Conveying & accumulation

Liquid packaging brochure

Horix Mfg. (McKees Rocks, PA) offers literature on its expanded line of packaging machinery in these full color brochures. Horix technology incorporates unscramblers, rinsers, fillers, cappers, labelers, packers, wrappers, storage silos, vibratory extractors, automatic elevators, and conveyor systems.

November 30, 1995

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Flexible packaging

Beverage containers dominate DuPont awards

A flexible beverage container and a hot-filled, shelf-stable juice pouch stand out at the ninth annual DuPont awards competition. Environmental categories and international entries again prove distinctive.

November 30, 1995

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Fresh milk flirts with 'value added' packaging

Extrusion blown of LDPE and topped with a unique closure injection molded of the same material, this new package could give milk a whole new single-serve image.

November 30, 1995

Conveying & accumulation

Single-stage is on stage at Coke plant

Coca-Cola Company's commitment to bringing consumers the packages they want has helped make this plant in Poland special. Integrated injection molding of PET preforms and stretch/blow molding of bottles was a first in the vast Coke empire.

November 30, 1995

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Canadian/American aseptic PET bottling line has European roots

by Ben Miyares, editorial director, Packaging Strategies

October 31, 1995

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Squeeze tube filler

ProSys (Middlesex, NJ) has released Models HVF RT112 and HVF RT212 tube filling machines. These fillers can run most tube materials and closure types to speeds of 70 tubes/min.

September 30, 1995

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Lamination solves a pair of problems

Forming web used for blister packs of reagent chemicals turned yellow with age and provided insufficient moisture barrier. New material addresses both issues.

September 30, 1995

Flexible packaging

Soup cups go private label (sidebar)

Better bagging, too

September 30, 1995

Flexible packaging

Soup cups go private label

An automated rotary cup feeder is a first on Ontario's sophisticated five-station filling line. The firm is targeting a whole new category in the private label business.

September 30, 1995

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Supplier news: Achievements

Advanced Monobloc (Hermitage, PA) received The Gillette Co.'s Omnimark Award for outstanding quality and service performance in 1994.

August 31, 1995

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

rommeLag USA (Fords, NJ) has formed a new company, Holopack Intl., to meet specialized contract packaging needs in the pharmaceutical liquid filling markets.

August 31, 1995

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Advanced Monobloc (Chappaqua, NY) announced the start up of the company's second high-speed line at its Hermitage, PA, facility.

August 31, 1995

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Liquid filling system

The GEN3 Pro/Fill fully automatic liquid filling system from Oden (Buffalo, NY) fills liquids in volumes from milliliters to gallons. Uses a PLC to store and execute the parameters of all filling and container-handling functions, as well as to maintain statistical operating data and provide extensive diagnostic information.

July 31, 1995