Sustainability

Dow Corning sings praises of palletizer/stretch wrapper combo

Combo systems at the end of three silicone sealant cartridge packaging lines save space, money and materials at the company's Elizabethtown, KY, facility.

November 30, 1999

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1734

Controls & Machine Components

Desperately seeking standards

Head engineers from Anheuser-Busch, General Mills, Hershey Foods, Nabiscoand Procter & Gamble begin a dialogue with machinery and controls suppliers on motion control standards for packaging. Part one.

November 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

HMR package serves dual markets

Southern BBQ restaurant chain and mail-order business employs the same dual-ovenable CPET tray and attractive paperboard carton to introduce frozen dinners sold both in hospitals and grocery stores.

November 30, 1999

Flexible packaging

Foodservice packs at twice the speed

Canadian coffee marketer sees growth in coffee filter-packs used by guests in hotel rooms. A new flow wrapper lets the firm aggressively pursue this foodservice market niche.

November 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Ordering spare parts via the Web (sidebar)

Capsule reviews

November 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Pizza Hut serves 'Wrappies' with breakfast sandwiches

To better contain its breakfast sandwiches and make them easier to eat, Pizza Hut Express employs an unusual 'Wrappie.'

November 30, 1999

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Broad attendance at motion control meeting (sidebar)

Desparately seeking standards

November 30, 1999

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

Printer furnishes improved productivity

A furniture hardware distributor uses a thermal-transfer printer for bar codes, graphics and part numbers on its bagged hardware to cut costs and increase production.

November 30, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Service opportunities abound in foodservice

But it's also evident even in more expensive establishments. My wife and I have been disappointed for a wide variety of reasons, often because the restaurant didn't have the meal that we ordered from the menu.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

KoSa (Charlotte, NC): Carolyn Case, dir., global recycling development, Packaging Resins business.

November 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Uniloy-Milacron (Manchester, MI) has expanded its exclusive microcellular foam license agreement with Trexel (Woburn, MA) to include blow molding, as well as previously announced low-pressure structural foam applications.

November 30, 1999

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: International agreements

KoSa (Houston, TX) and Catalana de Polimers (Barcelona, Spain), have signed a letter of intent to form a 50:50 joint venture to manufacture packaging resins.

November 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

EU votes mandatory GM labeling

The European Standing Committee on Foodstuffs, by an overwhelming majority, voted to require special labeling of foods in which at least one ingredient contains more than 1% of genetically modified (GM) material.

November 30, 1999