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Additives, coatings & inks

Smart air freshener makes scents

Airoma uses electronic charges and a memory card to create custom scents.

September 30, 2005

Secondary Packaging

New tray loader

PACK EXPO : Sigpack Systems, a Bosch Packaging Technology Co. launched its new compact WTI tray loader in September at the Pack Expo Las Vegas show.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Food companies itching for answers

FDA is slow to address question of allergen labeling in packaging.

August 31, 2005

Additives, coatings & inks

Tube product line

Greiner Bio-One offers a new versatile tube product line in a variety of resins and sizes. The polystyrene and polycarbonate offer ideal clarity for optical measurements, while polyethylene and polypropylene display superior thermal and chemical resistance with minimal binding characteristics.

August 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Companies

Kliklok-Woodman and CMD Corp.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Easy-tear material garners Gold

Designed to replace cellophane in laminations for packaging prophylactics, Alcan Packaging-Medical Flexibles Americas’ Tear Anywhere™ (TA) film is a multilayer, coextruded substrate designed to perform with similar characteristics to competitive easy-tear films.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Stand-up pouch with built-in straw

Made with a film structure of DuPont Teijin PET film and Dow PE resins, the novel pouch package design lies in a patented built-in straw. Because the straw is inside the pouch, it won’t get detached and lost and it’s protected from contamination.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Rx distributor turns to internal RFID (sidebar)

Medical device packaging market outlook bright

August 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

BIB tap maintains sterility in use

A patented dispenser tap that keeps low-acid bag-in-box products aseptic after opening draws end-user interest, including Dale’s Kitchen for soup stocks.

August 31, 2005

Converting equipment

Conical PET bottle

Novapak offers its Footed Conical PET container in 8-oz and 16-oz sizes. Container is designed for use with caps, pumps, or sprayers, making it suitable for a variety of personal care, household, and automotive products.

July 31, 2005

Flexibles

Antiblock additive masterbatch

Product 102286 high-clarity slip antiblock from Ampacet helps eliminate the loss of clarity that often accompanies anitblock use. When inorganic anitblocking agents are added to linear low-density polyethylene films, film haze generally increases, the company says.

July 31, 2005

Additives, coatings & inks

BARRIER RESIN MARKET TO REACH $8.6 BILLION

Last year, the U.S. market for packaging barrier resins amounted to about 5.9 billion lb. It’s expected to rise at an overall average annual growth rate of 8.1% to 8.6 billion lb by 2009 according to RP-137U Plastics for Barrier Packaging from Business Communications Co., Inc.

July 31, 2005