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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Flexible packaging
Torpharm aims to lead in generic drugs
Apotex creates an entirely new division to pack generic drugs for the U.S. The new facility's first packaging line is a model of efficiency and sanitation.
March 31, 1998
Materials: Page 778
Additives, coatings & inks
New definition for 'buying in'
These days, manufacturers need a whole new dictionary to understand all the latest trends preached and proselytized by the gurus of management. "Asset redeployment" or "optimalization" have come to replace "downsizing" or "re-engineering" as terms that denote a plan (ideally) that usually shifts jobs or "labor" off the balance sheet.
March 31, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
A good year for wine labels
Reflecting a surge in the wine industry, wine labels take precedence at recent awards competitions.
March 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Water bottling line completed by farmer
To bottle its spring water in volume, Wisconsin farmer uses creativity to complete an automated bottling line. Homemade feeders and some change parts help keep total costs low.
March 31, 1998
Flexibles
Recycling on the web
There are now several sites cropping up on the web where packagers and package manufacturers alike can either source or recycle scrap packaging materials.
March 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Donnybrook over spring brooks (sidebar)
Putting the squeeze on fresh fruit juice
March 31, 1998
Flexible packaging
Tortilla packs always get a date
La Siesta Foods tested a new ink-jet coder designed for food processing plants. Better reliability, easy cleaning and operation, and improved portability cut downtime for tortilla bakery.
March 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Catching the rays (sidebar)
Old MacDonald never had this kind of farm
March 31, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Digital-on-demand printing opens new markets for converter
Two six-color digital offset presses drive Watson Label Products into the packaging market. Machines specialize in short-run production of flexibles used primarily for prototyping and promotional purposes.
March 31, 1998
Converting equipment
Is Bud ready for plastics?
Wondering what the world's biggest brewer thinks about plastic bottles for beer? Anheuser-Busch tipped its hand, ever so slightly, at a recent technical conference.
March 31, 1998
Contract packaging
Tapping into the power of the Eastern market
EastPack '98 returns to Philadelphia May 19 to 21, growing to over 125ꯠ sq' of packaging products and two specialty pavilions. IoPP's development conferences will also attract packaging professionals looking to learn.
March 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
New machines and materials fuel prepackaged fresh beef
An unusual foam tray, seven-layer coextruded lidding, a high-speed rotary backflushing/lidding machine, and weigh/price labeling let this Florida meat packer respond to supermarket demand for case-ready ground beef.
March 31, 1998
Containers
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) has opened an IBC sales and distribution office in Melbourne, Australia, called Hoover I.B.C.
March 31, 1998
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