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Converting equipment

Best of Brand Design honored

Sponsored by the newly renamed Brand Design Assn., the 1998 Gold Awards competition honored outstanding package design from around the world.

July 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Lakeport likes can filling flexibility

This Ontario brewer designed a can filling line that accepts sizes from 8 to 32 oz. Secondary packaging can be corrugated trays, paperboard or plastic ring carriers.

July 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Looking for a packaging edge? Explore technology's promises

If you're looking for an edge--and who isn't?--there's a wealth of emerging technology available today that can help: (1) improve the quality of your product; (2) heighten your packaging line productivity; (3) reduce your packaging costs; and (4) improve your product sales/profitability.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Cookson Plastic Molding Corp.: Plastic pallet

Cookson Plastic Molding (Philadelphia, PA) introduces The Boss(TM), a 40" x 48" rackable HDPE pallet. Structural foam molded and weighing about 57 lb, the pallet has an edge rack load capacity of 2꼀 lb and a dynamic load capacity of 5ꯠ lb.

July 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Packagers predict future trends

Consolidation/globalization, the shift to flexibles and system speed/automation top a list of emerging trends cited by packagers, according to new PMMI research.

July 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Windmoeller & Hoelscher: Multiwall liner inserter

A new PE liner bag inserting system from Windmoeller & Hoelscher (Lincoln, RI) is intended for use where paper sacks require plastic liners with good seal-strength characteristics.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Belt conveyor

Alvey Systems' (St. Louis, MO) rollerless conveyor for beverage applications uses a unique plastic belt capable of transporting trays of PET bottles up or down steep in-clines and declines without product slippage.

July 31, 1998

Flow wrapping

Flexo savings are in the bag

Bake-Line Products lowers print and package development costs while shortening lead times by switching from gravure-printed pre-made bags to flexo-printed rollstock.

July 31, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

All-Fill Inc: All-Fill Inc: Auger filler

All-Fill's (Exton, PA) Servomotor Direct Drive Multi-Fill filling system provides fast, accurate multi-positioned dispensing of powders and viscous products.

July 31, 1998

Cartoning

Adhesives help Chelsea Milling stick to quality

Two hot melts and one cold-glue adhesive are instrumental in allowing this Michigan miller to package more than a million cartons every day. Bundling and tray packing have been upgraded, too, and ink-jet printing of corrugated shippers is a big improvement.

July 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Henney to head FDA

Dr. Jane E. Henney, vice president for health sciences at the University of New Mexico, has been nominated as the new commissioner of the FDA, succeeding her former boss Dr.

July 31, 1998

Flow wrapping

Neckhanger displays gum sample pack

Clearly Canadian and Warner-Lambert have teamed up in a joint sampling program to promote gum and sparkling water. Throughout the summer, three million 1-L polyethylene terephthalate bottles of Clearly Canadian's wild cherry-flavored sparkling water will have their necks adorned with a five-stick sample pack of cherry Trident gum from Morris Plains, NJ-based Warner-Lambert.

July 31, 1998