Flexible packaging

AIMCAL winners shine

Canada Bread and Celplast won Package of the Year in the annual competition of AIMCAL. But other packs were also honored.

April 30, 2004

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Quick-change starwheel

Morrison has introduced a dual-acceptance starwheel to its line of quick-container handling parts. Designed to provide more adaptable changeover components, the starwheel can receive center-neck containers with handles pointed in any direction, then smoothly transfer them to the next production line function.

March 31, 2004

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Outsourcing, the 'dirty' word of '04?

Just imagine how explosive the political debate over outsourcing would be if U.S. manufacturers didn’t enjoy easy access to such a well-developed and technically proficient network of domestic contract packaging companies?

March 31, 2004

Sustainability

Packagers emphasize environment and economics

Packaging professionals from Estée Lauder/Aveda, Hewlett-Packard, and Bacardi Bottling describe how their companies view packaging that is environmentally sustainable.

February 29, 2004

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Packaging excellence

"Striving for Packaging Excellence," an in-depth look at what’s coming down the pike in the packaging technology arena is produced by ARC Advisory Group.

January 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Poore: Snack line conveying to f/f/s

At Poore Brothers, three FastBack conveyors from Heat and Control carry snacks from three fryers to downstream vertical form/fill/seal machines.

December 31, 2003

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Poore: Weigh scales for salty snacks

Cross-feeder conveyors deliver snacks to Ishida 14-head weigh scales from Heat and Control. Individual load cells measure the weight of product in the scales. Integrated controls are used to select the right combination of buckets to release an accurate amount of product into a bottom-sealed tube of film.

December 31, 2003

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Platinum Packaging Inc.: Friction feeding for gift box blanks

Contract packager Platinum Packaging employs nearly 50 Longford friction feeders that deliver gift box blanks from a magazine onto a lugged conveyor for downstream shrink wrapping. Feeders can also be set up to deliver calendars to a plow so that another downstream feeder can insert a paperboard card into the calendar. Dong so helps provide rigidity to the calendar after it's shrink-wrapped.

December 31, 2003

Sustainability

Sustainable packaging coalition forms

In November, a group of two dozen packaging professionals from companies such as Coca-Cola, Estée Lauder/Aveda, Masterfoods, Nike, PepsiCo, Starbucks, and Unilever agreed to form the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.

December 31, 2003

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Companies

Sonoco (Hartsville, SC) completed a 10-year agreement with Pasco Beverage Co.

December 31, 2003

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Inserter

Exact Packaging introduces its 3-dimensional inserter for toys, sauces, and other promotional pieces. Inserter uses a continuous bandolier format to handle 200 pieces/min.

November 30, 2003

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Morrison enhances name, logo

Morrison Timing Screw is now Morrison Container Handling Solutions, thanks to a name changed effective Nov. 1.

November 30, 2003

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Classes of poultry revisions

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend the poultry class standards of identity to better reflect poultry sold in today’s market.

November 30, 2003