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Controls & Machine Components

OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup teams with ISA Food & Pharma Division at Process Control Conference

For the first time, the Instrument Society of America will host an OMAC Plug-and-Pack Workgroup conference track at this year’s ISA Process Control Conference in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, June 5-6, 2003.

April 30, 2003

Flexibles

Reese's rolls out new look

In March, Hershey Foods reintroduced its Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Reese’s Pieces candies in its first new trade dress in more than 30 years.

April 30, 2003

Prepared Foods

Robot catalog

Automated Product Systems (New Freedom, PA) published a new 16-page catalog of APS Robotic Automation Systems. Systems can accommodate a range of applications in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, frozen product, industrial, and container manufacturing industries.

April 30, 2003

Flexibles

What packagers think about the environment

Respondents to a recent survey on Packworld.com were asked to describe the current attitude at their company with regard to packaging and the environment.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

The best thing...since packaged bread

If you look at recent developments in packaging machinery automation, a lot has changed for the better. And it’s primarily been thanks to software advances.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Latvian sauces get new tops

Spilva, Riga, Latvia, has increased sales of its popular sauces and salad dressings since it switched to distinctive bright red 38-mm medium-twist-button steel closures from Closures Europe, a Paris subsidiary of Crown Holdings, parent of Crown Cork & Seal (Philadelphia, PA).

March 31, 2003

Containers

M&M Industries receives award

M&M Industries (Chattanooga, TN) received an Excellent Supplier Award from PPG Industries for 2002. M&M, which supplies child-resistant PE pails to PPG chloralkali and derivatives operations in the United States, is among 7 companies being honored by the manufacturer of coatings, fiber glass, glass, and chemicals.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Automated Packaging to help homeland security effort

Automated Packaging was chosen by the CDC to provide packaging technologies vital to the rapid deployment initiatives of the CDC's homeland security effort.

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Automatic case openers and sealers

SWF Companies (Reedley, CA) offers the OS Series fully automatic HSC/RSC case openers and sealers that are easily integrated with a wide variety of case loading systems to form fully automatic case packers.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Single-handed convenience

One-handed dispensing of coffee creamer is coming to dairy cases across the country as Morningstar Foods, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Dean Foods Co., begins shipping its International Delight brand in PET containers with a custom dispensing closure.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Skippy squeezes into new packs

Unilever Bestfoods’ well-known Skippy brand could redefine the peanut butter category with two stunning new flexible packages.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Unlocking plant-floor packaging data at Unilever

Accurate, timely information on which to make business decisions is already on the packaging floor, according to Unilever’s Andrew McDonald (left), global automation and control manager.

March 31, 2003