Flexible packaging

Pouch machinery fills versatility needs

Hf/f/s pouch equipment reduces material waste and ups speed for California Redi-Date. The contract packager plans to employ a similar machine to add versatility.

September 30, 2000

Machinery: Page 951

Conveying & accumulation

Putting a wrap on enhanced productivity

A new shrink wrapping system has doubled packaging speed and cut downtime in half at this Arizona maker of adhesive lettering.

September 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Ocean Spray rides a new bus (sidebar)

Controls package illustrated

September 30, 2000

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Ocean Spray rides a new bus

On a new Craisins line at Ocean Spray, point-to-point wiring between machine devices and their master PLC has been replaced on some machines by an open fieldbus called AS-i. Installation time is slashed, while in-plant flexibility is maximized.

September 30, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Solutions 2000: world's largest packaging conference

PACK EXPO International 2000 is not only the biggest U.S. packaging show, but this year it also boasts what it calls “the world’s largest conference:” Solutions 2000, planned for Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 6-8.

September 30, 2000

Flexible packaging

Stand-up pouches push the retail envelope

Nabisco rolls out Mini Chips Ahoy! cookies in a resealable stand-up pouch while Patrick Cudahy uses a pouch for frozen, precooked meats. And in Ecuador, an integral straw helps kids sip fruit drinks from a stand-up pouch.

September 30, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Positively different battery packaging (sidebar)

A tubular Leap

September 30, 2000

Sustainability

Positively different battery packaging

Consumers should get a charge out of the new innovations in battery packaging in which clarity and reclosability top the list of conveniences offered by Rayovac and Leap brand batteries.

September 30, 2000

Flexibles

Hardware products renovate with packaging

Packaging seen at the National Hardware Show ranged from consumer-friendly packaging for data comm products to innovative film cubes for potting soil. The softer side of hardware was seen in a trend toward products packaged for females and light do-it-yourselfers.

September 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Associated Bag Co.: Packaging and shipping

A free 166-page catalog from Associated Bag (Milwaukee, WI) features hundreds of new packaging products and shipping supplies. Also included are numerous hard-to-find products.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Elf Machinery: Parts catalog

ELF Machinery (La Porte, IN) and World Cup (La Porte, IN) announce 2 new print versions of their packaging machinery parts catalogs. Both include part names, numbers, photographs and descriptions of use.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Graphic Packaging Corporation: Graphic Packaging Corporation: Graphic Packaging Corporation: Graphic Packaging Corporation: Conference proceedings

Packaging Strategies (West Chester, PA) has made the proceedings from its Packaging Strategies 2000 conference available. Presentations given by executives at Huhtamäki Van Leer, Graphic Packaging Corp., Netgrocer, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Rexam PLC, Pechiney Plastic Packaging, and Graham Packaging Co., L.P.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc: Package tracking

Hoover Group, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) has introduced an application service provider technology for tracking returnable packaging. “Internet Tracking Recovery and Asset Management” (iTRAM™) uses the Internet, through which users can access Hoover’s software, as well as its bar code and radio-frequency identification systems, to track any returnable packages throughout the distribution chain.

August 31, 2000