Filling/capping, dry

Bulk weigher/auger filler

AMS Filling Systems' (Malvern, PA) Model A-110-Lynx net weigher bulk-and-dribble auger filler fills powders and granular products as well as thin or viscous liquids, in weights from 1 oz to several hundred lb.

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Closures

Tubes of the year!

This year's winners of the Tube Council Awards carried a strong health and beauty theme, as well as a focus on innovation.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Federal 'medicine' for drug errors may be hard to swallow

Agencies are now considering requirements for unit-dose packaging and bar coding of containers to reduce the potential for medication errors.

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Closures

Cosmetics are big winners in packaging competition (sidebar)

Additional NACD award winners: Household Chemicals

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Conveying & accumulation

Keebler becomes a canister convert

When consumers showed how much they liked resealable composite canisters for Animal Crackers, Keebler responded by launching other products in that package format.

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Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Russell-Stanley (Red Bank, NJ) will open a combination plastic drum blow-molding/recycling plant in Allentown, PA.

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Secondary Packaging

Food innovations on display at U.K. show

Two notable packages uncovered at Pakex 98, held recently in Birmingham, England, both come from food marketers. One is for soup, the other for a product designed to look like Chinese take-out food.

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Containers

Hazmat shipper

As an alternative to steel or fiberboard drums in lab pack and hazardous material applications, Con-Quest Products (Elk Grove Village, IL) has introduced CoPack(TM) LP.

March 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Water bottling line completed by farmer

To bottle its spring water in volume, Wisconsin farmer uses creativity to complete an automated bottling line. Homemade feeders and some change parts help keep total costs low.

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Flexibles

Recycling on the web

There are now several sites cropping up on the web where packagers and package manufacturers alike can either source or recycle scrap packaging materials.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Digital-on-demand printing opens new markets for converter

Two six-color digital offset presses drive Watson Label Products into the packaging market. Machines specialize in short-run production of flexibles used primarily for prototyping and promotional purposes.

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Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) has opened an IBC sales and distribution office in Melbourne, Australia, called Hoover I.B.C.

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Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Tubed Products, Inc. (Easthampton, MA) has begun construction on a 92ꯠ sq' manufacturing and office facility in Oxnard, CA.

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