Conveying & accumulation

Equipment brews benefits for Anheuser-Busch

From depalletizing to shipping, nearly identical packaging equipment on two new lines boosts efficiency at the brewer's Houston, TX, plant.

November 30, 1998

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Bakery/Snack

Creative compensation keeps packaging people (sidebar)

Retention through tough times

November 30, 1998

Flexibles

Inks save dough for tortilla maker

Switching inks and interfering with a preset ink handling system caused headaches aplenty at this tortilla manufacturer. Now operations are back to normal.

November 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Equipment brews benefits for Anheuser-Busch (sidebar)

Putting the wraps on A-B's lines

November 30, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Creative compensation keeps packaging people

To attract good packaging people, companies must pay top wages without leaving behind existing packaging employees. Alternative compensation practices can also help.by David Newcorn, Senior Editor

November 30, 1998

Flow wrapping

Software helps Hershey slay downtime

Powerful software allows Hershey to automatically gather packaging efficiency data. Local and remote line control and monitoring are added bonuses.

November 30, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Silver cleaner polishes its look

Silver Blue's complete overhaul eliminates leakage and breakage while improving esthetics.

November 30, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA says Weider's health claims lack muscle

Agency blocks the first effort to use a new expedited approval process for health claims on package labels. Who will try next?

November 30, 1998

Bakery/Snack

Erler ponders what lies ahead

Fred Erler, chairman of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Assn. and vice president of Nordson Corp., delivered a November 11 Eye-Opener Breakfast Session at PMMI's Pack Expo 98 and told his audience that "three new realities" will predominate as we enter the 21st century: globalization, personalized packaging and flexibility.

November 30, 1998

Closures

Dairy debuts an ESL 'first'

Extended-shelf-life milk in gabletop cartons offering 60-day shelf life has been a proven pack- aging format for years. With the recent launch of its Moovers(TM) brand, Smith Dairy Products of Orrville, OH, wants to offer the same 60-day refrigerated shelf life for milk in bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate.

November 30, 1998

Flexibles

Supplier news: International agreements

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) has completed the purchase of Hoechst's (Greer, SC) equity interest in the two companies' seven-year-old joint venture to produce polyester films.

November 30, 1998

Recycling

Dean 'Chugs' along at Pack Expo 98

Overall attendance at November's Pack Expo reached 78괡, setting a new record. That figure is even more impressive considering that the number of international attendees reportedly declined by nearly 3%, presumably due in part to economic difficulties in Asia.

November 30, 1998

Beverage

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Schneider Packaging (Brewerton, NY) has completed a major expansion of its Brewerton, NY, facility, resulting in a total of 52ꯠ sq' of mfg.

November 30, 1998