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Sustainable Packaging
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Flexible packaging
A different kind of portal (sidebar)
Capsule reviews
March 31, 2001
Machinery: Page 928
Converting equipment
A different kind of portal
While e-marketplaces, hubs, exchanges and portals cling to dear life now that funding sources have dried up, weve seen the quiet emergence of another type of so-called portal: Call it the information portal.
March 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Air cushions salve Omron's shipping wounds
Medical supply distributor switches from loose-fill “peanuts” to an air-cushioned void fill to satisfy customers and cut space requirements.
March 31, 2001
Converting equipment
Southpack offers packaging solutions
Running April 24 to 26 in Atlanta, Southpack 2001 is right in the back yard of 77ꯠ manufacturing companies. Some 500 exhibitors will display their wares.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
'Sprinting' to automated efficiency
New bagging equipment makes it easy for this California manufacturer to package its disposable travel toilet for either industrial or retail channels.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
Kit Kat Bites the 'Junkyard Dog'
To promote the best use of company equipment, Hershey Foods annually recognizes the team that saves the most money. Two packaging lines for Kit Kat Bites won for 2000.
March 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Skepticism surrounds rebuilt packaging equipment
Some 55% of 286 respondents to a Web survey said their companies had purchased used or rebuilt packaging equipment, or had their own packaging machines rebuilt. Heres a look at what was replaced and the benefits they sought to gain.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
Rebuilt gear means speed to market
Beginning with two metal detector/checkweighers and moving quickly to htf/f/s machinery, Reichel Foods has had a positive experience with rebuilt packaging equipment.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
Non-food flexible packs devour awards
FPA recognizes a multilayer p-s ‘book’ label for cleaners, a plastic header bag, a resealable stand-up pouch, a high-barrier industrial wrap, formable and peelable webs for a medical package, and a CR reclosable bag for pharmaceuticals.
March 31, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Technical prowess, flexible style
Two improved package materials, one for cup lidding, one for microwave wrapping, secured Technical Innovation awards in the Flexible Packaging Assn. competition. Printing and Environmental Achievement awards also went to new technologies.
March 31, 2001
Secondary Packaging
Diners find film packs ideal for every meal course
From soups and salads to poultry, foods of all types become winners at the market—and in the 2000 Flexible Packaging Assn. competition.
March 31, 2001
Flexible packaging
Bulk-packed Craisins pick up the pace
As demand for its sweetened dried cranberries in 10- and 25-lb boxes continued to increase, Ocean Spray responded with a brand new bag-in-box line.
March 31, 2001
Conveying & accumulation
Rayovac charges up battery lines
Two new production lines package AA and AAA batteries, respectively, into peggable, reclosable RPET clamshells. Integrated setups include self-designed battery handling systems.
March 31, 2001
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