Labeling

P-s labeler

The UNI-510 p-s labeler from Charles LaPierre (Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada) labels pharmaceutical, food and personal care containers at speeds to 300/min.

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Conveying & accumulation

Is bar-coding a valuable customer service?

When customers asked for bar codes to help control inventory,Sherwin-Williams got the message. It implemented a custom print/apply bar code labeling system.

November 30, 1994

Controls & Machine Components

PET jars

Berman Brothers (Chicago, IL) has introduced a new line of PET jars, available in 9-, 20.5-, 24- and 32-oz stock sizes. They can be used for a variety of food and other products.

November 30, 1994

Controls & Machine Components

Multipacker for beverages

Riverwood's (Atlanta, GA) Quikflex(TM) BP packaging machine for fully-enclosed multipacks fills up to 150 partitioned or 180 nonpartitioned packs/min.

November 30, 1994

Controls & Machine Components

Scoop and measures brochure

Measurex (Nazareth, PA) has introduced a brochure highlighting its line of plastic scoops and measures for food, beverage and chemical applications.

November 30, 1994

Controls & Machine Components

Rotary unscrambling table

National Instrument (Baltimore, MD) has introduced the Model UTL-60 Rotary Unscrambling Table for small containers. Can unscramble 3-mL, 6-mL or 10-mL glass vials at speeds to 300 containers/min.

November 30, 1994

Flexibles

LLDPE-type resin

Quantum (Cincinnati, OH) has formulated a new LLDPE-type tie-layer resin that has good adhesion to EVOH, nylons, ionomers, PE and ethylene copolymers in coextrusion applications.

November 30, 1994

Conveying & accumulation

Pepsi line has future in mind

Fast changeover and overall versatility were foremost in mind when Pepsi designed its high-speed line for hard-to-handle one-piece PET bottles in four different sizes. Machine redundancy, computerization, and modular construction all contribute significantly.

November 30, 1994

Conveying & accumulation

Palletizing system brews up savings for Miller

At Miller Brewing Company's Trenton, OH, plant, a switch from stretch wrap to a cohesive palletizing system has resulted in considerable reductions in material and labor costs while cutting waste as well.

November 30, 1994

Sustainability

Versatile vinyl clearly a winner

Innovation played the key role in this year's Vinyl in Packaging Awards competition. Some winners were decidedly "green" as well.

November 30, 1994

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Food groups oppose Mexican labeling proposal

A regulation proposed by Mexico to prohibit food companies from using Spanish language labels applied over existing labels for the Mexican market is being opposed by two major U.S.

November 30, 1994

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Survey says "Nutrition Facts" is communicating

Congress mandated it, the food industry fought it, and converters scrambled mightily to incorporate it on the labels and packaging materials they produce for U.S.

November 30, 1994

Secondary Packaging

Stretch replaces shrink

For insulation manufacturer Litepac, shrink wrapping stacks of polystyrene insulation was a costly process-both in money and in material waste. The Granard, County Longford, Ireland-based company's change to a System 2000 Double Stretch Bander from EDL Packaging Engineers (Green Bay, WI) not only provided savings but ended the potential problem of board distortion caused by heat from shrink wrapping.

November 30, 1994