Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Information sheet

Available from Automated Feeding & Alignment Systems (Batavia, IL) is an information sheet on its asymmetrical package orienter. The flow of a package from a "beginning pattern" to a "final component pattern" is illustrated along with a list of benefits, features and typical uses of the machine, such as batteries and squeeze tubes on hanging cards.

February 28, 1998

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Controls & Machine Components

Folding cartons

Paperboard packaging for fast-to-market luxury consumer goods is available from kramp USA (E. Brunswick, NJ). The folding cartons are custom-made, including size, printing and graphics for applications such as perfumes, cosmetics, jewelry, confectionery and liquor products.

February 28, 1998

Converting equipment

Olin takes air out of pool chemicals display

A new line of interlocking modular square containers was designed to meet retailers' needs. Design features, some patented, make containers consumer-friendly as well.

February 28, 1998

Flexible packaging

Mariani's sales go nuts following graphic redesign

Richer, more vibrant colors, traditional logo and product viewing window trigger strong sales gains for Mariani, a California nut grower and processor.

February 28, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

AET Films: Product manual

A 132-page manual from AET Films (New Castle, DE) describes the company's OPP film products. The book is divided into ten sections covering four film types: transparent, metallized, white opaque and label.

February 28, 1998

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Bags stretch advantages for packagers and end users

Among FPA's winning packages sold at retail are a flat-bottom flexible bag made on first-of-its-kind vf/f/s machinery, a club-store bag incorporating a transverse zipper for reclosability, and a patented shaker bag that handily dispenses ice melt.

February 28, 1998

Flexible packaging

Heinz Pet Products stands up to the competition (sidebar)

Heinz weighs benefits of scale systems

February 28, 1998

Labels

A wide-mouth first in PET

Shatter-resistant and lighter than glass, narrow-neck polyethylene terephthalate bottles for hot-filled beverages have enjoyed steady growth lately. But only now is a wide-mouth PET jar for hot-filled food being commercialized as Tree Top Inc.

February 28, 1998

Labels

FSIS considers labeling reviews without industry representation

A food labeling trade group has expressed concern that industry representatives may be barred in the future from face-to-face meetings with federal regulators that review new labels for meat and poultry products.

February 28, 1998

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Widemouth cups will expand beverage packaging options

We've been looking at the newest generation of Ensure® nutritional supplement packaging and thinking that thermoformed or injection-molded cupsin some advanced stage of developmentcould be beer and carbonated beverage containers (CSDs) in the future.

February 28, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Woodland Poly casts for western film business

Cast and blown film-making equipment, using metallocene resins, enable Woodland Poly to produce rugged stretch-wrap film in thin gauges for its customers in the west.

February 28, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Foodservice bag displays retail points

Basic American Foods launches a first-of-its-kind bag for dehydrated potatoes sold to foodservice markets. Pointillistic graphics attract customers while the bag reduces secondary packaging.

February 28, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling uniformity

The Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) is crafting a message it plans to take to Capitol Hill renewing its call for uniform national food labeling standards.

February 28, 1998