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Controls & Machine Components

Noncontact transfer unit offers a lift

Cox MHP’s indexing machine employs three units that pick empty, porous bags from a magazine—without contacting them—and place each bag into a prefilling station on the machine.

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Sustainability

Packagers emphasize environment and economics

Packaging professionals from Estée Lauder/Aveda, Hewlett-Packard, and Bacardi Bottling describe how their companies view packaging that is environmentally sustainable.

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Flexible packaging

Flexible winners strike gold

Winners of the Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2004 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards demonstrate the impact of technology on the form and function of flexible packaging.

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Shining a light on automation

By eliminating manual assembly from its packaging line, Peterson Manufacturing Company has increased sales, lowered production costs, and saved money on materials.

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Filling/capping, dry

Liquid packaging servo gains popularity with machine builders

ELAU’s new integral servo motor/drive, the PacDrive™ SCL-055, has received significant attention among respected liquid packaging machinery builders.

February 29, 2004

Flexible packaging

Pouch receives Member's Choice award

This year’s Flexible Packaging Assn. Member’s Choice award went to Specialty Films & Associates’ entry for the Digital Innovations MP3 Pouch.

February 29, 2004

Containers

Paper or plastic?

When a bulk-milk dairy added route service to its mix, it needed conveying and palletizing to handle either corrugated boxes or plastic crates.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Inline p-s labeling system

Label-Aire offers its Inline Series 9000 inline pressure-sensitive label system for single- and multi-panel, front/back, and wrap labeling applications.

February 29, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Alloyd introduces new generation Aergo sealing machine

The Alloyd Company has introduced an entirely new blister sealing machine that combines ergonomic enhancements with a unique process that enables it to seal both plastic-to-plastic and blister-to-card packages.

February 29, 2004

Containers

Calorie catharsis

FDA’s attack on obesity promises food label copy changes while substantive packaging purges may be possible, too.

February 29, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA promotes safe use of pain products

The Food and Drug Administration launched a national education campaign to promote safer use of over-the-counter pain relief products, particularly those containing acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen sodium, and ketoprofen.

February 29, 2004

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

Heinz shakes foodservice market

In February, H.J. Heinz launched Heinz Fry Shakers dry seasonings throughout much of the United States.

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