Converting equipment

Pace picks barrier bottle for picante sauce

In July Campbell Soup's Pace Foods, San Antonio, TX, rolled out its picante sauce in a proprietary 20-oz squeezable plastic barrier bottle.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

New look brings a boom in sales

New labels on 750-mL glass bottles of six varietals from Delicato Family Vineyards have brought a significant increase in sales for the Novato, CA, wine maker.

August 31, 1998

Closures

Paper/foil cans for bath bubblers

An oval paper/foil can with seamed-on, tin-plate steel at top and bottom gives Remede Ltd. a novel look for its Bliss brand bath bubblers.

August 31, 1998

Labels

Shamrock sues Dean over milk jug shape

Phoenix-based Shamrock Foods Co. has filed a "declaratory judgment action" in federal court in Phoenix, AZ. It seeks a ruling that the packaging for its Shamrock Farms "mmmmilk(TM)" single-serve milk products does not violate any trademark or trade dress rights that Dean Foods Co.

August 31, 1998

Flexibles

Ball Park 'singles' in a winner

Ball Park Singles® are hitting supermarket shelves nationwide this month in what is believed to be the first-ever package containing individually wrapped hot dogs.

August 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Brown Machine: Thermoformer

The CT-800 Trim-In-Place thermoformer from the Brown Machine Div. of John Brown Plastics Machinery (Beaverton, MI) uses an articulating mold to improve part ejection and stacking.

July 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Tube filler/closer

Modular King Packaging Systems (Pine Brook, NJ) has introduced the Kugler K30-7 tube filler and closer. Designed with accuracy and repeatability in mind, it bottom-up fills laminate or metal tubes at speeds to 60/min.

July 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Cloud Packaging Equipment: Pouching system

FlexWorks(TM) is a high-speed, continuous-motion pouching system from Cloud Corp. (Des Plaines, IL). It handles most heat-sealable laminates and coextru-sions, including biaxially oriented nylons, polyesters and structured PPs, foils, cellophanes and paper.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motor brochure

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) has released a color brochure describing its Baldor SmartMotor® family, which includes industrial AC motors with adjustable speed control electronics.

July 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Tray packer shrinks changeover time

Tray packing/shrink wrapping line for canned vegetables provides 55-tray/min speeds along with fast, no-tool changeover for Furman Foods.

July 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Elsner Eng. Works: Rewinding/overwrapping line

Elsner Eng. Works (Hanover, PA) has redesigned its HS-800/OWH-800 rewinding and overwrapping production line. Designed for gift wrap, tissue, kraft paper and selected films, the rewinder can be used for core, coreless or sheet-stiffened rewinding.

July 31, 1998

Flexibles

Kraft Foods 'hedges' for cost consistency

Food processor broadens cost-control strategy from ingredients into packaging materials thanks to new 'intermediaries.' Commodity-type contracts provide insurance against material price run-ups.

July 31, 1998

Flexibles

Packaging suppliers in headlights of MACT truck (sidebar)

OSHA complicates EPA compliance

July 31, 1998