Flexible packaging

Servos and robotics solve pouch-packing challenge

Stand-up pouches in three different sizes are automatically case packed at speeds to 90/min by this 12-axis, servo-controlled, robotic case packing system.

May 31, 2005

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Filling and retorting (sidebar)

Upstream from the robotic case packing and palletizing operation at Fresenius, pouches are filled and sent through a retort operation. As might be expected, the systems involved are every bit as sophisticated as those responsible for secondary packaging.

May 31, 2005

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The wrap-up: Soup for you!

Al Yeganeh, the inspiration for “Seinfeld’s” “The Soup Nazi” episode, has created his own line of soups to be sold in grocery stores across the nation.

May 31, 2005

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Packaging trends from FMI

Convenience, portability, shaped bottles, and combination products were all the rage at May’s Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago.

May 31, 2005

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Onions take to thermoforms

For both foodservice and retail channels, Gills Onions is now offering rigid packaging as an alternative to flexible film bags.

April 30, 2005

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Retort pouches convey freshness in mushrooms

Grupo Ayecue, a manufacturer and marketer of mushrooms in Spain, has a reputation in Europe as a pioneering research and development company.

April 30, 2005

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Domino sweetens sugar packaging

Sugar is the latest product to turn to a handled high-density polyethylene container.

April 30, 2005

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6 Tactics That Make Contract Packaging Work

The right answers to key questions reduce the risk of surprises when contract packaging appears to be the right option

March 31, 2005

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From interpack 2005!

A glimpse at some of the innovative new packaging machines introduced at the interpack show in Dusseldorf, Germany this week.

March 31, 2005

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Inspiring design

A new line of unisex face, body, and hair care products called VIA.gg.IO (www.via-gg-io.com) has been released in a practical slim-line kit.

March 31, 2005

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Clarification

On page 47 of Packaging World’s March coverage of the Flexible Packaging Association’s awards competition, the wrong image appeared with the description of the Autopak® Sterilization Pouch.

March 31, 2005

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Supplier turns packager

Süd-Chemie Performance Packaging northwest territory manager Tod Campbell is also consumer products manager for the desiccant supplier’s entry into retail packaging.

March 31, 2005

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On paper, a world of opportunity

The consensus view is paperboard is hardly old-fashioned. But both consumers and retailers believe it can do far more to intensify the visual theater, clarify the price-value relationship with the product, and improve security.

March 31, 2005