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Sustainability

Sony uses corn-based resin for blisters

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: Sony Pacific debuted a blister package for a portable radio that incorporates the corn-based resin NatureWorks™ PLA from Cargill Dow LLC (Minnetonka, MN).

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Flexible packaging

X-ray inspection

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: Dylog U.S.A. (Winter Park, FL) offers X-ray inspection equipment. Its Dyxim Series detects contaminants inside a variety of containers.

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Secondary Packaging

Case packer for stand-up pouches

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: The Pec Pack Line enables end users to case pack stand-up pouches efficiently. The line begins with an extended-range Econoform tray former from Econocorp (Randolph, MA).

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Flexible packaging

Bag and pouch filler/sealer

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: The Bartelt® intermittent-motion fill-and-seal machine transfers premade bags or pouches from a magazine feeder; places them within leading and trailing clamps; then opens, fills, and seals them.

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Award-winning thermoform

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: Less than a year ago, Andex Industries (Escanaba, MI) designed a thermoformed package for American Visionwear’s line of range finders for hunters.

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Closures

Glue bottle ingeniously dispenses convenience

The detail that went into the bottle for Loctite Professional Wood Worx glue is like that for a well-crafted piece of furniture.

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Closures

Have a drink with Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer Lite Half & Half is a new beverage that’s not just for thirsty golfers.

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Closures

Gatorade's All-Stars don PET

In July, The Gatorade Company launched a line of hot-filled 12-oz Gatorade All-Stars beverages for “tweens” (kids between 8 and 12) in injection/stretch-blow-molded PET bottles from Amcor PET Packaging (Manchester, MI).

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Closures

Crave packaging is revealing

A 2.5-oz plastic spray bottle mounted inside a see-through plastic “carton” distinguishes the packaging for Crave fragrance from Calvin Klein Cosmetics, a New York, NY, div.

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Closures

Dasani does the twist

Most beverage bottles with sports caps open by pulling up on the cap, and they’re closed by pushing the spout back down. But a new 24-oz PET bottle of Coca-Cola’s Dasani-brand water uses a unique overcap/spout combination that twists open.

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Nite Ize sees card printing economics

To achieve color printing on both the front and back of its blister cards, Nite Ize Inc., a Boulder, CO-based manufacturer of outdoors equipment, turned to CardPak (Solon, OH).

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Flexible packaging

Vf/f/s pouch system donated to Clemson

Clemson University students are receiving first-hand experience with pouch packaging thanks to the donation of a Model 2050 vertical form/fill/seal system from Cryovac (Duncan, SC), a subsidiary of Sealed Air Corp.

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