Converting equipment

Rarity unveiled in PET whisky bottle

Hiram Walker & Sons continues glass-to-PET switch.

May 31, 2002

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Closures

2002 NACD Packaging Awards

Packaging World highlights the Gold Award winners of the National Assn. of Container Distributors 2002 Awards.

May 31, 2002

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Diamond of California: Scale systems for shelled nuts

Computerized scales from Hayssen deliver accurate amounts of nuts on this 16-head system that includes an upper scale with a booster hopper directly beneath. Nuts released from the scales fall through stainless-steel tubes into vf/f/s equipment.

April 30, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Diamond of California: Side-by-side form/fill/seal machines for nuts

Filled and sealed bags of nuts discharge from two side-by-side vf/f/s machines onto a conveyor that runs perpendicular to them. Bags are then conveyed downstream. Meanwhile, printed film is pulled through tensioning rollers on one of the vf/f/s machines (right).

April 30, 2002

Secondary Packaging

Diamond of California: Automated case erector for bagged nuts

A key improvement to downstream packaging functions at Diamond of California is this automatic case erector. Erected cases are packed manually before tape is applied to top flaps (right) to seal them shut. An ink-jet system then prints best-before date, Julian date code, and line and shift codes.

April 30, 2002

Flexibles

Aseptic carton moves organic milks

“Organic” milk—produced without the use of pesticides, synthetic hormones, or antibiotics—has been around for a while. But Horizon Organic of Boulder, CO, claims it’s the first to launch an organic flavored milk in a single-serve format: the Tetra Prisma aseptic carton from Tetra Pak (Vernon Hills, IL).

April 30, 2002

Closures

Shapely bottle pours into yogurt

For its new line of 10-oz drinkable yogurt, Stonyfield Farm is using a contoured high-density polyethylene bottle decorated with a full-body shrink-sleeve label.

April 30, 2002

Closures

Alfresh extends into PET

Toronto, Canada-based Alfresh Beverages Canada in January began selling its 473-mL (16-oz) fruit juices in PET bottles, rather than glass, under the Everfresh brand name in Canada and Fairlee in the United States.

April 30, 2002

Beverage

PMMI activities

The 2002 - 2003 Packaging Machinery Directory is available from the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute. The 25th edition lists detailed company and product details for 433 association member companies.

April 30, 2002

Containers

New bottle line brewing at Molson

In February, Molson announced plans to invest $34.8 million in upgrades at its Toronto brewery as the first installment in a $100 million plan to increase the facility’s production and efficiency.

April 30, 2002

Beverage

Holography delivers 'pizzaz'

When Chicago-based Barton Brands elected to add three flavored vodkas to its Fleischmann’s vodka line, management felt special labeling was in order.

April 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

U of OPP graduates 8,000th student

Juan Carlos Molotia, from Barcel Mexico, S.A. de C.V., recently became the 8ꯠth student to graduate from the University of Oriented Polypropylene, a flexible packaging and labeling education program hosted by the Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical.

April 30, 2002

Beverage

Cal Poly's new lab

San Luis Obispo, CA-based Cal Poly recently dedicated a laboratory that will serve the research, testing, and product evaluation needs of the printing, packaging, imaging, and supply sectors of the graphics arts industry.

April 30, 2002