Flexible packaging

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January 31, 2003

Machinery: Page 864

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Klöckner Pentaplast (Gordonsville, VA) unveils a new logo moving into 2003.

January 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA relaxes health claims rules

FDA announced a new policy on health claims on food labels, holding them to the same standard as dietary supplements. The “qualified” health claims must still be truthful, nonmisleading, and well substantiated by scientific evidence, but scientists need not have reached consensus on their validity.

January 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New sun warnings for popular cosmetics

FDA issued a draft guidance for labeling of topically applied cosmetics containing alpha hydroxy acids to ensure that labeling for these products is not false or misleading.

January 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Onboard drives enable Plug-and-Play

Sidel uses a new kind of washdown variable-frequency drive mounted right on its Plug-and-Play conveyors to reduce installation costs by more than 20%.

January 31, 2003

Labeling

Drug companies send FDA mixed message on bar codes

Brand-name, OTC and generic drug firms voice varying degrees of qualified acceptance of bar codes on pharmaceutical packages.

January 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Impressions Inc: Impressions Inc: Package design brochure

A new brochure from Dimensional Impressions (Encino, CA) details the benefits of Score!X™, its new packaging design software the allows the user to create, resize, and see each stage of package development and design.

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Leeson Electric: Stock catalog

Leeson (Grafton, WI) offers its stock catalog of electric motors, gearmotors, and drives. Catalog includes offerings such as new stainless-steel motors, SM Series sub-micro inverters, single phase PE350 gearmotors, and 575V metric motors.

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Utility outlet

Wago (Germantown, WI) DIN rail-mount utility outlet is a power source in control cabinets for connecting such items as test equipment, lighting, solder irons, and laptops.

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group: MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group: MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group: Folding carton brochure

Printers, converters, and packaging end users can get information regarding the expanded packaging options and enhanced benefits offered by Kraftpak® folding carton board in a new brochure available from MeadWestvaco’s Packaging Resources Group (Stanford, CT).

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Georgia-Pacific Corp.: Bleached paperboard

Georgia-Pacific (Atlanta, GA) is launching a new marketing strategy called Signature Solutions™ in its bleached-board business unit. The new strategy seeks to capitalize on the unit’s bleached board production capacity by establishing a branding platform for all bleached paperboard products produced by Georgia-Pacific.

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Kliklok-Woodman (Product): Vari-Right right-angle top-load carton closer

New Vari-Right right-angle top-load carton closer is the first system of its kind to offer a continuously variable pitch conveying design, according to supplier. Combines the carton size flexibility of lugless systems with the positive control of conventional flighted machines. I

December 31, 2002

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Omstead: Smooth vf/f/s for IQF chicken

On this vertical form/fill/seal machine at Omstead, a servo motor-driven cross-seal assembly is synchronized with side belts. Seal jaws make a smooth “D”-shaped cycle to close on the film tube, simultaneously sealing the top of the filled bag and forming a bottom seal for the next bag.

December 31, 2002