Flexible packaging

Unit-dose packaging for the garden

Consumers crave convenience, so this lawn and garden products manufacturer serves it up: single-dose pouches of home insecticides.

October 31, 1997

Materials: Page 788

Sustainability

USDA/FDA wrap new demands around meat, poultry packaging

No longer will food companies accept self-certification from vendors. In fact, some new packaging has already been pulled from the market.

October 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Seagram salutes the end of tweaking

Seagram combines two bottling lines into one medium-speed line for a broad variety of spirits in glass bottles. Quick-change parts for cleaning, filling, capping and conveying equipment reduce downtime and labor costs.

October 31, 1997

Containers

Management pay a worthy goal

Managers in packaging and manufacturing departments are packing away the highest salaries among packaging professionals. Packaging World's exclusive survey shows they're also very satisfied with their jobs.

October 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Metal pails

A full line of metal pails from Leaktite (Leominster, MA) is now available. The pails are fabricated from steel and feature riveted ears for added strength, wire handles that can stand up and sealed lock-seamed construction.

October 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Flip-top bottle

A 32-oz flip-top bottle is available from E.Z. Cap (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Specially designed for the micro-brewer and brew pubs for carry-out packaging, the bottle is said to be resealable, reusable and recyclable.

October 31, 1997

Converting equipment

Heat resistance leads to refillable PEN

Having learned valuable lessons from a returnable PEN bottle used by a sister company in Uruguay, Coca-Cola Germany introduces a new container made of homopolymer PEN.

October 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Shaped 'can' rewrites packaging line rules

Several unorthodoxies on the filling line make it possible for this soft, squeezable, straight-walled polypropylene container to resist paneling after hot-filling. Also new is a first-of-its-kind on-line shrink label application in a bottling plant.

October 31, 1997

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Britvic banks on being different

This UK beverage marketer was a pioneer in aseptically filled PET bottles. Other ambitious packages include matte-black coated glass for on-premise sales and black PET bottles in four sizes.

October 31, 1997

Flexible packaging

BrainForest stands out at Pack Expo West

Sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, Pack Expo West 97 drew 12겞 visitors to Las Vegas last month, up from 9걽 at the inaugural Pack Expo West in '95.

October 31, 1997

Closures

Irradiation update

Buried in FDA reform legislation that is working its way through Congress is a provision that would limit the size of label disclosures about irradiation to a type size no bigger than that used in the list of ingredients.

October 31, 1997

Flexibles

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers (Wilmington, DE): Sandra Van Wormer, business mgr., Clysar shrink films; Stacey Burr, Clysar North American sales mgr.

October 31, 1997

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Supplier news: International agreements

Alloyd Co., Inc. (DeKalb, IL) has acquired Atlantic Thermoform Corp. (Juncos, P.R.).

October 31, 1997