Flexible packaging

Four-side-sealer homers for Clean Team

Clean Team, a San Diego maker of cleaning card products, speeds changeovers and lowers labor costs with an automated sealer. Pitched area allows for easy filling of liquid cleaning solution into the package.

September 30, 2001

Converting equipment: Page 53

Conveying & accumulation

Big containers, big output done Nature's Way

Nature’s Way Purewater fills 180 1-gal containers/min and packs them into 3-count cases at a rate of 60 cases/min. New $4 million, 2000’-long line includes a case packer that accepts 2.5-gal containers, too. See in-plant video

September 30, 2001

Labels

Contoured bottle fits Hansen's entrance into single-serve water

Hansen Beverage Co. entered the single-serve flavored water market in July with its Energy Water line sold in a 24-oz hot-filled polyethylene terephthalate bottle from Schmalbach-Lubeca (Manchester, MI).

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

European flexible packaging

A majority of flexible packaging converters in Western Europe are struggling financially, due to a combination of upward price pressures from suppliers and cost-cutting pressure from end-use customers.

August 31, 2001

Protective/transport packaging

Rising demand for foamed plastics, plastics equipment

According to the Freedonia Group’s “Foamed Plastics” study ($3꺜), the demand for foamed plastics in the United States is predicted to rise nearly 3% per year to 7.8 billion lb in 2005.

August 31, 2001

Converting equipment

PEF announces four inductees

Four career packaging professionals will be inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame by the Packaging Education Forum during its annual Leadership Awards ceremonies Monday, September 10, at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. The event will occur during Pack Expo Las Vegas, Sept. 10-12 at the Sands Exposition & Convention Center.

August 31, 2001

Converting equipment

Relocations, expansions

Tetra Pak (Lund, Sweden) will sell its plastics activities in PET preform and stretch blow molding machines as part of the company’s revision of its plastics business strategy.

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

Flexibles to stretch beyond $19 billion in sales (sidebar)

Mixed bag for converters

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

'Yes' to Internet sales; 'Maybe' to Distributors (sidebar)

Comments reveal confusion about proliferation, distributors

July 31, 2001

Contract Packaging

Mixed forecast for equipment purchases

Pharmaceutical, paper, and food segments will likely increase packaging machinery spending this year. But overall, a PMMI survey says U.S. domestic equipment sales will equal last year’s $4.9 billion.

July 31, 2001

Converting equipment

Relocations, expansions

Mitsubishi Polyester Film (Greer, SC) broke ground for a new film production facility in Greer, SC, on April 18, 2001. —EaglePack Corp.

July 31, 2001

Converting equipment

The CP moves my cheese

A couple of months ago, I prepared a packaging trends report for the conference program that accompanied the Converting Machinery/Materials Intl. show.

July 31, 2001

Converting equipment

A late Father's Day tribute

This is being written in the weeks before Father’s Day—another Hallmark (profit) moment. Although I’m anything but fond of these “created” holidays, this year’s event coincides with one of the more interesting interviews I’ve conducted recently.

June 30, 2001