Converting equipment

Materials Purchasing: Grocer buys into online shopping

Grocery retailer H.E. Butt Co. procures packaging materials through the INC2inc Internet marketplace. Now it’s persuading its vendors to climb aboard.

August 31, 2000

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Conveying & accumulation

Notable web sites

Materials MarketplacesB2BPKG.com (www.b2bpkg.com) is a packaging materials marketplace that allows users to constuct a private catalog of vendors for online procurement.

August 31, 2000

Cosmetics/Personal care

Capital Machinery E-sales on Hold

Though business-to-business electronic exchanges may one day make a dent in the packaging marketplace, very little is happening now in the way of point, click and buying of capital equipment online.

August 31, 2000

Dairy

Letters to the editor

Survey on targetI concur with your buying survey responses (www.netsourcingmag.com/articles/04.00/survey.htm)—the majority of people, even Web-savvy packaging professionals, are primarily using the Net to purchase office supplies or basic, stock commodity packaging components with previously qualified vendors—not specified packaging materials—as other surveys have suggested.

August 31, 2000

Bakery/Snack

The Myth of the Single Portal

Some online marketplaces would have you believe that at the end of the day, there will be only one Web site that buyers use for Internet packaging procurement.

August 31, 2000

Closures

A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles (sidebar)

Meanwhile, at Miller Brewing

August 31, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles

Michigan Brewing sees great potential for beer in plastic when the target market is tightly focused. Custom-labeled bottles for a casino, for instance, have found a receptive audience.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

'No-label' look reflects purity of product

Global Balance Co. switches from a glass jar to an HDPE tube for consumer benefits, vastly improving product sales.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Battle brewing over child-resistant caps

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering mandating child-resistant closures for cosmetics, cleaning solvents and auto products, among others.

August 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister pack is clearly 'key' to adapter visibility

New thermoformed clear vinyl package improves shelf presence, while it lowers costs for Keyspan adapters.

August 31, 2000

Cartoning

Food marketers focus on schools

New packaging equipment is helping two California food processors grow their school foodservice businesses.

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines

Labatt Breweries upgrades bottling line conveyors with compact drives that smooth production, enhance network communications and simplify troubleshooting.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

PPG paints precise picture of production (sidebar)

PI: Benchmarking a World Class line

August 31, 2000