Materials: Page 569

Controls & Machine Components

Danfoss Drives: Variable frequency drives

Danfoss has introduced a new, high-power platform for VLT® 5000 Series variable-frequency drives, extending the product range and providing increased flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and reliability.

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Additives, coatings & inks

Tube product line

Greiner Bio-One offers a new versatile tube product line in a variety of resins and sizes. The polystyrene and polycarbonate offer ideal clarity for optical measurements, while polyethylene and polypropylene display superior thermal and chemical resistance with minimal binding characteristics.

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Containers

Laminated tube for cosmetics

IntraPac offers a new size of plastic laminated tubes for health, beauty, and personal care applications. Tube is 2” in diameter and can be decorated in a variety of techniques: 4-color process printing, spot color printing, and hot-stamp foil.

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Closures

Bore seal cap

United Caps (formerly PROCAP) introduces its 28mm bore seal cap for standard BPF and PCO neck finishes. Closure is designed for use with carbonated soft drinks, still and sparkling water, and isotonic sports drinks.

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Flexibles

Beer bottles get glow-in-dark label glam

Global brewer SABMiller plc is using glow-in-the-dark, pressure-sensitive clear film labels from Spear for a special promotion of Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) beers.

August 31, 2005

Closures

Commemorative design revs up motor oil packaging

When motor sports vehicle manufacturer Polaris Industries, Inc., Medina, MN, and its motor oil manufacturer and packager Lubrication Technologies, Inc.

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Containers

WD-40 develops the last straw

WD-40 Co., San Diego, CA, delivers a revamped 12-oz can with a permanently attached, built-in straw tube.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Bulk filler improves cookie packaging

David’s Cookies, Fairfield, NJ, is a major supplier of frozen, preformed, unbaked cookies to a range of foodservice customers. Until late 2004, the company had been manually packing its frozen-dough cookies into 20-lb bags in boxes for shipment.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Conical push-pull closure crowns new shampoo

When Laboratorios RTB in Spain was planning the launch of its new Giorgi Fix Out Shampoo, the company wanted a distinctive, innovative packaging look to enhance marketing of the new product.

August 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

CCI's Rx RFID lessons learned

Last month, Cesar Castillo Inc.(CCI) of San Juan, Puerto Rico, began using a radio-frequency identification system that marries item identification with storage location to address inventory errors and inefficiencies (to read the complete feature, see page 106).

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Companies

Kliklok-Woodman and CMD Corp.

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Labels

When insensitivity can spur development

One of the great indicators of our business heading into a new period of product development is when we continue to hear about insensitivity to higher prices for packaging materials.

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