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Conveying & accumulation

Stonyfield Farm stacks benefits

Maintenance mechanic designs and builds an automatic case stacking machine that reduces labor costs and helps ready the company for new palletizing equipment.

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Controls & Machine Components

Infinity Packaging Systems: Positive displacement filling

A new line of servo motor-controlled in-line positive displacement filling machines is available from Infinity Packaging Systems (Bloomington, IN). The Servo-Fill(TM) systems provide high fill accuracy, low energy consumption, low noise level and low maintenance, says the company.

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Flexible packaging

Cloud connects to auto splicing

Chicagoland contract packager ups efficiency by adding an automated splicer onto a rollstock-driven, high-speed hf/f/s pouch machine.

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Filling/capping, dry

Material Transfer & Storage, Inc: Container dumper

The 180° Container Dumper from Material Transfer & Storage (Allegan, MI) is designed to dump powders or cereal-like foods from containers into hoppers or processing equipment.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Two-pronged attack in case-ready meats

Some supermarkets like vacuum skin-packing for case-ready meat, while others prefer modified-atmosphere master packs. Why not offer both, asks this Denver meat packer.

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Cartoning

Tasty Baking takes a bite of automation

Automated packaging lines have transformed the sixth floor at thelegendary Philadelphia bakery. Flowrappers, cartoners and case packers take center stage in the new lines.

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Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, TN): T.A. Smith, vp, gen. mgr., Container Plastics Business.

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Flexibles

New books profile converters, private-label manufacturers

Need to know more about packaging converters in North America or about the continued growth of store brands?

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Bakery/Snack

Pack Expo Las Vegas 99 and IEFP, (sidebar)

Outsourcing pavilion new at Pack Expo Las Vegas 99

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Controls & Machine Components

Discussing issues, breaking new ground

Editorials usually fall into one of two categories: Either they're "outside" and discuss the overall business and examine trends that may have an impact on your jobs; or they're "inside," and they explain how the magazine, especially a particular issue, has been created to help you.

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Secondary Packaging

Standardization suits Stonyfield Farm, (sidebar)

Stonyfield Farm blends environmental/economic goals

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Dairy

Supplier news: Achievements

Tetra Pak (Vernon Hills, IL) and educational software developer Edmark (Redmond, WA) have joined forces to sponsor "eCarton," a unique milk carton side-panel program that will provide elementary schools with educational software.

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