Closures

Beverages flow boldly into aluminum bottles

The path to product differentiation for two new beverages is a metallic one.

June 30, 2002

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Redesign quenches 'Dry' package

Made-over Canada Dry ginger ales, mixers, and sparkling wines hit consumer shelves.

June 30, 2002

Flexibles

Companies

–Flexicon Corp. (Bethlehem, PA) relocated into its new 90ꯠ sq’ mfg. facility and world headquarters.

June 30, 2002

Converting equipment

'Healthy' carton energizes nutritional beverage

Multilayer, skived-edge gable-top carton for NuVim’s energy drinks virtually eliminates previous carton’s tendency to bulge.

June 30, 2002

Closures

Grinders add a spicy twist

Grinders, from McCormick & Co., Hunt Valley, MD, enable consumers to add the flavor of fresh-ground spices into their foods.

June 30, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Frozen Specialties Inc.: Wrapped pizza inspection

Shrink-wrapped pizzas are checked by the first of FSI's two-part pizza inspection system from Cognex. The machine vision sensor is the metal cylinder near the top center of the first video segment.

May 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Hoffman: I/O enclosures

Hoffman (Anoka, MN) has added 10 new enclosure modules for I/O devices to its Inline® Instrumentation Enclosure Series. Full-length mounting brackets welded to the top and bottom of the enclosure provide flexible mounting.

May 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Brushless DC speed control

AXN Series brushless DC speed control system from Oriental Motor USA (Torrance, CA) develops 125 watts of motor shaft power. The drive and controller are housed in NEMA 4 enclosure.

May 31, 2002

Closures

Nestea's new look

Nestle replaces canister with shaped HDPE plastic with dosing cap.

May 31, 2002

Closures

Dry dental packs

Desiccant canisters add two-year shelf life for dental retraction cords.

May 31, 2002

Closures

Wine's single-serve PET bottle serves new venues

In late April 2002, Canandaigua Wine introduced nationwide 375-ml PET bottles of Arbor Mist wine in four fruit flavors.

May 31, 2002

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

Distributors remain big factor in purchases (sidebar)

Are distributors valued?

May 31, 2002

Tamper-evident machinery

New TE seals at Interpharm

Pharmaceutical manufacturer adds greater TE reliability by switching to induction-sealed foil liners in place of pressure-sensitive foam liners.

May 31, 2002