Conveying & accumulation

Waste not, want more

Laidlaw automates sorting of post-consumer recyclables at its Schaumburg, IL, material recovery facility. First-of-its-kind system separates plastics into four categories.

October 31, 1995

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Sustainability

Rep. Shays pressing FDA on indirect additives

FDA hopes new TOR policy will lead to quicker approval of packaging materials, and deflation of building political pressure.

October 31, 1995

Converting equipment

New blow-molding process for heat-set PET bottles

Monotherm technology produces PET bottles that can be filled at temperatures as high as 95°C. New Age beverages and returnable/refillable bottles are target applications.

October 31, 1995

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Some like it hot

Upstart cap molder Acadiana Plastics Manufacturing outfitted its injection molders with hot runner manifolds and a quick-change mold system for faster cycles, quick changeover and better quality PP caps.

October 31, 1995

Sustainability

RHDPE for food contact in nine months?

Could the next nine months bring letters of nonobjection by the FDA for recycled high-density polyethylene in food contact applications?

October 31, 1995

Converting equipment

Clarified PP bottles make envirosense in Canada

At PAC-EX '95, Canada's national packaging exhibition, a pallet load of plastic bottles containing colored water had attendees guessing. The clear round and square bottles were from Container Corp.

October 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Putting color additives onto labels

FDA wants processors and manufacturers of butter, cheese and ice cream to declare FD&C Yellow No. 6 by name in the ingredient list on labels of products containing this color additive.

October 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Hoechst Celanese (Spartanburg, SC): Beth Calhoun, marketing mgr., North American PET packaging resins.

September 30, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Octagonal container

Georgia-Pacific (Atlanta, GA) has introduced a modified octagonal container that is said to provide 40% performance improvement over traditional laminated containers while using 30% less material.

August 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Color control

Gretag Color Control's (Chicopee, MA) software programs provide color control for the graphics industry. Ink Formulation allows new formulations of inks with scattering pigments used in flexographic and gravure printing.

August 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Part 2How purchasing copes with higher prices (sidebar)

Purchasers skewer vendors with increasing prices

August 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Lens tray is a software solution

Optical mirrors used in bar code scanners now move from fabrication to coating in PS trays designed with a big boost from a 3-D software package.

August 31, 1995

Sustainability

Roller coaster ride for recycled plastics, paper markets

As the buying habits of Procter & Gamble, Lever Brothers, Clorox and People's Republic of China go, so goes the U.S. market for recycled packaging materials. Recycling capacity and changes in feedstock play major roles, too.

August 31, 1995