Secondary Packaging

Quintex: Case erector elevates output for bottle packing

After installing a new blow molder, Quintex Plastics, Spokane, WA, sought a higher output, mezzanine-mounted solution to manual case erecting from Pearson Packaging. Key operations are shown for the erector and bottom sealer, which is located in a tight space.

September 30, 2002

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1582

Secondary Packaging

Overwrapping machine

Marden Edwards (Antioch, CA) will show the new Series 4 overwrapping machine for the first time at Pack Exp. Increased simplicity and quick changeovers benchmark this more versatile compact modular constructed overwrapper.

September 30, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Bag closing machine

WEB EXLUSIVE: Optima Machinery (Green Bay, WI) introduces a Clipfix bag closing machine from P&S Mako that is designed for combination with horizontal form/fill/seal machines.

September 30, 2002

Cartoning

Bag-in-box cartoner

Triangle Package Machinery (Chicago) will be introducing its bag-in-box cartoner, ProLine FC, at Pack Expo, booth 1121. ProLine FC employs a new method for inserting bags into cartons in single, twin, and triple pack patterns.

September 30, 2002

Sustainability

IOPP 2002 AmeriStar Awards (Continued 4)

Bellows Nasal WashBest of Category: Pharmaceutical/Drug The bellows feature molded in the side of the package makes it much easier to use this nasal wash product than other similar products.

September 30, 2002

Flexible packaging

IOPP 2002 AmeriStar Awards (Continued 3)

Terro Outdoor Ant KillerBest of Category: Outdoor & Gardening Senoret Chemical Co.'s Terro Outdoor Ant Killer is the first application of the stand-up, ShakerPAK dispensing pouch with handles.

September 30, 2002

Closures

IOPP 2002 AmeriStar Awards (Continued 2)

Pringles Snack Stack Cup Best of Category: FoodPringles Snack Stack cups are high-barrier, custom-shaped, single-serve cups thermoformed in-line.

September 30, 2002

Flexibles

IOPP 2002 AmeriStar Awards

Packaging World highlights the Best of Show winner, the 3M Integrity winner, and the 35 AmeriStar winners of The Institute of Packaging Professionals (Naperville, IL) 2002 AmeriStar Awards.

September 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pro Mach acquires ID Technology

ID Technology (Fort Worth, TX) announces that it has been acquired by Pro Mach, Inc.

September 30, 2002

Closures

Enclosures for washdown environments

Hoffman (Anoka, MN) introduces Watershed™ enclosures, a line of stainless steel freestanding and wall-mount enclosures designed to help prevent accumulation of contaminants by eliminating areas where water can pool.

September 30, 2002

Controls & machine components

High-power vision system

PPT Vision (Eden Prairie, MN) has announced Impact™, a new high-speed machine vision micro-system that is said to be competitively priced with vision sensors but has the power and flexibility of large expensive vision systems.

September 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Plug-and-Pack3; machinery meeting at Pack Expo

Learn about advances made in Plug-and-Pack™ machinery. Such equipment uses standard operator interface screens, machine states, programming languages, and networks. The benefit: fast, flexible changeover and the ability to be plugged into a packaging line anywhere in the world.

September 30, 2002

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister card packaging board

New Everest® Seal-Pak from International Paper (Memphis, TN) is a patented, extrusion-coated paperboard designed specifically for fold-over heat-seal blister card applications.

September 30, 2002