Cartoning

Packaging marketplaces take center stage

This year will be recorded as the year of the Internet "packaging auction gold rush." Auction--and classifieds--Web sites are popping up faster than you can say "network protocol" in the great race to establish Internet-based marketplaces for selling packaging equipment and materials.

September 30, 1999

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Flexibles

Barrier films are on a roll (sidebar)

Two-pronged attack in case -- ready meats

September 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Marking for the millennium

Y2K compliance, cost cuts and improved print quality top the list of reasons why a Kentucky soft drink bottler changed to a new coding system for its glass bottles.

September 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Datamax Corp. (Orlando, FL) has opened a new software and connectivity lab that will serve as a learning center and testing ground to support the co.'s line of bar-code printers.

September 30, 1999

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Label Pack Converting Institute (Gorham, ME) has been reorganized and has changed its focus to become a worldwide supplier-oriented organization.

September 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Widespread responsibility for fixing Y2K, (sidebar)

Packagers beware: few controls guarantees

September 30, 1999

Flow wrapping

Packagers take a lease on new business

Packagers that lease equipment cite preservation of working capital and tax benefits as advantages over buying.

September 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Overhead carriage wrapping averts product damage

Red Devil, a manufacturer of caulk, sealants and spackling compounds, eliminated product damage by switching to stretch wrappers that move film around a stationary load rather than spinning the load on a turntable.

September 30, 1999

Cartoning

Packaging helps Johnson & Johnson enter food business

A custom thermoform and sophisticated packaging machinery help bring Johnson & Johnson's cholesterol-reducing Benecol spread to supermarkets across the country.

September 30, 1999

Flexibles

Keebler trumpets 'hand puppet' pouch

Last month, Elmhurst, IL-based Keebler Co. introduced stand-up contour pouches for its new 7-oz Elf® Grahams snacks. The pouches are meant to be used as hand puppets after the product is consumed.

September 30, 1999

Flexibles

Kellogg cereal in linerless gabletop carton

In recent years, cereal marketers have turned to flexible pouches and bags to differentiate their products from traditional bag-in-box offerings. Kellogg, however, took a different tack in introducing Special K Plus(TM).

September 30, 1999

Closures

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Phoenix Closures (Naperville, IL) has purchased a 127ꯠ sq' facility in Davenport, IA, which will become a fully automated closure mfg.

September 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

House: Delay OHSA's ergonomics standard Supplement labels

In written testimony to FDA on structure/function claims for dietary supplements, Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) says that while consumer safety is obviously FDA's top priority, real risks are few and far between.

September 30, 1999