Conveying & accumulation

Web Plus: Online auction gathers equipment buyers

More than 70 online bidders spent last Halloween bidding for “treats” that included used and new automated bagging equipment, printers, and conveyors.

January 31, 2002

Industries: Page 684

Consumer packaged goods

Industry watch: People

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI): Romeo Kreinberg, president, polyolefin and elastomers business group. —Wago (Germantown, WI): Bill Lydon, product mgr., electronic products.

January 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Rules & Regs: EU proposed mandatory allergen labeling

The European Commission has proposed to amend its food labeling rules to require mandatory labeling of allergens including cereals containing gluten and products based on cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, and products based on crustaceans, egg and egg products, fish and fish products, peanuts and peanut-based products, soya and soya-based products, milk and milk products (including lactose), tree nuts and nut products, sesame seeds and sesame seed products, and sulphite in concentrations of more than 10 mg/kg.

January 31, 2002

Cosmetics/Personal care

Rules & Regs: More CR packaging ordered

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is requiring child-resistant packaging for cosmetics and household products that contain 10% or more hydrocarbons and have a thin, oily consistency (see PW, Jan ’02, p.

January 31, 2002

Tamper-evident machinery

PipeLine: Is it really complacency?

Among some responses I received to the November column on packaging’s role in thwarting terrorism, one was from Robert Heilman, a packaging industry veteran who is now an independent inventor.

January 31, 2002

Flexibles

Insecticide debuts in 'killer' packaging

GardenTech launches 10-lb stand-up bags of Over ‘n Out in a three-piece display-ready case with a stand-out four-color design.

January 31, 2002

Containers

'Scaling up' on vaccine filling

Now the world’s fourth largest supplier of poultry vaccines, Lohmann Animal Health maintains its ranking through capital investment. See in-plant video

January 31, 2002

Fruits/Vegetables

Instant changeover with Del Monte's labeling duo

A pair of interconnected applicators yields automatic label roll changes using labels printed offline just-in-time. See in-plant video

January 31, 2002

Consumer packaged goods

Coder grows on lawn-and-garden bagmaker

Exopack’s Tomah, WI, plant adds a thermal-transfer coder to print production dates of lawn-and-garden bags sold to customers such as The Scotts Company.

January 31, 2002

Containers

Are packaging jobs secure?

How will packaging jobs hold up to recession, consolidation from mergers and acquisitions, and the war against terrorism? Packagers respond via an exclusive Packworld.com survey.

January 31, 2002

Containers

New friction-top belt conveys success

A new friction-top belt conveyor replaces a belt-on-roller incline conveyor at Miller Brewing’s Irwindale, CA, facility. Less maintenance, no case slippage are the results.

January 31, 2002

Confection/Candy

Frövi Bright is sweet

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Quality and taint & odour values were cited by Nestlé España as reasons for choosing Frövi Bright board for its Caja Roja chocolate box. Click logo for full article.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Global Beverage Systems: Empty bottle handling on bottled water line

On this new bottled water filling line, bulk bottles are depalletized by a Sig Simonazzi high-level depalletizer and then single-filed for delivery to the air conveying system from Descon Conveyor Systems and Consultants.

December 31, 2001