Flexibles

Tropicana introduces Golden Carafe

Said to be the first true carafe molded of PET, Tropicana's new 1.75-L container for Pure Premium orange juice began shipping to stores early in May. With a 63-mm, wide-mouth opening, the carafe is blow-molded by Graham Packaging.

May 31, 2003

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Containers

Shaped aseptic cartons

SIG Combibloc’s “combishape” aseptic beverage cartons can be produced in customized shapes for product differentiation. Carton consists of different components from which the final shape is created in the customer’s filling machine.

May 31, 2003

Flexibles

Foil laminate bags and drum liners

Rexam introduces new low-density polyethylene and foil laminate bags and drum liners manufactured in a cGMP-compliant environment for use in packaging bulk drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients.

April 30, 2003

Containers

Ampersand receives award

Ampersand Label is the winner of the 2002 Most Innovative Component of the Year award from the Tube Council.

April 30, 2003

Containers

Bulk humidity absorber

Süd-Chemie Performance Packaging (Belen, NM) introduces Dri-It™ humidity absorber bags to protect self-storage units from the damaging effects of water and condensation.

April 30, 2003

Closures

Plastic #10 'can' is resealable

Heinz Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, introduced in late ’01 a plastic play on the #10 steel can. The custom six-layer plastic version is coextrusion blow-molded by Graham Packaging (www.grahampackaging.com) using polypropylene and an ethylene vinyl alcohol barrier layer.

April 30, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Companies

Morrison Timing Screw (Glenwood, IL) modernized its 15-year-old logo.

April 30, 2003

Protective/transport packaging

Container a clear success

Blueberry farm turns to new container to help six high-speed production/packaging lines run more smoothly.

April 30, 2003

Containers

Aveda pushes PCR

As part of its environmental commitment, Aveda achieves 80% to 100% post-consumer-recycled (PCR) content in much of its packaging.

April 30, 2003

Flexibles

Twin-tube packs 'Corner' yogurt innovation

Müller UK leverages its successful split pot yogurt and fruit in cups with a fresh package: twin-tube packs that are produced on first-of-its-kind vf/f/s machinery.

April 30, 2003

Sustainability

Recent enviro-packaging developments

This is a list of recent commercial developments in environmental packaging. This is expanded listing that contains items not published in the print magazine.

April 30, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Snap-on tube

CCL Plastic Packaging (Los Angeles, CA) offers the Orientor Snap-On tube, which is designed so that graphics on the tube front are aligned with the lift-tab on the closure.

April 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

ARI: Shrink wrapper for contract packager

At Advertising Resources, workers load cartoned product onto a flighted infeed conveyor, two cartons per flight in this instance. Cartons are conveyed downstream into polyvinyl chloride film.

March 31, 2003