Conveying & accumulation

Lassonde innovates with Italian aseptic filler

Squared off in shape like its 2-L predecessor, Lassonde’s 420-mL PET bottle is aseptically filled at 400/min. It’s sold in a three-pack format that’s new to North America.

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Conveying & accumulation

Red Devil cranks up convenience

Home repair is made easy with caulk and sealants in squeeze tubes. A patented device fitted on the tube’s end allows consumers to roll up the empty end of the tube, thereby ensuring that virtually all of the product can be used. Red Devil uses the tubes for eight SKUs, including kitchen and bath caulk, wallpaper seam repair, tile adhesive and tile grout.

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Tamper-evident machinery

Videos demo equipment online

Video on the Web is nothing new. However, only recently has video begun to be a useful tool for business.

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Controls & Machine Components

Permanent Label Corp.: Acid-etched bottles

Brand awareness and shelf presence are enhanced with Perma-Frost™ acid-etched glass bottles from Permanent Label (Clifton, NJ). Clear windows and other designs can be etched onto round, square or uniquely shaped bottles.

March 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label adhesive

Fasson® R300 is a p-s labeling adhesive designed for high-speed application and removal of TE spine labels that seal jewel-type cases used in the packaging of CDs, DVDs and computer software.

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Flexible packaging

Bag filler/sealer

The Sak Pak bag filler and sealer from O/K Intl. (Marlborough, MA) fills 10 to 110 lb of free-flowing powders and grains, as well as liquids, into open-mouth bags that are premade of paper, plastic or woven fiber.

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Secondary Packaging

Columbia Machine: Case palletizer

Designed for use on high-speed beverage packing lines, the servo-driven HL8000 palletizer from Columbia (Vancouver, WA) loads pallets with 100 cases/min.

March 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Nadel Industries, Inc: PETG jars

Nadel Industries (Port Chester, NY) offers new styles and sizes for its line of heavy-wall jars made of Eastman’s (Kingsport, TN) Eastar™ PETG copolyester.

March 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Expac Corp.: Expac Corp.: Dispensing pump

Mega Pumps’ dispenser pump packages, available from Expac (Montvale, NJ), are injection-molded from polyolefin resins in 7 separate parts, with no metal components.

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Controls & Machine Components

MGS Machine Corp.: Outserter

The SideWinder™ from MGS (Maple Grove, MN) uses hot-melt glue to attach outserts to pharmaceutical containers at speeds to 200 bottles/min. No tools are needed to load outserts into the magazine.

March 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

National Plastics, Inc: National Plastics, Inc: Plastics museum

The National Plastics Center and Museum (Leominster, MA) describes its numerous changes, upgrades and offerings in a new brochure. Brochure illustrates the newest attractions and programs, including a new interactive Discovery Corner, Plastics in Medicine exhibit and environmental gallery.

March 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Smurfit-Stone: Paper canister

Smurfit-Stone (Chicago, IL) has developed PaperCan™, which uses a paperboard body with an integrated easy-to-open-and-close paperboard lid. Made of laminated or barrier-coated paperboard that can be linear or blank-formed.

March 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Liberty Paper, Inc: Moisture barrier linerboard

M-Guard® Moisture Barrier from Liberty Paper (Becker, MN) is a repulpable linerboard that repels moisture yet looks, feels, corrugates and prints like regular linerboard.

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