Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

All-purpose medical pack

An award-winning thermoform package for Becton Dickinson’s surgical scalpel serves as a sterile barrier, a protective shipper, a sterile transfer tray from preparation to operating rooms and a point-of-use product dispenser. A blue-tint PETG outer tray, HIPS inner tray and a Tyvek lid replace an injection-molded box and foam insert.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Light shines on carded blister

Netherlands-based Philips Lighting Co. packages its Marathon brand of nonincandescent household bulbs to the American market in a carded pack that contains a recycled, amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (APET) blister set in an outer card. Changing from solid unbleached sulfate board to recycled board helped make an ecologically friendly, cost-saving package.

January 31, 2001

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Relocations, expansions

Captive Plastics (Piscataway, NJ) has added a controlled-environment production area to its Phillipsburg, NJ, facility. —Dow Performance Foams (Midland, MI) has announced the plans for a new production line to be added to each of its mfg.

January 31, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SeaShell drives away damage (sidebar)

Seagate serves two customer ‘streams’

January 31, 2001

Protective/transport packaging

SeaShell drives away damage

Disk drive manufacturer Seagate reduces damage by 60% and saves more than $4 million per year in freight and materials costs by switching to a thermoformed ‘SeaShell’ clamshell.

January 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Correctional facility bars wasted food, materials

A specially developed film applied to reusable trays on a heat-shrink machine helps the Milwaukee County House of Correction provide inmates with a tamper-evident package that reduces wasted food and packaging materials.

January 31, 2001

Flexible packaging

Fresh pasta maker romances long shelf life

Romance Foods pasteurizes its cooked, packaged pastas using a combination microwave/convection oven to achieve 75-day refrigerated shelf life.

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Sanford sold on 'cell' concept (sidebar)

Changeover changes

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Sanford sold on 'cell' concept (sidebar)

Initiating the ‘cell’ concept

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Sanford sold on 'cell' concept

In-line marker assembly and packaging, featuring an eight-station automatic heat-sealing unit, helps manufacturer increase production, save labor costs and meet just-in-time needs.

January 31, 2001

Cartoning

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: Packaging automation

Elau (Chicago, IL) has published a brochure on its PacDrive™ systems integrator. Brochure includes customer testimonials, information on customer service and product highlights.

December 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister standards higher than cap-and-vial, says HCPC

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has proposed a set of mandatory child-resistant packaging requirements for drugs that are switched from prescription to over-the-counter status.

December 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

P&G moisturizer sold in RPET

A clear clamshell made of recycled polyethylene terephthalate helps showcase the newest Oil of Olay® moisturizer from Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble. Thermoformed by Creative Forming (Ripon, WI), the clamshell recently earned an award in the Roll-fed/Consumer Housewares category in the 11th annual thermoforming competition sponsored by the Society of Plastics Engineers.

December 31, 2000