Machinery: Page 1290

Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: International agreements

AEG Daimler-Benz Industrie (Frankfurt, Germany) and Group Schneider (Paris, France) announced their automation controller venture, AEG Schneider Automation.

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Secondary Packaging

Making performance paper greener

Mead joins list of papermakers to develop processes permitting recovery of troublesome paper packaging. Repulpable wet-strength board could be a major boost to paper recovery.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

New windows in cosmetic packaging

What better way to promote visibility for a new product than to make its package see-through?

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Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Weyerhaeuser Co. (North Bend, OR) is converting its containerboard factory to run exclusively on waste paper and will close an adjoining pulp mill.

December 31, 1994

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Regaining market share

Pittsburgh, PA-based SmithKline Beecham hopes to reestablish its once prominent Contac brand with a major redesign, the first since the cough and cold remedy's introduction 33 years ago.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Films Div. of Mobil Chemical Co. increases its annual capacity worldwide with the addition of a metallizer to its Belleville, Ontario, Canada, facility and a second orienter to its plant in Kerkrade, The Netherlands.

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Sustainability

Playing Offense Looks Like Fun To Packaging Industry

"We have been fighting a defensive battle for a long time," said Richard Thornburg, director of government relations for the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), in assessing the impact of the November elections.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Packaging can be weapon against medication mistakes

Some 342 people die each day because of mistakes in taking medication, Dan Gerner told the annual meeting of the Drug, Chemical & Allied Trades last fall.

December 31, 1994

Converting equipment

Supplier news: International agreements

Riverwood Intl. Corp. (Atlanta, GA) is planning a new carton converting plant in Mexico.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Filler makes changeover a breeze

Tough-to-clean OTC pharmaceutical products like iodine and mercurochrome are no problem at changeover time since Humco installed a filler with automatic clean-in-place capabilities.

December 31, 1994

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Engraph Label Group's Patton Div. (Cold Spring, KY) has announced the opening of its VIP Health Care pharmaceutical label converting plant; Polaris Packaging Inc.

December 31, 1994

Flexibles

PP bottles, PET film boast PCR content

Colgate-Palmolive's Murphy's oil soap has been in translucent blow-molded polypropylene bottles for years, and the New York-based firm had no desire to switch.

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