Closures

Closure market ripe for consolidation

In Caps and Closures: A mergers and acquisitions review, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray predicts that growth in the caps and closures market will exceed gross domestic product growth.

September 30, 2003

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Closures

Three wineries try 'twist-cork' closure

In August, three wineries began shipping quantities of their vintages in new bottles that are closed by the MetaCork from Gardner Technologies.

September 30, 2003

Closures

Zipper broadens ice bag's appeal

Arctic Glacier, a leader in the $2.5 billion North American packaged ice industry, was looking for a way to differentiate its Premium ice from other providers and increase retail sales. Management saw package reclosability as the answer.

September 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

lpha gear drives, Inc: Servo couplings

A full line of torque-limiting, bellows, and economyclass servo couplings are offered by alpha gear drives. The backlash-free couplings provide accuracy, torsional rigidity, and a low moment of inertia.

August 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Pneumatics brochure

A new 16-page color brochure from the pneumatics business unit of Bosch Rexroth Corp. covers a broad range of pneumatic products and includes contact information.

August 31, 2003

Closures

Portola acquires Tech Industries

Portola Packaging acquired Tech Industries, a manufacturer of plastic closures and containers for the personal care and cosmetics industries.

August 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

New 6-axis articulated robots

New articulated AR6 and AR8 robots provide additional degrees of freedom in robotic positioning. AR6 with a 650-millimeter working radius and AR8 with an 850-millimeter range can transport up to 5 kilograms of payload at high speeds with a repetitive precision of ± 0.02 millimeters.

August 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Spiral elevator conveyor

AmbaFlex International, a manufacturer of spiral elevator conveyors, offers the Spiralveyor that provides continuous vertical conveyance for high throughput.

August 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

360 packaging from Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation

Looking for big results? At Smurfit-Stone, we’ve learned you have to see the entire packaging picture.

August 31, 2003

Sustainability

IoPP selects AmeriStar winners

Packaging for a pharmaceutical product from Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals and a medical device from Exactech Inc. earned top awards in the Institute of Packaging Professionals’ 2003 AmeriStar competition.

August 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Elau donates technology

Elau, Inc. has donated more than $16ꯠ of its automation systems to the Center for Automation and Motion Control.

August 31, 2003

Contract packaging

New facility for Panoramic

Panoramic, a packaging thermoformer and contract packager, has moved its manufacturing facility and headquarters to a newly renovated campus in Janesville, WI.

August 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Servo-driven shrink wrapper

Arpac Group offers the servo-driven Model 75GI high-speed shrink wrapper that operates at speeds to 75 bundles/min. Machine is designed specifically for the printing and publishing industry, shrink wrapping random-size bundles, extremely short stacks, and lightweight products.

August 31, 2003