Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Reformulating the bottle

When automotive chemical manufacturer Snap Products expanded its "Outlaw" line of fuel additive products and reformulated other premium products, the company chose to revamp packaging with an innovative aluminum bottle.

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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Phillips Petroleum Co. (Bartlesville, OK) has approved a 20 million lb capacity enhancement for its K-Resin® copolymer plant in the Houston chemical complex.

February 28, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

BASF Corp. (Mount Olive, NJ) has expanded low-residual, high-heat crystal polystyrene resin capacity at its Joliet, IL, plant by 40 million lb/yr.

February 28, 1995

Sustainability

Restrictions on chlorine use worry plastics makers

Proposals that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) restrict the use of chlorine and chlorinated compounds are worrying plastics manufacturers. Some studies have indicated that chlorine is harmful to both human health and the environment.

February 28, 1995

Flexibles

HDPE films

The V-Max(TM) family of HDPE films from Van Leer Flexibles (Houston, TX) use Alathon® HDPE resins from Occidental Chemical Corp. V-Max is an extremely flat high-grade film used for food, medical packaging, and release liner applications.

January 31, 1995

Flexibles

New LDPE resin

Petrothene® NA 336-201 is a new LDPE resin from Quantum Chemical (Cincinnati, OH). It contains a high-level of slip agent that makes it suitable for thin-gauge film lines running at high output rates.

January 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

Colorants

PMS Consolidated's (Suwanee, GA) transparent, fluorescent colorants for plastic packaging provide a cost-effective way to dramatically alter plastic packaging.

January 31, 1995

Additives, coatings & inks

2.8% growth seen for plastic containers

U.S. demand for plastic containers is growing 2.8% annually and will reach 7.3 billion lb in 1998. So says a study, released in October, by The Freedonia Group of Cleveland, OH.

January 31, 1995

Sustainability

Chasing arrows stay-for now

The Society for the Plastics Industry (SPI) has decided not to change its resin identification code and the chasing arrows symbol, ending more than a year of negotiations with the National Recycling Coalition (NRC).

January 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Achievements

ISO 9002 registration: Bemis Co.'s Pepperell, MA. plant; Jefferson Smurfit Corp's Anderson, IN, container plant; Rex-Rosenlew Intl. Inc.

January 31, 1995

Labels

Coppertone's new label is a clear winner

Schering-Plough decided to bring in-house new p-s labeling of its suncare products. Along with special labels, the company needed labeling equipment-and also machine vision and ink-jet printing.

December 31, 1994

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

The New Resina Corporation (Brooklyn, NY) was formed when Ed Hunt and Chuck Lask purchased the assets of Resina Automatic Machinery Co.

December 31, 1994

Flexibles

PP bottles, PET film boast PCR content

Colgate-Palmolive's Murphy's oil soap has been in translucent blow-molded polypropylene bottles for years, and the New York-based firm had no desire to switch.

December 31, 1994