Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

PVC clamshells open up markets for hitching mirrors

Moving out of the box and into marketable, protective clear PVC clamshells gets results for ‘The Backup Buddy,’ a mirror assembly for hitching trailers.

July 31, 2000

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Achievements

Tesa Tape (Charlotte, NC) was awarded the Mayor’s Intl. Community Award for 2000, a tribute to foreign-owned firms that have made significant contributions to the city’s nonprofit sector.

July 31, 2000

Flexibles

Relocations, expansions

DT Industries Packaging Group (Springfield, MO) has created DT Eng. Services, a service that enables its customers to tap the resources of engineers from the 18 global mfg.

July 31, 2000

Sustainability

Pitney Bowes totes reusable plastic containers

Corrugated plastic containers replace corrugated paperboard boxes for postage meter and mailing machine parts. Despite greater upfront costs, the new ‘totes’ save Pitney Bowes money by making hundreds of round trips.

July 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Hologram enhances Schick FxDiamond™ shaver

When the Schick/Wilkinson Sword Div. released the Schick FxDiamond™, a shaver with a diamond coating on the blades, it turned to Fisher Design (Cincinnati, OH) to create a package that’s as distinctive and “dazzling” as the product.

June 30, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Innovative blister package

Appropriate for pharmaceuticals, OTC drugs and nutrition supplements, Dosepak™ contains 3 main design elements: an outer carton, a fold-over inner blister card, and a senior-friendly, yet child-resistant, locking feature.

June 30, 2000

Additives, coatings & inks

Polypropylene shows growth potential

Foodservice and retail applications will help drive growth in thermoformed packaging at an annual rate of 5.6%, with polypropylene leading the way with an estimated annual growth of nearly 20%.

June 30, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Kringle tray's a sweet success (sidebar)

Corrugated thermoforming goes commercial

June 30, 2000

Secondary Packaging

Kringle tray's a sweet success

Racine Danish Kringles is first to use a thermoformed, E-flute corrugated tray for its baked pastries. Tray delivers strength and environmental and marketing advantages.

June 30, 2000

Cartoning

Planters picks a packing line

Consumers are clearly fond of single-serve “tubes” of Planters nuts. An automated packaging line helps keep the nationwide pipeline full.

June 30, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Lyle Industries, Inc: Thermoforming equipment

Lyle Industries (Beaverton, MI) and Gabler Maschinenbau (Lübeck, Germany) will introduce new thermoforming equipment. Lyle’s new servo-driven, high-speed vertical bottle trimmer includes dual-lane shuttle platens and servo-driven indexing and separator screws.

May 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Triangle Package Machinery Co.: Tray weigher/filler

The servo-driven X-Y Depositech scale/filler from Triangle (Chicago, IL) weighs and deposits up to 140 discharges/min into thermoformed trays. Used largely in packing food products, the machine combines weighments of up to 8 ingredients, and 250 recipes can be stored in memory.

May 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Klockner Medipak: Robotic blister packager

Klöckner Medipak (Clearwater, FL) distributes the Fleximation Trialpack unit-dose blister packaging system with a robotic filling mechanism. The robot fills at speeds to 54 blisters/min using an integrated vision system and vacuum grippers.

May 31, 2000