Controls & Machine Components

Rexam Closures & Containers: Rexam Closures & Containers: CR closure and tube

TubeLoK from Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) and Cebal Tubes North America is a CR closure and tube concept. The package meets the new Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations for products that may contain lidocaine or dibucaine and come in a tube.

October 31, 1999

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Closures

Industrial Dynamics/filtec: Inspection system

The Filtec AA-1000 acoustic analyzer from Industrial Dynamics (Torrance, CA) uses sound waves and vibration to detect tiny changes in vacuum or pressure in bottles capped with ferrous closures.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Designing & sharing packaging specs on-line

If you want to share your packaging specs with colleagues or vendors, visit www.webpkg.com. The site's tagline says it all: "Design packaging.

October 31, 1999

Closures

Welch tries plastic for hot-fill jams and jellies

Welch Foods is now testing a heat-set, hot-fillable jar made of polyethylene terephthalate for 32-oz jars of jelly and jam. The Concord, MA, firm is mum on the location and duration of the test.

October 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Carlsberg's plastic beer bottle adds barrier

Just a few months after introducing a refillable beer bottle made of polyethylene naphthalate in Denmark (see Packaging World, Sept. '99, p. 10, or packworld.

October 31, 1999

Closures

Drug packaging regs

Packaging for an approved new drug may be affected by FDA's proposed amendments to its new drug regulations. At issue is when any change to an approved new drug requires the filing of a supplemental new drug application (SNDA), when FDA prior approval is needed, and when a notice in an annual report is sufficient.

October 31, 1999

Converting equipment

Bayer pours into lawn-and-garden containers

Spotted at the August National Hardware Show in Chicago were containers from Bayer-Pursell that are notable for their combination of functionality and good looks.

October 31, 1999

Closures

CTC Parker Automation: PC-based HMI control

PowerPanel(TM) from CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH) is a PC-based control and HMI solution for OEM machine builders. The flat-panel monitor and remote PC box are bundled with CTC's Interact HMI software.

September 30, 1999

Cartoning

Packaging helps Johnson & Johnson enter food business

A custom thermoform and sophisticated packaging machinery help bring Johnson & Johnson's cholesterol-reducing Benecol spread to supermarkets across the country.

September 30, 1999

Flexibles

Keebler trumpets 'hand puppet' pouch

Last month, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler Co. introduced stand-up contour pouches for its new 7-oz Elf® Grahams snacks. The pouches are meant to be used as hand puppets after the product is consumed.

September 30, 1999

Flexibles

Kellogg cereal in linerless gabletop carton

In recent years, cereal marketers have turned to flexible pouches and bags to differentiate their products from traditional bag-in-box offerings. Kellogg, however, took a different tack in introducing Special K Plus(TM).

September 30, 1999

Closures

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Phoenix Closures (Naperville, IL) has purchased a 127ꯠ sq' facility in Davenport, IA, which will become a fully automated closure mfg.

September 30, 1999

Closures

Anheuser-Busch recalls European beer in glass

The nation's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch, last month recalled nearly six million bottles of beer in 12 European countries because of safety concerns.

September 30, 1999