Filling/capping, dry

Industrial bin

As an alternative to corrugated and collapsible boxes, Remcon Plastics (Reading, PA) presents its NL 48 bins for general industrial material handling needs.

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Tamper-evident machinery

Bayer adds TE to wide-mouth cap

A wide-mouth TE cap offers extra safety for Bayer's agricultural insecticide. Neck rings in the mold make it easier to change the container finish for the cap.

May 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Future shock (sidebar)

Blue-sky packaging ideas

May 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Pouched beverages pour into global markets (sidebar)

While it contains no liquid, Quaker Oats' new "dual pack" for its 100% Natural Granola is bound to make waves in the cold cereal category.

May 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Future shock

Leading packagers chart a course into the 21st century of packaging technology.

May 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Craft brewer launches bottles for retail

Toronto specialty on-premise brewer parlays recent developments in filling, capping and labeling machines to install a bottling line in its very own basement.

May 31, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Eat-in tray for single-serve cereal

Spotted by PW editors at the recent Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago was a 1.7-oz microwavable single-serve paperboard tray with integral lid for hot cereal from Nature's Path Foods, Delta, British Columbia, Canada.

May 31, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Modular inspection system

New Resina Corp. (Brooklyn, NY) has developed a modular inspection system designed to handle a range of functions-from simple detection of missing cap liners to the full-scale, 100% inspection of capping.

April 30, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Bulk weigher/auger filler

AMS Filling Systems' (Malvern, PA) Model A-110-Lynx net weigher bulk-and-dribble auger filler fills powders and granular products as well as thin or viscous liquids, in weights from 1 oz to several hundred lb.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Cosmetics are big winners in packaging competition (sidebar)

Additional NACD award winners: Drug & Pharmaceutical category

April 30, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Cosmetics are big winners in packaging competition

Additional NACD award winners:Food category

April 30, 1998

Closures

Automated bagger

The Paxem(TM) is a new high-speed automated bagger from Colt Eng. Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) that allows flexibility in product and bag sizes at high production rates.

March 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Water bottling line completed by farmer (sidebar)

Making do

March 31, 1998