins year's top honor from the National Association of Container Distributors.

March 4, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

OEE workshop message: just get started!

The first Packaging Line Performance workshop, co-sponsored by ELAU, Schneider Electric and Hartness International, and led by Paul Zepf, the respected OEE expert, yielded hands-on, practical lessons.

March 4, 2008

Consumer packaged goods

Stable servo feedback loops

To ensure stable servo feedback loops for fast commissioning, ELAU’s AutoTune tool automatically defines the correct control parameters after only a few entries.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Carpet cleaner tablet packaging helps clean up environment

The packaging concept for Capture Drop’n Go Deep Cleaning Carpet Tablets, jointly developed by Milliken Chemical, a div. of Milliken & Co., Spartanburg, SC, and North State Flexibles, LLC, has earned an FPA Gold Award in the Environmental and Sustainability Achievement category.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

Bourbon chicken graphics are intoxicating

A stand-up pouch provides an ideal billboard at retail to showcase tasty, inviting food photography and consistent, colorful brand imagery for Perdue’s Bourbon Chicken, a frozen, cooked chicken breast product.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

More consumer-convenient, eco-friendly rotisserie chicken packaging

The Hot N Handy (HNH) Rotisserie Pouch has garnered an FPA Gold Award in the Environmental and Sustainability Achievement category for Robbie Manufacturing, Inc..

March 4, 2008

Beverage

Stick-pack sparks tea-volution

Likened to a disposable tea infuser by its U.S. distributor The Sugart Group, of Manchester, NH, the Sugart iTea Wand micro-perforated stick-pack for loose tea won material supplier Alcan Packaging a Gold Award in Packaging Excellence.

March 4, 2008

Flexibles

'Full-panel' reseal realizes gold

Reseal options give companies more ways for providing consumers with added package convenience. One new technology, which adapts the entire front of a package into a recloseable panel, has been recognized with gold-level honors in packaging excellence by FPA judges.

March 4, 2008