Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Cupping, bagging starts up at NP Food Service Sales - second line

The organic cereal processor launches into the market in cups and in bags using two new lines.

May 16, 2007

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Cupping, bagging starts up at NP Food Service Sales

The organic cereal processor launches into the market in cups and in bags using two new lines.

May 16, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Bottle drying system produces for Britvic

A bottling line started up in fall 2006 at Britvic Soft Drinks at Chelmsford, United Kingdom, to handle the company’s Robinsons Fruit Shoot beverages is anchored by a space-efficient block filler for 200- and 300-mL PET bottles.

April 3, 2007

Flexible packaging

Smooth operation

A modified liquid filler helps one commercial skincare products company clean up its act.

March 9, 2007

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Frozen treat package mimics energy drink can

Hershey’s Ice Cream, Harrisburg, PA, has co-branded with Hammond, IN-based Swanel Beverages Inc., the manufacturer of an energy drink called Banzai, to create Banzai Energy Ice. The 4 oz treat is packaged in a squeeze-up tube made of solid bleached sulfate from Solo Cup Co. (www.solocup.com). Hershey fills the tubes using a Flex E Fill Rotary Filler from Solo Cup Co. and heat seals them with a thin foil lid, also from Solo Cup.

March 8, 2007

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Industry Watch

COMPANIES Thermo Electron Corp. and Fisher Scientific Intl. Inc. have merged to form Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., creating a provider of products and services in the high-growth life, laboratory, and health sciences industry.

January 10, 2007

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Trends in aseptic and extended shelf life packaging

Download this study from Serac based on exclusive survey results of 550 end users discerns latest trends in ESL and aseptic filling systems

January 5, 2007

Flexible packaging

Nothing nutty about this bagging system

The need to pre-mix spices and sugar in small batches is an inconvenience that has been overcome since this purveyor of nuts implemented a dosing/bagging upgrade.

November 5, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Aseptic bag filling

Alphacos has introduced the Type 529 Semi-Automatic IV Bag Filling and Closing Machine for aseptic packaging of infusions, parenteral drugs, and other pharmaceutical and biotech fluids.

October 7, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

The future of packaging automation

On a recent visit to Chicago, Packaging Automation interviewed Dr. Thomas Cord, CEO of packaging machinery automation provider ELAU and previously the company's R&D manager. In a word, the future of packaging is: software.

September 11, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Contract packager fills PEN bottles with personal care products for Wal-Mart

At contract packager Lake Consumer Products, polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) bottles from Graham Packaging are conveyed single-file in pucks from left to right through a two-station volumetric filling process for feminine personal care products on Lake's line that relies almost exclusively on Terco equipment.

September 11, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Blue Ice Vodka Bottle Reaches New Heights

When Distilled Resources Inc., Rigby, ID, added 1-L and 1.75-L bottles to its Blue Ice Vodka line in June, the company wanted to maintain brand consistency and retail shelf height limits.

August 31, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Beverage makers speak at Packaging Automation Forum

In Part 3 of our PAF report, wine and brewing industry speakers speak out on how to implement automation to achieve business requirements.

May 31, 2006