Flexible packaging

Bag and pouch filler/sealer

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: The Bartelt® intermittent-motion fill-and-seal machine transfers premade bags or pouches from a magazine feeder; places them within leading and trailing clamps; then opens, fills, and seals them.

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Conveying & accumulation

Fast-change PET air conveying

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: Whisper Side Flow™ (WSF) empty container air conveyance features 28/38 TwinTrak™, which permits a pneumatically operated fingertip changeover between 28- and 38-mm neck finishes at the flip of a switch and without change parts.

October 31, 2002

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Award-winning thermoform

NEWS FROM PACK EXPO: Less than a year ago, Andex Industries (Escanaba, MI) designed a thermoformed package for American Visionwear’s line of range finders for hunters.

October 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

Pallaypack Inc: Shrink bundler

PallayPack Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) offers the Arenco Line of shrink bundlers for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food products. Available in 3 models, shrink bundlers can accommodate bottles from 1 oz to 1 gal.

October 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Machine controls

Siemens Energy & Automation (Alpharetta, GA) offers Simotion®, a family of products that incorporates motion control, logic, as well as temperature and pneumatic control, in a single, integrated system.

October 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Eastman Chemical Company: Clearer copolyester for cosmetics

Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, TN) introduces Eastar copolyester DN011, a new injection-molding grade that is Eastman’s clearest copolyester to date, company says.

October 31, 2002

Closures

Glue bottle ingeniously dispenses convenience

The detail that went into the bottle for Loctite Professional Wood Worx glue is like that for a well-crafted piece of furniture.

October 31, 2002

Flexibles

FPA call for entries

The Flexible Packaging Assn. announced December 2, 2002, as the deadline for entries for its 2003 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition that honors packaging and converting excellence in flexible packaging.

October 31, 2002

Sustainable Packaging

CALL FOR ENVIRO PAPERS

The Take it Back!

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Closures

Have a drink with Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer Lite Half & Half is a new beverage that’s not just for thirsty golfers.

October 31, 2002

Closures

Gatorade's All-Stars don PET

In July, The Gatorade Company launched a line of hot-filled 12-oz Gatorade All-Stars beverages for “tweens” (kids between 8 and 12) in injection/stretch-blow-molded PET bottles from Amcor PET Packaging (Manchester, MI).

October 31, 2002

Closures

Crave packaging is revealing

A 2.5-oz plastic spray bottle mounted inside a see-through plastic “carton” distinguishes the packaging for Crave fragrance from Calvin Klein Cosmetics, a New York, NY, div.

October 31, 2002

Closures

Dasani does the twist

Most beverage bottles with sports caps open by pulling up on the cap, and they’re closed by pushing the spout back down. But a new 24-oz PET bottle of Coca-Cola’s Dasani-brand water uses a unique overcap/spout combination that twists open.

October 31, 2002