Secondary Packaging

Carton sealing tape

Sekisui TA (Garden Grove, CA) has introduced STA 1160 Economy Carton Sealing Tape. The 1.6-mil tape comprises 0.9-mil BOPP and 0.7-mil water-based acrylic adhesive.

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Controls & Machine Components

Vinyl compound

Occidental Chemical (Dallas, TX) has developed a new chemical-resistant vinyl bottle compound for packaging aggressive chemical products, such as pine- or limonene-based cleaners.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Fin-seal wrapper

The Superflow® PC is a new electronic fin-seal wrapper from Ilapak (Newtown, PA) that uses an industrial PC for faster output, increased memory and greater capabilities over PLCs, says Ilapak.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Paperboard pads, partitions

QSmooth(TM) die-cut pads and partitions from Jefferson Smurfit (St. Louis, MO) are made from 100% recyclable paperboard. Designed for customers requiring dust-free and scuff-resistant protective packing.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging web sites

Remember, type http:// in front of each address. Ambec, Inc. www.ambec.com American Frozen Food Institute www.affi.com FlexLink Systems Co. www.flexlink.se Great Lakes Packaging Corp.

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

New level of packaging technology reaches Jim Beam (sidebar)

Licking a condensation problem

April 30, 1997

Sustainability

Chairman of the printed board

Connelly Containers has what it believes is the largest flexo/folder/gluer/stitcher in the world. Four-color process printing can be done directly on triple-wall corrugated board.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Material handling brochure

A four-color brochure from AccuLift (Blanchester, OH) offers solutions to palletizing, conveying and other challenges through custom-built systems.

April 30, 1997

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Matrix finds 'suede' takes special handling

The use of a new copolymer for its 'soft feel' requires special care in container handling to preserve its appearance for men's haircare line. That risk wins a Best of Show in the National Assn. of Container Distributors competition.

April 30, 1997

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

The king of cups

Start-up company Dr. McDougall's Right Foods had lofty targets for packaging speed and accuracy. So it invested heavily in sophisticated packaging equipment before it even had a product ready for the marketplace.

April 30, 1997

Flexible packaging

Multipack cartoner

Model TC-60ST multipack cartoner is an intermittent-motion cartoner from Tisma Machinery (Elk Grove Village, IL) designed for pouched, bagged, wrapped, cartoned and blister-packed products.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Foil laminate

Aluforce is a new line of foil/paper laminates from Groupe Gascogne (Merignac, France) designed for use in food packaging applications. It's available in four varieties: kraft, surface-treated kraft, calendared kraft or surface treated and calendared kraft.

April 30, 1997

Cartoning

Servo drive

Indramat's (Hoffman Estates, IL) new Sercos fiber-optic interface version of the Ecodrive digital servo drive economically integrates motion control functions, amplifier, power supply and axis I/O functions in a single unit.

April 30, 1997