Protective/transport packaging

Bag-in-box success is sweet

Chocolate syrup manufacturer Mont Blanc Chocolatier adapts bag-in-box technology for use in coffeehouses and restaurants. Extended shelf life and shelf stability are said to be industry firsts.

June 30, 1998

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Protective/transport packaging

Protective packaging

Difficult-to-manage long and narrow products may be protected during shipping by Riveted Uchannel(TM). This packaging system from Laminations (Neenah, WI) is made from two laminated recycled paperboard edge protectors riveted together to form a U-shaped channel.

May 31, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

PET egg 'carton' is a tri-fold

Rarely can a food marketer afford to switch to new packaging costing 20¢/unit when the packaging being replaced costs 8¢. But that's exactly what Egg Innovations of Port Washington, WI, did last summer when it replaced molded pulp egg cartons with clear tri-fold containers thermoformed of polyethylene terephthalate.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Corru-Shred, Inc: Corrugated shredder

The Model C16D Corru-Shredder from Corru-Shred (Pompano Beach, FL) is a system that takes knocked-down corrugated and shreds it into material suitable for use as loose fill.

April 30, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Paperboard cushioning computes for LEK

Computer maker safeguards shipments with paperboard cushioning that nearly eliminates product damage and saves more than $20ꯠ/yr in breakage, labor and shipping costs.

April 30, 1998

Flexibles

Using extranets for better materials management

Seeing potential in the Web for more than just distributing "brochureware," some companies in the packaging community have begun to use Web-based "extranets" to streamline the supplier-customer work flow.

April 30, 1998

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.

April 30, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Protective packaging

Stanga Industries (Titusville, FL) is offering molded foam products for protective packaging using a product called Eperan. Beads are injected into a mold in a process similar to EPS, which causes them to form into a predetermined shape during expansion.

March 31, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Void-fill system

The Boxfill 3000 is a new machine from Boxfill (Maywood, NJ) that converts waste corrugated cases and scrap into lattice "blankets" that can be used as cushioning material.

March 31, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Protective packaging

Geoami is a 100% post-consumer recycled paper cushioning material that acts as protective wrap or void fill for products during shipping. From Cardinal Container (Schaumburg, IL), this material is composed of a web of hexagonal, angled cells said to deflect shock from goods.

February 28, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Protective packaging

The Eco-Air (Palo Alto, CA) Fold Pack(TM) is a protective package constructed of 98% corrugated that eliminates the need for an exterior carton. The Fold Pack has shaped, scored sections-already attached to the platform during the die cut-that can be folded into a triangular or rectangular shape.

January 31, 1998

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Porous molding material

Metapor is a micro-porous aluminum for thermoformers from International Mold Steel (Florence, KY). The material is air-permeable and is said to eliminate venting problems in thermoforming, blister packaging and film processing.

January 31, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Reusable PVC clamshells short-circuit waste for Lucent

Telecommunications component supplier slashes materials and labor costs by shifting to vinyl clamshell packs for printed circuit boards. Now Lucent asks some customers to return them for reuse.

January 31, 1998