Converting equipment

New Anew comes in PET

In adding Anew Day Force, an advanced "vertical lifting lotion," to its premium line of Anew skin-care products, New York-based Avon could have specified a glass jar similar to the one used for Anew Night Force lotion.

January 31, 1999

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Clinton serves up food safety

Food companies seem likely to face tighter scrutiny of how packaging is stored and used under proposals. New EPA testing could finger some materials.

December 31, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Software helps SmithKline gain compliance (sidebar)

How a packaging spec is born

December 31, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Wellman, Inc. (Shrewsbury, NJ) will relocate the U.S. production of its EcoClear(TM) recycled-content PET resin for packaging applications from its Day Products facility in Bridgeport, NJ, to its Johnsonville, SC, recycling operation.

December 31, 1998

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

H.B. Fuller Co. (St. Paul, MN) has entered into a strategic marketing alliance with Corn Products (Bedford Park, IL), appointing Corn Products as sales agent for H.B.

December 31, 1998

Sustainability

Brewers pouring into plastic

Brewers around the world have been on the fence about plastic bottles. Suddenly they're commercializing a variety of plastic barrier structures.

November 30, 1998

Closures

Miller's plastic beer bottle solves first of three marketplace puzzles

Those of us who thought Anheuser-Busch would be the first American brewer to market beer in plastic bottles at retail were surprised when, in early November, A-B turned out to be no more than a very interested observer as Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, commercially introduced three beers in unique, five-layer, oxygen-scavenging plastic bottles from Owens-Illinois' Continental PET Technologies, Inc.

November 30, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Silver cleaner polishes its look

Silver Blue's complete overhaul eliminates leakage and breakage while improving esthetics.

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: GE Fanuc Automation: GE Fanuc Automation: Fire-safe pallet

Cookson Plastic Molding (Latham, NY) and GE Plastics (Pittsfield, MA) have developed AdvantEDGE(TM), said to be the first pallet to meet the new National Fire Protection Assn.'s standards for industrial fire safety.

October 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Honey shows off in clear PET (sidebar)

Europe knows about honey in PET

October 31, 1998

Tamper-evident machinery

Lilly likes PEN for veterinary product

A new treatment for respiratory problems in pigs and chickens is administered in the field, where the breakability of glass packaging is a concern. A homopolymer PEN bottle provides a shatter-resistant answer and delivers all the shelf life needed.

October 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Honey shows off in clear PET

Burleson overcomes technical and cost hurdles to become one of the first honey marketers to use PET containers. Now in development is a PET jar for foodservice holding 5 lb of honey.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

DuPont Packaging: Barrier film

A new barrier film, made with nylon and a new grade of DuPont (Wilmington, DE) Surlyn® packaging resin, was developed by Italian converter Alcom Srl (Campogalliano, Italy).

September 30, 1998