Labels

Plastic bottles move toward aseptics

It won’t be a ‘slam dunk,’ but some experts say that aseptic filling of both high-and low-acid products into plastic bottles will gain wider acceptance across the United States.

October 31, 2001

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1630

Conveying & accumulation

New line boasts new sterilizing technology

Adelholzener of Germany is leading the charge when it comes to popularizing one-way plastic beverage bottles in a region that has long resisted this package format.

October 31, 2001

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Yogurt producer fills craving for higher throughput

Yofarm reduces waste dramatically with a new auger filler that achieves consistent volume control of yogurt toppings.

October 31, 2001

Closures

Small orders + small orders = big orders

Low-volume buyers of packaging materials are striking up deals and saving up to 40% on their purchases through online demand aggregation.

October 31, 2001

Closures

Small orders + small orders = big savings (sidebar)

Packaging distributor saves 20% online

October 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Delivering for dairy

Oberweis Dairy’s investment in new filling, capping, labeling, conveying, bottle-packing, and shrink-wrapping machinery begins to pay off with the introduction of single-serve milks.

October 31, 2001

Closures

Delivering for dairy (sidebar)

Custom bottle helps launch Oberweis Dairy into single-serve milks

October 31, 2001

Secondary Packaging

Upset over inserts

New FDA demands for package inserts would bloat printing requirements and force some products to add outer cartons.

October 31, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Upset over inserts (sidebar)

Stop bugging us!

October 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Side-sealed and delivered

A manufacturer of crown molding invests in a horizontal shrink wrapper that delivers better protective packaging and tamper evidence.

October 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Brushless motion system literature

Oriental Motor (Torrance, CA) has published a catalog describing the BX Series of compact, DC brushless speed-control systems that provide a 100:1 speed range from 30 to 3ꯠ rpm.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motors and drives catalog

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) has released Version 7.0 of its interactive electronic catalog on CD-ROM. Users are able to access instantly a wide variety of technical information on more than 6귔 different Baldor motors and drives.

September 30, 2001

Palletizing/depalletizing

Nature's Way Purewater: Depalletizing

On this bottled water line, one of two robots from Custom Metal Designs depalletizes bagged layers of 1-gal containers and places them onto the infeed of the debagging system. The output of each of the twin units is nearly two LDPE-bagged layers/min, or a total of 180 containers/min.

September 30, 2001