Converting equipment: Page 95

Converting equipment

Supplier news: International agreements

Riverwood Intl. Corp. (Atlanta, GA) sold just under 50% interest in its Brazilian operation, Igaras Papeis e Embalagens S.A., for approximately $100 million to a subsidiary of Cia.

January 31, 1995

Flexibles

Pharmaceutical Makers Show Preference for Dedicated Suppliers

Pace Foods, the San Antonio-based salsa producer, has gotten a lot of mileage out of a series of television commercials emphasizing its Tex-Mex heritage and deriding the competition's product for being made "in New York City?!!" In the same vein, Chi-Chi's, Inc., the Mexican restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville, KY, has an amusing TV commercial for its retail-packed salsa in which the ceo of some unnamed competitor asks his managers whether the company should make salsa or oven mitts.

December 31, 1994

Conveying & accumulation

Empty-bottle handling is no picnic

The lightest of the PET bottles filled on Pepsi's new line weighs just 27.5 g. Controlling these empty containers at high speeds is difficult to say the least.

December 31, 1994

Labels

Coppertone's new label is a clear winner

Schering-Plough decided to bring in-house new p-s labeling of its suncare products. Along with special labels, the company needed labeling equipment-and also machine vision and ink-jet printing.

December 31, 1994

Flexibles

Supplier news: International agreements

The Food and Consumer Packaging Business of James River Corp. (Milford, OH) has established a flexible packaging converting plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, under the name James River Packaging de Mexico.

December 31, 1994

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Weyerhaeuser Co. (North Bend, OR) is converting its containerboard factory to run exclusively on waste paper and will close an adjoining pulp mill.

December 31, 1994

Converting equipment

Supplier news: International agreements

Riverwood Intl. Corp. (Atlanta, GA) is planning a new carton converting plant in Mexico.

December 31, 1994

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Engraph Label Group's Patton Div. (Cold Spring, KY) has announced the opening of its VIP Health Care pharmaceutical label converting plant; Polaris Packaging Inc.

December 31, 1994

Flexibles

PP bottles, PET film boast PCR content

Colgate-Palmolive's Murphy's oil soap has been in translucent blow-molded polypropylene bottles for years, and the New York-based firm had no desire to switch.

December 31, 1994

Converting equipment

New resin

The Soft Touch package from Kranson Industries (St. Louis, MO) contains Catalloy process resins for a texture described as being a cross between a bar of soap and rubber.

November 30, 1994

Conveying & accumulation

Is bar-coding a valuable customer service?

When customers asked for bar codes to help control inventory,Sherwin-Williams got the message. It implemented a custom print/apply bar code labeling system.

November 30, 1994

Flexibles

LLDPE-type resin

Quantum (Cincinnati, OH) has formulated a new LLDPE-type tie-layer resin that has good adhesion to EVOH, nylons, ionomers, PE and ethylene copolymers in coextrusion applications.

November 30, 1994