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Flexibles

Multiwall bags

Dairy, food, and pharmaceutical packagers can keep products contamination-free and seal in product freshness with new SteraSeal™ multiwall bags.

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Cartoning

All-servo blister machine

Model B300 all-servo blister machine runs at speeds to 300 blister packs/min and has an integrated stacker and cartoner. Features rotary sealing, slitting, and die-cutting, which is said to significantly reduce tooling cost and delivery time compared to systems that are not rotary in nature.

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Flexibles

Flexible case packaging system

The FP500 flexible pouch case packaging system from Wepackit (Orangeville, Ontario, Canada) applies straightforward and easily managed technology to achieve dependability in any rigorous production environment.

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Closures

Golden State Vintners: Wine bottle inspection

Emerging from the filler enclosure, wine bottles are conveyed through a Heuft (Downers Grove, IL) detection unit that uses a combination of photocells and high-frequency signals to check for cork presence, cork breakage, and improper fill height.

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Affordable vf/f/s machine

Rovema displayed for the first time at PackExpo 2002 a new line of economical baggers. The intermittent-motion Model VPI-260 E is built for a heat seal execution for the production of pillow style bags.

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Custom filling at Merck

Whitehouse Station, NJ-based Merck & Co.’s custom manufactured filling line for the award-winning Ocular[r] Plus vial used for ophthalmic products is located at MSD, Mirabel, France. The equipment is from IMA in Bologna, Italy.

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Closures

Hardware Special Report (Web jump)

Multipack ‘can’ rolls into storesGlue bottle ingeniously dispenses convenienceReclosable holo bag stands out

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Closures

Banner Engineering Corp.: Machine-mountable sensor

Banner Engineering’s (Minneapolis, MN) IP67-rated FI22 inline fiber optic sensor, which operates without an enclosure, can be surface-mounted directly on machinery.

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Closures

Kraft's bye-bye to the can-opener?

Kraft Foods has substituted a peelable membrane closure for the conventional steel end on the top of some of its Maxwell House-brand ground coffees.

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Flexibles

Gillette tries a tear strip

Introduced this summer, Boston-based Gillette Co.'s resealable package for all disposable razors utilizes a pressure-sensitive tape reclosure system from Sealstrip (Boyertown, PA).

November 30, 2002

Flexibles

Pez juice launched in pouch

In the candy business, Pez in its refillable dispenser is a classic. Now Leading Brands, Inc., is marketing a Pez shelf-stable juice, in a 8.54-oz (250-mL) “no-spill” stand-up pouch topped with a collectible Pez character.

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Closures

Vial delivers eye-opening ingenuity

Arthur Lifshey, a senior fellow engineer with Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, NJ, is the inventive mind behind the patented Ocumeter® Plus, a high-density polyethylene vial for ophthalmic products.

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