Flexibles

Corrugated comes over the Internet

Building materials supplier Owens Corning is convinced that procurement can be conducted most efficiently and cost effectively via reverse auctions over the Internet.

March 31, 2000

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Secondary Packaging

Equipment Purchasing: Point and click palletizer

Purchasing palletizing equipment became a whole lot easier for Kimberly-Clark Corp. when the company encountered the right Web site.

March 31, 2000

Flexibles

Streaming videos demo equipment online (sidebar)

Capsule reviews

March 31, 2000

Flexibles

Clever display boosts sales

A shrink sleeve fitted with a theft-detection wire provides a French silverware manufacturer with a new way to safely display its wares. No one ever said the French always follow the rules. Amefa France in Thiers, France, is a good example. According to marketing manager Jean-Michel Parisy, the company was looking for a better way to display its products.

March 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Rx for supplement labels: a mixed prescription

Agency gives new leeway for disease prevention claims but imposes some significant restrictions, too.

March 31, 2000

Sustainability

Plastic's beckoning to beer

Two European brewers are pushing ahead with barrier coatings on PET bottles while a third is expanding its use of coinjected multilayer technology.

March 31, 2000

Converting equipment

Blow molder comes to Pennzoil's 'Rescue' (sidebar 2)

The art and the angles

March 31, 2000

Converting equipment

Blow molder comes to Pennzoil's 'Rescue' (sidebar 1)

Tough to find suppliers

March 31, 2000

Converting equipment

Blow molder comes to Pennzoil's 'Rescue'

PVC Container companies create new blow molding technology to provide Pennzoil with high-barrier bottle for a gasoline substitute. Flexible spout and closures complete package on an incredible timetable.

March 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Plugged-in package takes top prize

Sleek and colorful, the computer mouse-like package for a line of “extreme” hair care products nabs NACD’s “Best of Show” honor.

March 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Automation solutions

GE Fanuc (Charlottesville, VA) offers a 469-page catalog detailing its complete line of automation products and services, including Cimplicity software.

February 29, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Priority One Packaging Machinery: Water bottle loader/unloader

Handling 3- and 5-gal water bottles, the Mariner from Priority One (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) simultaneously unloads empty bottles from racks and loads full bottles onto racks at speeds to 50 bpm.

February 29, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Advanced Micro Controls Inc: Networkable PLS

The Nexus programmable limit switch, from Advanced Micro Controls (Terryville, CT), is a high-speed resolver-based PLS with up to 16 outputs that comes with a ControlNet interface.

February 29, 2000