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Conveying & accumulation

Custom-designed conveyor ambidexterity

Toll Packaging Group, Gibson City, IL, is a contract packer that provides services for manufacturers of a variety of food products for both humans and pets.

June 1, 2008

Closures

Convenient closure tops Red Knot Wines

Zork screw-cap closure 'pops' like a cork when opened and is easily reinserted.

May 31, 2008

Labels

ConAgra 'pyramid scheme' promotes nutrition

Graphics based on the USDA’s MyPyramid system to appear on ConAgra food packages in May.

May 31, 2008

Flexibles

Novel beverage vending concept

From interpack: What if a vending machine could hold some 1,500 roll-fed pouches and fill beverage products from concentrate?

May 31, 2008

Flexibles

Bottle's sidewall made of film

A 300-mL bottle made largely of flexible film has a carbon footprint 50% less than the PET bottle it replaces for Belgium's WCUP.

May 31, 2008

Sustainability

Packages earn NACD awards recognition

NACD Packages of the Year honored this month highlight innovation, sustainability.

May 31, 2008

Additives, coatings & inks

CSPI: 'Alcospeed' beverages unsafe in any package

The Center for Science in the Public Interest targets alcoholic energy drinks and their packaging.

May 31, 2008

Labels

Tanning line saturated in 360º color

Bottles' full-body PETG shrink-sleeve labels provide eye appeal.

May 27, 2008

Cartoning

Round 2: more interpack machinery video

In this edition, exclusive video shot live at interpack includes robotic rainbow tray packer, a true rotary gravimetric filler, servo-changeover case packer, ingenious new candy cartons…and more

May 16, 2008

Closures

Zip-Pak

New Web site is designed to serve as a global resource for innovations and trends in resealable packaging.

May 13, 2008

Closures

O.Berk Co.

Site is now reopened with no shipping and handling fees for continental U.S. orders.

May 13, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Long-read RFID hard tag

Metalcraft has announced pricing and availability of its new RFID Hard Tag, designed to deliver longer read range at lower cost for asset tracking applications that require resistance to heavy impact or submersion in water.

May 13, 2008