Conveying & accumulation

Baldor Electric Company: Digital DC controllers

Baldor Electric’s (Fort Smith, AR) new Series 29 one-way digital DC SCR motor controls are from 5 hp through 300 hp, 198-550 VAC, 3-phase 50/60 hz.

September 30, 2002

Materials: Page 667

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Fresh start for blister packs

Meanwhile, S.C. Johnson introduced air freshener Glade Press’n Fresh in a new blister package that hit retail shelves nationwide in March.

September 30, 2002

Flexibles

Low-temp shrink film

Syfan USA (Cooper City, FL) has introduced Sytec® MVP, a cross-linked polyolefin shrink film engineered to shrink quickly and gently at low temperatures.

September 30, 2002

Labels

Marketing milk in aluminum cans

From now through early next year, consumers in selected Florida test markets will be able to purchase shelf-stable chocolate milk in a two-piece aluminum can.

September 30, 2002

Closures

Top Oil out to 'end' counterfeiting

San Francisco-based Top Oil Products Co. is waging war against counterfeiting of its premium synthetic motor oils in Indonesia. It’s weapons: top and bottom aluminum closures.

September 30, 2002

Adhesives/tape

P-S tape shipments

Technical and specialty tapes are expected to help U.S. shipments of pressure-sensitive tape to reach $5.7 billion by 2006.

September 30, 2002

Closures

Multipack 'can' rolls into stores

Spotted at the National Hardware Show held in Chicago in August, a new reclosable polyvinyl chloride canister shows off a variety of four or five different-colored rolls of Duck tape brand cloth tape from Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Avon, OH.

September 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

P&G, Wal-Mart on CorrExpo program

When merchandising executives from top retailers speak, packaging people tend to listen.

September 30, 2002

Labels

Michelob's teardrop bottle to be replaced

After testing on specialty Michelob brands, a new slope-shouldered longneck bottle will be introduced for Anheuser-Busch’s super-premium Michelob and Michelob Light beers.

September 30, 2002

Flexibles

Fruit snacks in 'hearty' cups

New Choice Foods, Irwindale, CA, is marketing fruit snacks in heart-shaped cups thermoformed of polypropylene. Packaged in Taiwan, Squez’N’ Bites have been introduced to the United States in 10.5-oz bags that contain 10 cups and retail for $1.19.

September 30, 2002

Additives, coatings & inks

Q&A: The man with X-ray vision

Wayne Knigge is a consultant who retired in June 2001 after 36 years as senior staff engineer with General Mills. He spent the last 20 years on quality/productivity improvements in packaging, the last three focusing on X-ray inspection.

September 30, 2002

Labels

Elegant new design

William Grant & Sons, U.S. importer of the Italian Tiziano wines, turned to Bailey Design Group (Plymouth Meeting, PA) to create a label for the new Tiziano Chianti Riserva.

September 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

People

TricorBraun (St. Louis, MO) hired Mark Polivka as the vp of supply chain management.

September 30, 2002