Sustainability

Effective packaging for club stores

New materials, new configurations, and new graphics are all available to companies who want to sell into club stores.

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Industries: Page 639

Beverage

Rating systems integrators (sidebar)

Obstacles to integration

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Contract Packaging

Rating systems integrators

Packagers will increasingly rely on outside vendors for packaging line integration, according to a new online survey.

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Controls & Machine Components

Plug-and-pack a reality (sidebar)

PackML explained

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Flexible packaging

High-speed poucher consolidates control

One control integrates logic, motion, operator interface, even temperature control, for a high-speed pouching machine.

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Protective/transport packaging

If at first you don't succeed...

Lamp manufacturer settles on protective packaging that significantly reduces breakage rates, as well as unnecessary costs.

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Flexibles

Seafood stands tall for Pathmark

Packaging for private-label frozen seafood responds to consumer need for convenience and appeal.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Congress 'irradiates' labeling requirement

Companies can now use ‘pasteurized’ term on labels of food products that have been treated with radiation to kill bacteria.

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Conveying & accumulation

The "still water" filler

Blow-molder/labeller/filler bloc for handling non-returnable PET bottles.

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Consumer packaged goods

New barrier coating

The Plasmax plasma coating system is said to be the first machine to apply the Plasma Impulse Chemical Vapor Deposition process to PET bottles. Previously, the PICVD process, developed by Schott HiCotec, has been used for coating glass and certain plastics, but not PER bottles.

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Flexibles

Bone-in meat bags

The ArmorX™ line of bone-in packaging for meat products is said to provide superior shrink characteristics that result in tighter, more attractive packages.

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Flow wrapping

Horizontal flow wrapper

The Falcon horizontal flow wrapper is available in a single-pack pillow or product-on-edge version and has a product-wrapping capacity of speeds in excess of 150 ppm.

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Secondary Packaging

Freezer robot palletizer

Motoman SP-100F has internal wiring and heating elements that keeps frost and freezer burn away without the use of a protective robot jacket. Temperature tolerance is –30 deg C, making it ideal for frozen products such as food, ice cream, pizza, meat, poultry, and seafood.

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