Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Break/peel/push blister security

A unique break/peel/push blister pack devised by Chicago-based G.D. Searle provides a heightened degree of child-resistance for its Covera-HS prescription medication, launched in June.

August 31, 1996

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Controls & Machine Components

Materials

International Paper's Thilmany Div. (Kaukauna, WI) introduces a superclean pulp with 50% moisture content and up to 80% less sand than standard versions.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Coated paper

Sterling® Ultra Brite(TM) C1S is a new coated-one-side paper from Westvaco (New York, NY) that offers a GE brightness level of 90. Available in 60#, 70#, 80# and 100# weights.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Hi-res printers

The Overture series of high-resolution printers from Marsh (Belleville, IL) use a carton template as a backdrop for simplified message creating. Users define the actual carton size, then insert various coding elements at desired locations.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

High-barrier composite can

The NP Container is a high-barrier composite container from Showa Denko Plastic Products (Tokyo, Japan). An aluminum foil layer and high-frequency welding of ring pull lid to container provides a reliable hermetic seal, comparable to that of metal cans, says the company.

July 31, 1996

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Printing

Windmoeller & Hoelscher's (Lincoln, RI) Heliostar® 2000 modular gravure press can be equipped with up to 10 stations that permit application of coating, and in-registration cold-seal on the reverse side of the web.

July 31, 1996

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Applications news

In Niles, IL, the Johns Byrne Co. added a Komori America (Rolling Meadows, IL) six-color New Lithrone 40" sheet-fed press with an in-line coater.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Printing

An automatic winding system collects the waste matrix generated by a press or die cutter. Available from Compensating Tension Controls (West Caldwell, NJ), the system works on all substrates and is adaptable to any press or die cutter.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Printing

An infrared/air dryer from France Rayonnement Technologies (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) improves adhesion of water-based inks and varnishes without overheating in flexographic or offset printing applications.

July 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Intermittent cartoner

Roberts Systems (Charlotte, NC) has introduced an on-demand, multi-axis servo-controlled intermittent cartoner called Servostar(TM). This multipack cartoner erects, loads, closes and seals cartons at speeds to 65/min, with 12" between cartons.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Supplies catalog

Associated Bag Co. (Milwaukee, WI) has released a 101-page catalog highlighting all of the traditional and hard-to-find packaging supplies offered by the company.

July 31, 1996

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Application News

Courtaulds Performance Films has doubled silicone coating capacity at its Martinsville, VA, facility by extensively upgrading an existing gravure coater with new ovens, drive systems and components supplied primarily by Faustel (Germantown, WI).

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Liquid filling systems

ELF Machines (LaPorte, IN) releases a new color brochure that describes the company's services and its line of packaging equipment. Included is a description of its fillers, cappers, labelers, conveyors, turntables, rinsers, and other specialty machinery.

July 31, 1996