Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blistering the CPSC

Unit-dose packagers complain that the Consumer Product Safety Commission actually inhibits the use of safer child-resistant drug packaging.

April 30, 2003

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Sustainability

Recent enviro-packaging developments

This is a list of recent commercial developments in environmental packaging. This is expanded listing that contains items not published in the print magazine.

April 30, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Snap-on tube

CCL Plastic Packaging (Los Angeles, CA) offers the Orientor Snap-On tube, which is designed so that graphics on the tube front are aligned with the lift-tab on the closure.

April 30, 2003

Flexibles

What packagers think about the environment

Respondents to a recent survey on Packworld.com were asked to describe the current attitude at their company with regard to packaging and the environment.

April 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

ARI: Shrink wrapper for contract packager

At Advertising Resources, workers load cartoned product onto a flighted infeed conveyor, two cartons per flight in this instance. Cartons are conveyed downstream into polyvinyl chloride film.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Universal Labeling Systems: Specialized label sensor permits fast setup on new labeler designed f

Designed for ease of use and quick changeover, the CP1000 labeling system from Universal Labeling Systems (St. Petersburg, FL) is equipped with the Label-Eye photoelectric sensor from Tri-Tronics (Tampa, FL), which contributes to fast setup.

March 31, 2003

Labels

Bar codes on shrink sleeves

Seal-It manufacturers and prints shrink sleeves with bar codes for various manufacturers. Shrink sleeves made of heat-shrink PVC, PETG, and OPS help combine safety and marketing for retailers, company says.

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Gen3 performance moves downstream

Generation3 performance is no longer the sole domain of high end packaging machinery.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Latvian sauces get new tops

Spilva, Riga, Latvia, has increased sales of its popular sauces and salad dressings since it switched to distinctive bright red 38-mm medium-twist-button steel closures from Closures Europe, a Paris subsidiary of Crown Holdings, parent of Crown Cork & Seal (Philadelphia, PA).

March 31, 2003

Containers

M&M Industries receives award

M&M Industries (Chattanooga, TN) received an Excellent Supplier Award from PPG Industries for 2002. M&M, which supplies child-resistant PE pails to PPG chloralkali and derivatives operations in the United States, is among 7 companies being honored by the manufacturer of coatings, fiber glass, glass, and chemicals.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SATO partners with CCL Label

SATO America (Charlotte, NC) partnered with CCL Label (Rosemont, IL) whereby CCL with manufacture all RFID tags and labels for SATO America, as well as resell SATO RFID-enabled printers.

March 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

All About Packaging adds thermoformers

All About Packaging (Appleton, WI) added 2 thermoformers and 2 slide blister flanging machines to its other package manufacturing machinery. Company can provide short lead times, and take a project from concept to finished package.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Cap and closure demand to climb

According to Cleveland-based The Freedonia Group, demand for caps and closures in the United States will climb by more than 5% per year to nearly $6 billion in 2007.

March 31, 2003