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Pipeline: Confessions of a club store addict

It doesn’t matter what name is over the door; there is something about club stores that makes them a magnet for me. It wasn’t so bad when we had a big chest freezer in the basement plus a second refrigerator.

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Flexibles

Baby food takes a bold step

Nestlé of South Africa breaks through baby food barriers with Pureeasy, pureed foods retorted in two sizes of premade, glass-coated plastic pouches.

December 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Inkjet controller

I-Mark™ is available as either a raw controller board, with or without enclosure, or as a complete standalone system with Windows CE touch-screen interface, keyboard, enclosure, and other options.

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Golden State Vintners: Wine bottle inspection

Emerging from the filler enclosure, wine bottles are conveyed through a Heuft (Downers Grove, IL) detection unit that uses a combination of photocells and high-frequency signals to check for cork presence, cork breakage, and improper fill height.

November 30, 2002

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Affordable vf/f/s machine

Rovema displayed for the first time at PackExpo 2002 a new line of economical baggers. The intermittent-motion Model VPI-260 E is built for a heat seal execution for the production of pillow style bags.

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Custom filling at Merck

Whitehouse Station, NJ-based Merck & Co.’s custom manufactured filling line for the award-winning Ocular[r] Plus vial used for ophthalmic products is located at MSD, Mirabel, France. The equipment is from IMA in Bologna, Italy.

November 30, 2002

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Hardware Special Report (Web jump)

Multipack ‘can’ rolls into storesGlue bottle ingeniously dispenses convenienceReclosable holo bag stands out

November 30, 2002

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Banner Engineering Corp.: Machine-mountable sensor

Banner Engineering’s (Minneapolis, MN) IP67-rated FI22 inline fiber optic sensor, which operates without an enclosure, can be surface-mounted directly on machinery.

November 30, 2002

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Kraft's bye-bye to the can-opener?

Kraft Foods has substituted a peelable membrane closure for the conventional steel end on the top of some of its Maxwell House-brand ground coffees.

November 30, 2002

Flexibles

Gillette tries a tear strip

Introduced this summer, Boston-based Gillette Co.'s resealable package for all disposable razors utilizes a pressure-sensitive tape reclosure system from Sealstrip (Boyertown, PA).

November 30, 2002

Flexibles

Pez juice launched in pouch

In the candy business, Pez in its refillable dispenser is a classic. Now Leading Brands, Inc., is marketing a Pez shelf-stable juice, in a 8.54-oz (250-mL) “no-spill” stand-up pouch topped with a collectible Pez character.

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Vial delivers eye-opening ingenuity

Arthur Lifshey, a senior fellow engineer with Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, NJ, is the inventive mind behind the patented Ocumeter® Plus, a high-density polyethylene vial for ophthalmic products.

November 30, 2002

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Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

November 30, 2002