Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1651

Controls & Machine Components

Hoffman: Automation brochure

Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) has published a brochure describing its products and customer service. Brochure addresses the following issues: tool-less changeover, increased throughput, reduced maintenance/increased reliability, material/product scrap, and footprint.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Great Northern Corp: Roll cradles brochure

Great Northern (Appleton, WI) has issued new literature describing its recycled fiber, double-sided roll cradles. This design is said to eliminate the need to use back-to-back cradles for roll stacking to reduce packaging material usage by an average of 37%.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Company booklet

Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) has published a booklet describing its products and listing company subsidiaries and worldwide offices. Also describes a product line called Trabtech, which includes surge suppressors that can prevent transient voltage damage.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: Product brochure

CTC Parker’s (Milford, OH) brochure describes its full line of PowerStation and Industrial PC hardware solutions. The PowerStation family includes a 6” panel replacer as well as a 15” high-performance PC and can be bundled with CTC’s MachineShop suite of controls software.

April 30, 2001

Closures

US demand for closures will contin

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Report published by Freedonia Group. Increasing use of plastic packaging will boost need for caps by 3% a year. Click logo for full article.

April 30, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Miller time is now clearer

Clear, pressure-sensitive labels are decorating Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) and Genuine Draft Light (MGD Light) 12-oz long-neck bottles for Miller’s national on-premise summer and fall ’01 music promotions. Paper labels are also being replaced by the no-label-look for national retail distribution of the two brands. Last year, Miller tested 11 core markets with the clear labels and “significant volume increases were realized by both brands,” says Ron Acosta, public relations manager for MGD.

April 30, 2001

Converting equipment

Dannon fits Frusion with contoured bottle

An easy-to-grip, contoured bottle with a dazzling shrink-sleeve label is pivotal to The Dannon Company's new Frusion fruit 'n' yogurt smoothie. Tarrytown, NY-based Dannon introduced Frusion nationwide in May after successful testing in 7-Eleven convenience stores in New England and southern California.

April 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

SouthPack 2001 wrap

SouthPack ’01 brought packaging manufacturers together from April 24 to 26 at the World Congress Center in Atlanta. The three-day show managed to spark some new technology interests, although many exhibitors were quick to notice the slow pace of attendees throughout the exhibition hall.

April 30, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Light booth traffic at SouthPack 2001

We observed very light booth traffic in Atlanta at SouthPack on all three days -- the lightest we have ever seen at a regional packaging trade show.

April 30, 2001

Converting equipment

Richards Packaging wins for combo pack

An unusual two-chamber bottle for Diamond Magic Chemical Ltd., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, won Best of Show in the annual packaging competition of the National Assn. of Container Distributors (Philadelphia, PA). Winning distributor is Richards Packaging (Brampton, Ontario, Canada).

April 30, 2001

Sustainable Packaging

Aseptic drink box recyclable in Canada

What was once reviled by environmentalists in the United States and was actually banned in the state of Maine in the early ‘90s is now the recipient of an environmental award in Canada. A new 250-ml recyclable Tetra® Prisma aseptic carton, which holds Oasis Health Break juice cocktails from A. Lassonde, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, received an Envirowise Award for its recyclability from the Packaging Association of Canada in April ’01.

April 30, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

PET bottle catches a wave

This spring, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., Lakeville-Middleboro, MA, has begun nationwide distribution of its complete line of juices and juice drinks in a new flagship 64-oz Ocean Spray polyethylene terephthalate bottle. A unique brand-recognizable grip top incorporates the company logo and name molded into the bell of the bottle.

April 30, 2001