Tamper-evident machinery

Induction sealing now retrofittable for conduction applications

Are you looking for a better way to seal containers without a cap? If the answer is yes, Enercon has some important news for you.

May 31, 2003

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Flexibles

Tropicana introduces Golden Carafe

Said to be the first true carafe molded of PET, Tropicana's new 1.75-L container for Pure Premium orange juice began shipping to stores early in May. With a 63-mm, wide-mouth opening, the carafe is blow-molded by Graham Packaging.

May 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Aclar blister foil

Hueck Foils (Wall, NJ) offers its line of blister foils sealing to ACLAR high-barrier films made by Honeywell (Morristown, NJ).

May 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Pilfer-resistant packaging

As an alternative to the PVC blister, Blisterguard from Colbert Packaging (Lake Forest, IL) is made with Valéron® (Houston, TX) Strength Film, a tear-resistant flexible film.

May 31, 2003

Containers

Shaped aseptic cartons

SIG Combibloc’s “combishape” aseptic beverage cartons can be produced in customized shapes for product differentiation. Carton consists of different components from which the final shape is created in the customer’s filling machine.

May 31, 2003

Labeling

More voices on COO labeling

The American Meat Institute went on the offensive against proposed mandatory country-of-origin labeling requirements.

May 31, 2003

Controls & machine components

Cognex certified to issue continuing education units

Cognex Corp., a supplier of machine vision systems and sensors, has been certified to issue Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to those who complete its classroom courses, live and recorded online classes, and computer-based tutorials.

May 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Vacuum-sealed, self-venting entre?s

“So Easy” Sauced entreés from Hormel’s Jennie-O Turkey Store, Willmar, MN, bring new convenience to consumers’ tables. The line of precooked, refrigerated entreés are the latest example of SimpleSteps™ technology from the Cryovac Div. of Sealed Air.

May 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Interoperability demo: Profound implications for packaging machinery buyers

A Siemens PLC exchanges packaging data with a Rockwell Allen-Bradley PLC via a simulated packaging-line network.

May 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: DC motor/speed control

Oriental Motor USA Corp. (Torrance, CA) introduces the AXU Series of high-performance brushless DC speed control systems. Compact systems, comprised of a BLDC motor and a speed control unit, provide energy efficient speed control in 10W, 25W, 40W, and 90W output power levels.

April 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Baldwin Filters: Batch-printing system for folding cartons cuts inventory dramatically

On the Carton Pro batch printing system from Paragon Machinery Corp., flat carton blanks are pulled from a magazine, sent through three ink-jet print heads, and then shingled for case packing.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Large-character, ink-jet printer

Diagraph offers the IJ 3000 Impulse Jet large character ink jet printer. The product will be shown at EastPack 2003, from June 2-4 in New York, at the company’s booth #731.

April 30, 2003

Flexibles

Foil laminate bags and drum liners

Rexam introduces new low-density polyethylene and foil laminate bags and drum liners manufactured in a cGMP-compliant environment for use in packaging bulk drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients.

April 30, 2003