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Dual-ovenable HMRs use logo

The new VersaTray™ identifying logo used by purveyors of HMRs emphasizes the CPET tray's dual-ovenable nature.

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Lyle Industries, Inc: Thermoforming equipment

Lyle Industries (Beaverton, MI) and Gabler Maschinenbau (Lübeck, Germany) will introduce new thermoforming equipment. Lyle’s new servo-driven, high-speed vertical bottle trimmer includes dual-lane shuttle platens and servo-driven indexing and separator screws.

May 31, 2000

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

Flex America Inc: Flex America Inc: Labeler for vf/f/s machines

Designed for integration with Ishida Apex vf/f/s equipment, the Flex-Pac labeler from EPI (New Freedom, PA) applies p-s labels—including coupon, multi-ply and reclosable styles—to fronts or backs of packages.

May 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Triangle Package Machinery Co.: Tray weigher/filler

The servo-driven X-Y Depositech scale/filler from Triangle (Chicago, IL) weighs and deposits up to 140 discharges/min into thermoformed trays. Used largely in packing food products, the machine combines weighments of up to 8 ingredients, and 250 recipes can be stored in memory.

May 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Klockner Medipak: Robotic blister packager

Klöckner Medipak (Clearwater, FL) distributes the Fleximation Trialpack unit-dose blister packaging system with a robotic filling mechanism. The robot fills at speeds to 54 blisters/min using an integrated vision system and vacuum grippers.

May 31, 2000

Containers

No plain Jane

The Jane Cosmetics Division of Estée Lauder, New York, NY, called on Sterling Group (New York, NY) to design a line of skin care products for teens.

May 31, 2000

Closures

Right as rain

To communicate Rain Vodka’s natural organic grain and premium quality, Spar Inc. (New Orleans, LA) redesigned the spirit’s bottle to resemble a clear, pure raindrop.

May 31, 2000

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

International agreements

Elopak (New Hudson, MI) has announced a joint venture with iplas (Cologne, Germany) and alfill (Hamburg, Germany) to complete and commercialize a plasma barrier coating system for plastic bottles.

May 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Pentel packs pens using UV

A recent switch from radio-frequency sealing of clear, two-piece, polyvinyl chloride blisters to ultra-violet sealing has brought badly needed flexibility to Pentel of America, a Torrance, CA, maker of pens.

May 31, 2000

Flexibles

Gerber tests plastic

Spotted recently in Cedar Rapids, IA, were plastic containers of Gerber® baby food in three sizes: 2 oz, 3 ?

May 31, 2000

Flexibles

Design of the times

Editors are often asked, “What kinds of applications really get you interested in a story?” Usually, this is the preamble to a sales pitch for a story on the application du jour.

May 31, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Filler relies on networked PCs

At Catania-Spagna, a 12-head rotary liquid filler controlled by PCs linked via Arcnet and Ethernet communications protocols allows real-time data acquisition and analysis.

May 31, 2000

Flexibles

Baxter Labs helps develop validatable pouch sealers (sidebar)

Materials also a variable

May 31, 2000