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Additives, coatings & inks

Irradiation packaging

Although irradiation is now being recognized as a potent food safety tool and more and more foods have been approved for irradiation, its increased use may be limited by the small number of packaging materials and additives cleared for use in FDA regulations.

September 30, 2001

Flexibles

FPA calls for entries

November 21, 2001 is the deadline for entries for the 2001 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards. Winners will be announced at the association’s annual meeting at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage, CA, Feb.

September 30, 2001

Sustainable Packaging

Molded pulp seminar rescheduled

The attack on the U.S. and prevailing travel difficulties have prompted the International Molded Pulp Environmental Packaging Assn. (Mequon, WI) to reschedule the 6th International Molded Pulp Packaging Seminar from Sept.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC posts packaging guidelines

The OMAC Motion for Packaging working group carried out its scheduled meeting at Pack Expo Las Vegas on September 11, with more than 70 people attending.

September 30, 2001

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

P&G tests Pringles portion pack

Procter & Gamble is test marketing Smart Stacks, a 0.81-oz portion pack of its Pringles-brand potato crisps, in a thermoformed polypropylene cup whose bottom is shaped like the curvy snack.

September 30, 2001

Closures

Welch's opts for multilayer PP, easy-spread cap

Like other juice marketers, Welch’s has typically relied on heat-set polyethylene terephthalate when converting from glass to plastic. But the firm changed that pattern when it came time to design a plastic alternative to its 10-oz single-serve glass containers. This time, the Concord, MA-based firm opted for a translucent polypropylene bottle rather than clear PET.

September 30, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID technology

AFE Industries (Santa Fe Springs, CA) has developed Total Tech Support services for companies interested in expanding into radio-frequency identification Smart Labels.

September 30, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

5-layer blown film coex line

Bandera Luigi (Busto Arsizio, Italy) will present a five-layer blown film coextrusion line. The line features gravimetric dosing and loading equipment with a supervisory system, 5 single-screw extruders, melt filtering units, a 5-layer laterally-fed coextrusion head, the newly developed roll-type bubble calibration baskets, and a rotating upper take-off unit.

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Flexo Rotary printer

The Flexpress 16 S/10 from Fischer and Krecke (Bielefeld, Germany) steplessly prints all materials in any print repeat between 320 and 1020 mm (12.61 and 40.19”) and in print widths of 1050 to 1650 mm (41.47 to 65.01”).

September 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Multi-use servo drive

The “all-in-one” Lexium™ servo drive from Schneider (North Andover, MA) can be used as a smart analog amplifier, a stepper translator, a SERCOS servo drive, or a stand-alone motion controller.

September 30, 2001

Flexibles

Kodak sees ?Advantix? in pouch

Kodak Canada Inc. is test marketing a four-pack of its Advantix-brand photographic film in a reclosable zippered gusseted pouch in Canada. It’s believed that this is the first film sold in a resealable pouch in North America.

September 30, 2001

Labels

Havana brews enticing shape, graphics

The allure of Havana’s sophisticated nightlife emerges through the image of an exotic woman to become the icon that dominates the full-body shrink label adorning Havana, an iced coffee from North American Beverage Co., Ocean City, NJ.

September 30, 2001