Contract Packaging

Rhapsody in blue

Rochester, NY-based Global Beverage's striking cobalt blue-tinted polyethylene terephthalate container is credited with firing up sales of its Bl Botol brand spring water since it debuted about 10 months ago.

April 30, 1997

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Flexibles

Getting noticed is now packaging mission #1

In today's market, there are more serious packaging developments than the emergence of beverage containers with walls purposefully bent out of shape.

April 30, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Supplier news: International agreements

Osgood Industries Inc. (Oldsmar, FL) now represents Schaefer & Flottmann (Gevelsberg, Germany), a manufacturer of case/traypackers and palletizing equipment, and Fisher-Mathews (Banbury, England), a manufacturer of sleeve wrapping equipment for cups, bottles and trays.

April 30, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

B&H Labeling Systems (Ceres, CA) opened a branch office in Querétaro, Mexico.

April 30, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

GEI Mateer Burt, Inc. (Wayne, PA) began manufacturing the PPM line of p-s labelers, which was formerly manufactured by GEI Ashford in the U.K.

April 30, 1997

Converting equipment

Gilette body wash hopes to hook consumers

A free-spinning hook is a central feature of Gillette's new body wash package, designed with assistance from Desgrippes Gobé & Associates (New York, NY).

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Cans are really shaping up at Coke

Hot on the heels of its curvy Coke can (see Packaging World, March '97, p. 8), Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is shaking up the can industry again.

April 30, 1997

Flexibles

Hershey's dinosaur holograms roam the market

Coinciding with the May release of the movie "The Lost World: Jurassic Park(TM)," Hershey, PA-based Hershey Foods launched its first holographic package.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Laser marking sytems

The latest generation of the Xymark(TM) Sprint Series of low-cost laser marking systems has been introduced by Lumonics (Oxnard, CA). It reaches operating speeds of up to 2ꯠ characters/second and marks up to four lines of text or graphics.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

English/metric converter

Venmark (Wellesley, MA) introduced a pocket English/metric converter that converts numbers by sliding the scale, aligning the known quantity in either English or metric units, and reading the corresponding value.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Lid dropper

The Adjustable High-Speed Lid Dropper from Simplex (Hayward, CA) applies metal lids to cans at speeds to 160 lids/min. Its patent-pending series of adjustable arms allows changeover of lid sizes to be accomplished in minutes using a wrench to adjust guide rails.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Collapsible container

Ropak Materials Handling Group (Georgetown, KY) has introduced a reusable, collapsible container suitable for staging, transporting and distributing heavy, dense parts.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Bottle diverter

Bottling Development (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has introduced a selectable lane diverter that can be custom designed to fit most existing equipment.

March 31, 1997