Additives, coatings & inks

Octagonal bulk container

Easy8(TM) is a patented new heavy-duty bulk corrugated container that sets up in about four seconds, says manufacturer Georgia-Pacific (Atlanta, GA).

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Flexibles

Heat-resistant resin

Capron® PA 6 and PA 6.6 homopolymer resins from AlliedSignal Plastics (Morristown, NJ) are heat-resistant and have a high barrier against oxygen, flavor and aroma permeation.

July 31, 1996

Flexibles

Photodegradable additive

Willow Ridge Plastics (Erlanger, KY) has developed UV-H(TM), a photodegradable masterbatch additive for plastics requiring degradation by sunlight.

July 31, 1996

Labels

Components

Omron Electronics (Schaumburg, IL) has unveiled a new 8-page brochure: "Solutions for Food & Beverage Packaging, Food Processing and Flexible Packaging." It describes how individual components such as sensors, process controllers, PLCs, timers and counters, operator interfaces, RFID and machine vision systems can work together with existing automation to provide total automation solutions.

July 31, 1996

Containers

Bagmaking

CMD Corp. (Appleton, WI) introduces Model 6052 Drawtape Module for the production of drawtape plastic bags. Includes four driven ribbon unwinds for various ribbon spools, reliable tube slitting, servo-driven rotary thumb and hem vent cutting unit.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Medical pouch sealers

Sencorp Systems' (Hyannis, MA) new line of hot-bar laboratory sealers were designed specifically to address concerns with medical packaging. Both Series 12-AS/2 and AS/3 are designed with external calibration ports to facilitate calibration of temperature, pressure and dwell time while the machine is in production.

July 31, 1996

Containers

Supplier news: Achievements

ISO 9002 registration: Gulf State Paper Corp. (Tuscaloosa, AL); Jefferson Smurfit Corp's (St. Louis, MO) Hendersonville, NC, paper tube plant, and New Hartford, NY, container plant.

July 31, 1996

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

New press focuses on flexibility

Converter Graphic Packaging's Franklin, OH, plant is the first in the U.S. to use a new press that can print flexible packaging by gravure and flexography, and dry-bond laminate and apply cold-seal or hot melt wax-coat in-line. Kroger's coffee bags represent the first commercial application.

July 31, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Premier Plastics grows PET bottle business

California blow molder is among the first in the U.S. to use a 24-cavity injection/stretch blow-molding machine that increases 1/2-liter PET bottle output by at least 40 million per year.

July 31, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Chevron Chemical (Houston, TX): Ed J. Ueckert, national sales mgr., PE Molding Resins.

July 31, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

NOVA Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) plans to purchase ARCO Chemical's (Newtown Square, PA) plastics business, including DYLITE® EPS and DYLARK® engineering resins product lines.

July 31, 1996

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Delivery system for coding/marking

Algene's (Garfield, NJ) TR 9632 delivery system can be fitted onto most manufacturers' ink-jet printers and labelers, says the company. It uses an automatic feed hopper and a registration mechanism to provide accurate feeding of flat objects such as blister cards and folding cartons, at speeds to 120 pieces/min.

July 31, 1996

Converting equipment

Modular molds add flexibility to bottle molding

Unique system makes it easier for packagers to have custom bottles injection/ blow molded even when the number of bottles needed is relatively low.

July 31, 1996