Closures

New package puts child safety in the zone

A multilayer tube and “push and turn” closure is helping CCA Industries of East Rutherford, NJ, meet Consumer Product Safety Commission guidelines for products containing lidocaine and dibucaine.

August 31, 2002

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1589

Flexibles

Portability drives Nabisco/Kraft's 'Go-Paks!'

Nabisco Go-Paks!

August 31, 2002

Flexibles

Milk package research

The total world market for packaged liquid milk was 120 billion liters in 2001. That’s according to a report titled World Milk Markets-Processing, Packaging and Market Developments by Warrick Research (Cranbrook, Kent, England).

August 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Q&A: Using servos properly

Dave Lutz, senior packaging engineering specialist for General Mills, says machine builders should apply servos properly or shouldn’t bother applying them at all.

August 31, 2002

Closures

Package design--the cutting edge

Experimental Packaging is a volume full of packages and designs that push the envelope of creativity, often way beyond the practical.

August 31, 2002

Containers

Graphics help new brand break into bath and body

The new “sub-brand” Ohm by Olay from Procter and Gamble, a line of botanical bath and body products, launched this summer. The packaging, with graphics designed by Libby Perszyk Kathman (Cincinnati, OH), ranges from spray bottles to lotion tubes and cartons.

August 31, 2002

Additives, coatings & inks

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

August 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Web Plus: Researching equipment online is not just window shopping

Surfing the Internet is more than a pastime for Another Day Ltd. manager David Lickhalter. It’s an efficient way to research equipment that the San Diego-based pet-supply company needs to package its liquid products.

August 31, 2002

Flexible packaging

Companies

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (Houston, TX) relocated its worldwide headquarters from downtown Houston to 10001 Six Pines Drive, The Woodlands, TX.

August 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

In Memoriam

EPI Labelers (New Freedom, PA) regrets to announce that its founder James P. Vonderhorst, 57, died Aug. 7.

August 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Trans fat labeling receives boost

The drive to require the display of the amount of trans fat as part of the food nutrition label got a big boost from a report by the National Academy of Sciences released in mid-July.

August 31, 2002

Flexibles

Bagger puts zip in radish packs

Radish grower moves from a semiautomatic bagging system using premade zipper bags to an automatic bagger with integrated transdirectional zipper system that automatically applies the zipper material across the film web.

August 31, 2002

Flexibles

Green beans get vf/f/s treatment

Pennsylvania produce marketer teams up with key suppliers to develop a customized vf/f/s solution for a complex film that incorporates an unusual mesh component.

August 31, 2002