Contract Packaging

Consumers power packaging

An exclusive Packworld.com survey shows most packagers test packaging with consumers, though the majority of packagers do so with modest investments.

February 28, 2002

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1612

Controls & Machine Components

Opening up access to production data (sidebar)

Distributed data server

February 28, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Opening up access to production data

Italian label converter enjoys easier access to production data and e-mail notification of production events via standard Web software.

February 28, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

PLCopen releases motion specification

PLCopen, a vendor- and product-independent association supporting standardized approaches to machine control, has released a motion-control specification that it hopes will take hold in the packaging community.

February 28, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC at interpack 2002

The interpack trade show will be the site of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup’s next meeting, to be held April 24 from 2 to 5 p.m. in Room 27, second floor of the Congress Center Düsseldorf South (CCD.Sud) in Düsseldorf, Germany.

February 28, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC standardizes machine states (sidebar)

Simulate machine states on your PC

February 28, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC standardizes machine states

The PackML “state model,” if widely adopted, promises to optimize line performance and reduce line integration costs through standardization.

February 28, 2002

Flexibles

FPA Achievement Award suppliers

Alpha listing of suppliers mentioned in March '02 coverage of Flexible Packaging Assn.'s 2001 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards:

February 28, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Del Monte Foods Company: Labeler tandem in action for canned foods

For label roll switch-overs at the Del Monte Foods Company, a pair of interconnected label applicators from Universal Labeling Systems adds up to zero downtime, which equals high efficiency for this San Francisco-based food producer and distributor.

January 31, 2002

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Lohmann Animal Health: Filling animal vaccines

Right after single filing, bottles are conveyed to the four-head liquid filler from Cozzoli Machine.

January 31, 2002

Filling/capping, dry

Lohmann Animal Health: Stoppering and overcapping

Filled bottles of animal vaccines have stoppers applied automatically by equipment supplied by Cozzoli Machine and then are conveyed through a wall and into the foil overcapping machine from West Pharmaceutical Services.

January 31, 2002

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

SIG Pack International and Presto co-market Easy Snap3;

SIG Pack International’s affiliate SIG Doboy, Inc.-Easy Snap Division (New Richmond, WI) and Presto Products Company’s Fresh-Lock Zipper Business Unit (Appleton, WI) are co-marketing the Easy Snap™ closure system in North America.

January 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

How electronic controls impact equipment costs

In mid-December, the top engineering management at Hershey Foods, Hershey, PA, asked Rick Lidington of R.A. Jones to give a presentation that touched on some current packaging equipment trends. Packaging World was invited to listen in.

January 31, 2002