Labels

New labeling, inspection gear at prize-winning water bottler

A switch to glue-applied roll-fed labeling and automatic fill-level inspection are the latest improvements at Mountain Valley Spring Co.

May 31, 2003

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Flexibles

NPE 2003: A passion for packaging

The latest advances in film extrusion, thermoforming, injection molding, and much more will be on display at the National Plastics Exposition June 23-27.

May 31, 2003

Containers

Campbell's latest plastic bowl

Campbell Soup Co. continues to develop new varieties of microwavable packages for its always popular soups.

May 31, 2003

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

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