Flexible packaging

Flexible packaging reigns

Flexible packages predominate in this year’s DuPont Awards competition. Innovation in biodegradable packaging and convenience also shine.

July 31, 2002

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Protective/transport packaging

HP reduces packaging

A redesign at Hewlett-Packard cuts packaging components in half.

July 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Depalletizing bulk bottles

Bulk bottles for water are automatically depalletized by a Priority One Packaging Machinery (www.prioritypackaging.com) Pro-Pal bulk bottle depalletizer at the front end of the PET line.

June 30, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

North Side: Weighing and filling of frozen beef patties

Bag filling begins at the Ohlson four-head bulk-and-dribble scale, which has frozen patties conveyed to it directly from a spiral freezer.

June 30, 2002

Flexible packaging

Inline bagging

Web Exclusive: Running PE tube stock, Clamco (Cleveland, OH) says its Magnum Force automatic bagging system saves up to 40% of the material costs compared to machines that fill and seal premade bags from a roll.

June 30, 2002

Closures

Closure liner literature

A pocket-sized 6-panel folder from Tri-Seal (Blauvelt, NY) provides the latest information on the company’s backings, facings, and seals for cap manufacturers and consumer products companies that package their products in plastic and glass bottles.

June 30, 2002

Converting equipment

Heinz, Hunt's turn ketchup upside-down

Makers of Hunt’s and Heinz ketchup hope consumers will flip for new ketchup offerings that stand on their closures.

June 30, 2002

Flexible packaging

Pharmaceutical packaging to grow

Demand for pharmaceutical packaging products in the United States will rise 4.3% annually.

June 30, 2002

Closures

Everything but the brush!

Sherwin-Williams’ Dutch Boy Dirt Fighter paints are debuting in an extravagant four-piece square plastic container.

June 30, 2002

Closures

Beverages flow boldly into aluminum bottles

The path to product differentiation for two new beverages is a metallic one.

June 30, 2002

Flexibles

IPER's 'natural' trays, lidding

Italian supermarket chain will sell fresh food in thermoformed containers and heat-sealable film lidding.

June 30, 2002

Flexibles

Flexibles forecast to grow to $21.2 billion

The Flexible Packaging Assn.’s State of the Industry Report 2002 forecasts shipments of flexible packaging.

June 30, 2002

Flexibles

B-I-B brings big benefits

A switch from 5-gal plastic pails to bag-in-box packaging has greatly reduced the number of failed packages.

June 30, 2002