Conveying & accumulation

Water bottling line completed by farmer

To bottle its spring water in volume, Wisconsin farmer uses creativity to complete an automated bottling line. Homemade feeders and some change parts help keep total costs low.

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Flexibles

Recycling on the web

There are now several sites cropping up on the web where packagers and package manufacturers alike can either source or recycle scrap packaging materials.

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Beverage

MSU to demonstrate CAD/CAM package design

After a major fundraising campaign, Michigan State University's School of Packaging dedicated its completely new computer-aided-design and manufacturing system Feb.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Donnybrook over spring brooks (sidebar)

Putting the squeeze on fresh fruit juice

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Flexible packaging

Tortilla packs always get a date

La Siesta Foods tested a new ink-jet coder designed for food processing plants. Better reliability, easy cleaning and operation, and improved portability cut downtime for tortilla bakery.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Catching the rays (sidebar)

Old MacDonald never had this kind of farm

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Meat/Poultry/Seafood

New machines and materials fuel prepackaged fresh beef (sidebar)

New measures for meat profits?

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Digital-on-demand printing opens new markets for converter

Two six-color digital offset presses drive Watson Label Products into the packaging market. Machines specialize in short-run production of flexibles used primarily for prototyping and promotional purposes.

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Beverage

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Intralox Inc. (Harahan, LA): Bob Gladczak, technical sales rep., brewery and beverage industries.

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Converting equipment

Is Bud ready for plastics?

Wondering what the world's biggest brewer thinks about plastic bottles for beer? Anheuser-Busch tipped its hand, ever so slightly, at a recent technical conference.

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Conveying & accumulation

Dual-panel labeling saves General Time

A dual-panel corner-wrap labeler saves $50ꯠ per year over hand labeling and eliminates cumbersome preprinted label inventory.

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Beverage

Is Bud ready for plastics? (sidebar)

FDA foils Olympics bid

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Contract packaging

Tapping into the power of the Eastern market

EastPack '98 returns to Philadelphia May 19 to 21, growing to over 125ꯠ sq' of packaging products and two specialty pavilions. IoPP's development conferences will also attract packaging professionals looking to learn.

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