Controls & Machine Components

Vacuum packaging system

Cryovac (Duncan, SC) has introduced the Model VC-14A, a fully automatic vacuum packaging system designed to meet the needs of medium-sized food processing operations.

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Secondary Packaging

Pre-stretch film system

Accu-thread from ITW Mima (Boca Raton, FL) is a powered pre-stretch film delivery system with an improved film threading feature. Pre-stretches film up to 300% before wrapping it around the pallet load.

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Controls & Machine Components

Public policy book

A 60-page booklet describing 1995's public policy positions is now available from The American Iron and Steel Institute (Washington, DC). Issues range from energy and health care reform to OSHA regulations.

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Controls & Machine Components

Contract manufacturing

A new four-color brochure from CCL Custom Manufacturing (Rosemont, IL) discusses the company's wide range of contract manufacturing ca-pabilities including compounding, mixing, filling and packaging.

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Sustainability

Spicing up a line

Specialty Brands revamps its Durkee Spice products for a more contemporary look. A switch from PP to PET, new sizes, graphics and freshness coding add flavor to a well-established line.

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Conveying & accumulation

Shrink wrap system provides big retail thrust

A shrink wrapper overcomes heat and packing obstacles to bundle two 24-count trays of mr. big candy bars, enabling Neilson Cadbury to satisfy Canada's retailer demand for a 48-count pack.

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Conveying & accumulation

In the Hunt for higher output

To rejuvenate its old packaging, office supplies giant Hunt Manufacturing turns to one supplier for both a new package design and more productive machinery. The result is higher output with less labor.

October 31, 1995

Conveying & accumulation

Waste not, want more

Laidlaw automates sorting of post-consumer recyclables at its Schaumburg, IL, material recovery facility. First-of-its-kind system separates plastics into four categories.

October 31, 1995

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Maybelline 'caps' thermoforming technology

High-cavity tooling and a unique tandem trim operation with special matched-metal cutting dies produce a new inner cover for lipsticks. Shrink label provides security for products sold without blister cards.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Spicing up a line (sidebar)

New flavors for sample packs

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Canadian/American aseptic PET bottling line has European roots

by Ben Miyares, editorial director, Packaging Strategies

October 31, 1995

Converting equipment

New blow-molding process for heat-set PET bottles

Monotherm technology produces PET bottles that can be filled at temperatures as high as 95°C. New Age beverages and returnable/refillable bottles are target applications.

October 31, 1995

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Some like it hot

Upstart cap molder Acadiana Plastics Manufacturing outfitted its injection molders with hot runner manifolds and a quick-change mold system for faster cycles, quick changeover and better quality PP caps.

October 31, 1995