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Secondary Packaging

New press gains prove more than cosmetic

A new sheet-fed press at All Packaging boosts the converter's efficiency, speed, uptime and print quality. Neoteric Cosmetics is the first to benefit, obtaining vibrant folding cartons for its retail cosmetics.

December 31, 1998

Flexibles

Dairy bottle blocks light?

In unveiling last month a bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate for 16-oz milk, Dallas-based Schepps Dairy was not the first to put fresh, refrigerated milk in PET (see Packaging World, November '97, p.

December 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Tropicana twists again

In April Tropicana Products of Bradenton, FL, will launch Tropicana Twister in a new 20-oz five-layer bottle made by Continental PET Technologies (Florence, KY).

December 31, 1998

Sustainability

Brewers pouring into plastic

Brewers around the world have been on the fence about plastic bottles. Suddenly they're commercializing a variety of plastic barrier structures.

November 30, 1998

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

H.B. Fuller (St. Paul, MN): Gerald K. McGinty, vp/global manager, packaging/converting business unit.

November 30, 1998

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

Controls & Machine Components

lpha gear drives, Inc: High-speed gear reducer

Alpha Gear Drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) has introduced its SP high-speed gear reducer. Designed specifically to improve continuous-duty servo motor performance for high-speed continuous applications such as packaging, converting and printing.

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

Flexibles

Supplier news: International agreements

Transilwrap of Canada, Ltd. (Toronto, Canada) has begun converting and distributing cellophane from UCB Films (Wigton, Cumbria, U.K.).

November 30, 1998

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Teamwork pays off for everyone

Wise and its film suppliers work together to develop a new metallized oriented polypropylene film that can handle the demands of potato chip packaging.

October 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Honey shows off in clear PET (sidebar)

Europe knows about honey in PET

October 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Welch's 'concentrates' on plastic can

Under development for nearly eight years, an all-plastic, easy-open, microwavable canister is now appearing in East Coast freezer cases holding several varieties of frozen juice concentrates for Welch's, Concord, MA.

October 31, 1998