Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Source tags provide measured security improvements

Stanley Tools houses a security label in a patented PVC capsule that clips onto the back of its tape rule package.

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Containers

Fomo tracks many happy returns

A tracking system better controls Fomo Products' fleet of returnable containers holding foam insulation chemicals. That helps the company save up to $60ꯠ/yr.

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Conveying & accumulation

Fire gives snack baker a clean slate

Fire claimed Pretzels, Inc.'s Indiana headquarters plant on Christmas Eve '97. By the following August, a new plant with a streamlined packaging room had risen from the ashes.

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Sustainability

More than just a pretty package (sidebar)

Additional winners include:

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Labeling

Change means quick changeover

In an effort to reduce storage of preprinted tubes, Henkel Home Improvements decided to label in-house. In addition to saving space and gaining flexibility, the company also enjoys quicker changeover.

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Containers

Bottle serves up a choice of scents

A unique "bottle-in-bottle" design and extensive outer packaging make this perfume a unique choice in an industry where the senses can be easily overloaded.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Accraply, Inc A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: P-s labeler

The automatic 350MW is Accraply's (Plymouth, MN) newest off-line stand-alone labeler, applying film or paper, oriented or non-oriented, partial- or full-wrap p-s labels to unfilled squeeze tubes.

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Controls & Machine Components

Nordson Corporation: Hot melt drum system

The new model 5507 Drum Melter from Nordson Corp. (Duluth, GA) offers rapid set-up, delivery and replenishment of drum-loaded PUR hot melts. The automatic startup and temperature control systems permit high-volume, on-demand gluing and bonding operations while protecting thermal- and moisture-curing properties of the adhesive.

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Flexibles

Candy package meets a tough deadline

Beverly Hills-based Taste of Nature was all set last spring to launch its new Cookie Dough Bites at Chicago's All Candy Expo in June. There was just one small problem: The company hadn't settled on a package.

March 31, 1999

Closures

Proposed irradiation labeling draws fire

Too little, too late was the reaction of the National Food Processors Assn. (NFPA) to FDA's advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) for irradiation labeling.

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Containers

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

As a result of a management buyout of Courtaulds Packaging Plastic Tubes North America (Woodstock, IL), the co.'s operations will continue as Thatcher Tubes LLC.

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Containers

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Tubed Products, Inc. (Easthampton, MA): Richard J. Nicholson, vp, sales and marketing.

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Sustainability

Cleaner and greener

Lexmark gains multiple benefits by replacing corrugated shippers with reusable plastic containers for laser printer parts shipped to Lexington for printer assembly.

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