Converting equipment

L'Oréal's bottle fishes for kids

Streamlined and decorated to resemble a fish, it's easy to imagine kids getting hooked on the new L'Oréal Kids squeezable bottle. Aimed at kids between the ages of 3 and 10, the bottle fits easily into small hands, it floats in the bathtub and it allows the sweet-smelling shampoo and conditioner aroma to emanate through the bottle itself.

May 31, 1997

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Flexibles

Easy-open feature applicator

Tearstrip's (Boyertown, PA) Peelwrap applicator applies Peelwrap pressure-sensitive material to shrink-wrapped packages to create a patented, easy-open feature.

May 31, 1997

Protective/transport packaging

Void fill machine

The Easy Pack 428S from Tomen America (Charlotte, NC) is a system that takes flattened corrugated and cuts it into a stretchable, foldable honeycomb-like piece of void-fill packaging.

May 31, 1997

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Auger filler

The Quad Servo 1000 multiple- lane auger filler from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) is designed to dispense small amounts of dry spices and seasonings into cups and thermoformed containers in mutiple lane configurations.

May 31, 1997

Containers

Plastic tubes

The newest generation of Teledyne Packaging's (Chester, PA) all-plastic laminate collapsible tubes are highlighted in a four-page four-color brochure.

May 31, 1997

Closures

Pharmaceutical components

Pharmaceutical and ophthalmologic packaging components produced by Resilam of Barcelona, Spain, are available through Empire Bottle (Buffalo, NY).

May 31, 1997

Flexibles

Label film

SqueezLabel from Ritrama Duramark (Minneapolis, MN) is a new label material designed to meet the demands of squeezable containers. The PE-based copolymer allows cross-directional flexibility.

May 31, 1997

Flexible packaging

Bag and pouch making

GN Packaging Equipment (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada): Medical pouch machines, GN26MP and GN36MP, produce pouches from webs to 26" and 36" widths, respectively.

May 31, 1997

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Machine vision system

Sharp Digital Information Products (Irvine, CA) has developed a new machine vision system that does color inspection and tracking at speeds to 2꼀 parts/min.

May 31, 1997

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Packaging foam

In response to recently established federal restrictions on the flammable content of foams, Sentinel Products (Hyannis, MA) has developed GH(TM)NE PE foam.

May 31, 1997

Containers

Plastic drum

Florida Drum (Harrisburg, NC) has added a 15-gal size to its line of plastic drums. The Delta Drum 15 is designed to replace users' DOT 34-marked 15-gal drums, which can no longer be used in shipping, says the company.

May 31, 1997

Flexibles

Electronics packaging

A translucent sheet of Eastman's PETG copolyester with a specially developed black electro-conductive coating is available from Lustro Plastics (Evanston, IL).

May 31, 1997

Flexibles

Web treatment, film making

Black Clawson (Fulton, NY): The company has received patents for both its barrier and low-shear mixing screw designs specially engineered for processing metallocene resins.

May 31, 1997