Protective/transport packaging

Trade show 'shot' scores

Kwik Goal managers visited a trade show to find new packaging for their soccer goals. They came home with better protective packaging and a way to reduce hands-on labor costs.

April 30, 2002

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1604

Tamper-evident machinery

FDA wants packaging 'pedigrees'

New bioterrorism law will require packagers to maintain records about sources of packaging materials.

April 30, 2002

Contract Packaging

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April 30, 2002

Protective/transport packaging

Cost-cutting pack passes tests

Precision-scientific-equipment manufacturer Pressurements Ltd. exports hand pressure testers in a specially die-cut corrugated pack, cutting shipping costs by 16%.

April 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Schmalbach-Lubec: Hot-fill PET design literature

Schmalbach-Lubeca (Manchester, MI) has developed new literature that graphically depicts a new series of “panel-less” concepts in single-serve hot-fill PET bottles.

March 31, 2002

Flexible packaging

Avail Medical: Upgraded vf/f/s pharma poucher

At this contract packager of medical and pharmaceutical products, isolated in a curtained area, the vf/f/s machine drops the six-up packets to a takeaway conveyor at a rate of 60 cycles/min.

March 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

A.R.C.: Computerized netweigher for roofing nails

Roofing nails are distributed by a vibratory feeder to the vf/f/s cone, which spreads them to the ring of 14 sets of buckets. The computer-controlled buckets provide the nails three-buckets-at-a-time to the bagger and onto a takeaway conveyor at a rate to 40/min of the 50-count, 1.5-lb bags. Equipment was supplied by Batching Systems.

March 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

A.R.C.: Optical-based parts counting

Fasteners are sorted, individually counted by the optical-based units, and deposited into a 60?-long heavy-duty indexing bucket conveyor. The bol counter shown is one of 10 side-by-side units, plus two Thru-Wall bolt feeders‹that supply fasteners such as washers to a vf/f/s bagger at a rate to 40 filled buckets/min. Equipment was supplied by Batching Systems.

March 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

A.R.C.: Vf/f/s kit bagging for parts

Counted parts and a literature sheet drop down the filling tube to the bag, which temporarily rests upon a platform to withstand the impact of up to 30 lb of hardware. An inclined conveyor leads to a bulk bin. Equipment was supplied by Batching Systems.

March 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

European group acquires Canada's Wulftec

M.J. Maillis Group announced April 22 the acquisition of stretch wrapping equipment manufacturer Wulftec International Inc. (Ayer’s Cliff, Québec, Canada).

March 31, 2002

Flexibles

Mitsubishi Polyester film announces PET shrink film lines

WEB EXLUSIVE: Greer, SC-based Mitsubishi Polyester Film, LLC, (Americas) has announced plans for a capital investment that will convert one of the existing PET film lines into the production of PET shrink films.

March 31, 2002

Flexibles

DuPont and EarthShell form strategic alliance

On April 11, EarthShell Corp. (Santa Barbara, CA) and DuPont (Wilmington, DE) announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to accelerate commercialization of environmentally friendly packaging.

March 31, 2002

Flexibles

Cargill Dow opens first corn-based resin plant

On April 2, Minneapolis-based Cargill Dow LLC announced the grand opening of what it says is the world’s first global manufacturing facility capable of making commercial-grade plastic from renewable resources such as ordinary corn.

March 31, 2002