Flexibles

Barrier films are on a roll (sidebar)

Two-pronged attack in case -- ready meats

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Flow wrapping

Packagers take a lease on new business

Packagers that lease equipment cite preservation of working capital and tax benefits as advantages over buying.

September 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Mixing container

Lameplast (Novi di Modena, Italy) has introduced a plastic container (resin type is not identified) that allows the user to mix a powder with a liquid and drink from the bottle.

August 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Gas-phase resins

Chevron Chemical (Houston, TX) has published a brochure titled "Bringing You More," which details its new high-performance, high-density gas-phase resins for blow molding.

August 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Molded pulp answers the call

Molded pulp inserts protect telephone products from the receiving dock to assembly and through distribution. They replace EPS cushions and the need for ESD bags.

August 31, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Solutions 99 conference focuses on emerging technologies

Solutions 99 is the educational conference that will be part of Pack Expo Las Vegas, Oct. 18 to 20. Three mornings of seminars feature the latest topics in packaging. Pre-registration deadlines for the conference and for the show are Sept. 27.

August 31, 1999

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Oil packer's ink-jets add bar codes

Private-label motor oil customers seek better bottle codes and bar codes on cases. Packer siezes opportunity to upgrade to a networked system using wax-based inks that help plant achieve pollution cutbacks.

August 31, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Resin performs swimmingly for Salmolux

Federal Way, WA-based smoked seafood producer Salmolux Inc. markets gourmet smoked salmon at retail and restaurants internationally. Recently, Salmolux changed packaging film specs for its skin-packs.

August 31, 1999

Converting equipment

PEN strikes again

Coatings and multilayer structures, not polyethylene naphthalate, have commanded center stage lately when it comes to plastic barrier bottles for beer (see Packaging World, June '99, p.

August 31, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Survey results

PCI (PET Packaging, Resin & Recycling) Ltd.'s (Derby, England) annual survey of post-consumer PET bottle collection volumes is included in the company's March 1999 PET Recycling Consulting Service bi-monthly business report.

July 31, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: International agreements

KoSa (Charlotte, NC) has named Bamberger Polymers Canada Inc. (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) as its exclusive distributor of PET packaging resins in Canada.

July 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Filling PET aseptically at 200/min

With a prototype system in one plant and generation two in another, this Italian food company likes what it sees in rotary, aseptic filling of teas and sports drinks in PET.

July 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Water bottler in Spain launches handled PET

Solan de Cabras, a bottled water marketer in Cuenca, Spain, is among the first users of a new injection/ stretch blow-molding technology from Aoki (Elk Grove Village, IL).

July 31, 1999