Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Inserter

Exact Packaging introduces its 3-dimensional inserter for toys, sauces, and other promotional pieces. Inserter uses a continuous bandolier format to handle 200 pieces/min.

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Secondary Packaging

How to sell a packaging machine to Unilever (or any other large CPG company)

How can a packaging machine builder sell to Unilever Home and Personal Care North America when the consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturer is making its short list of preferred suppliers even shorter?

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Beverage

Lack of information integration punishes packagers

Why does it take a CPG (consumer packaged goods) company an average of 27.5 months to launch a new product?

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Pleasant surprises from new liquid packaging servo

In initial applications of the first purpose-built liquid packaging servo motor/drive, packaging machine builder are discovering surprising new benefits.

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Beverage

Clear Choice Awards announced by Glass Packaging Institute

Beer: Anheuser World Select Lager Beer; Owens-Illinois Glass Containers, www.o-i.com.

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Labels

Golden Mummy winners

Kraft Macaroni and CheeseKraft Food and Cello FoilKraft Foods recently changed the packaging format for its 12 and 15-pack bundles by replacing a shrink film, to improve appearance and eliminate loading problems due to skewed bundles, with ExxonMobil Chemical’s Bicor® AB-X film.

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Secondary Packaging

High-speed robotic case packer

Delta-style robotic solution is suitable for high-speed packaging of frozen food products or flow-wrapped or shrink-wrapped products.

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Detergents/cleaners

Transfer print 'pops' prototype boxes

Private-label packager Huish Detergents, Salt Lake City, UT, is vertically integrated, operating its own printing presses and machinery to convert corrugated into detergent boxes that it fills.

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Flexibles

Flexible packaging and labeling winners

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Beverage

Glass that shines

A 750-mL bottle for Ciclon Tequila Spiked Rum from the Bacardi Rum Co. is the Overall Packaging Category winner in the Glass Packaging Institute’s 2003 Clear Choice Awards.

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Beverage

Worldwide Food Expo numbers

Sponsors of the Worldwide Food Expo 2003 reported that the October 29 - November 1 event hosted 28ꯠ attendees from more than 100 countries. The biennial global show included more than 1겨 exhibitors in 1.2 million sq’ of space.

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Conveying & accumulation

Wireless ink-jet coding

A switch from hand-applied, preprinted labels on corrugated shippers to large-character ink-jet printing is reducing labor costs and improving security measures at the Great Northern Wholeaves operation of produce grower/marketer Mills Inc.

November 30, 2003

Flexibles

Twist-tie wrap is PLA

With the August launch of College Farm organic hard candies in East Coast markets, JoEl Inc. of Elizabethtown, NJ, is the first North American candy company to offer confectionery wrapped in NatureWorks™ polylactide (PLA) from Cargill Dow.

November 30, 2003