Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1764

Controls & Machine Components

Posimat, Inc: Plastic bottle newsletter

A recent issue of Posimat’s (Miami, FL) newsletter, Posimat News, is specifically directed toward assisting carbonated drink bottlers in cutting production costs in the manufacturing of PET bottles.

January 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Standwill Packaging, Inc: Laser-cut labels

Roll-fed and sheet-fed labels can now be laser-cut by Standwill Packaging (Farmingdale, NY). Laser cutting can be performed on nearly all paper-based materials, as well as hot-stamped or printed areas of a packaging component.

January 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Western Plastics: Printed pallet wrap

Western Plastics (Temecula, CA) has introduced printed pallet wrap for product identification and to deter tampering. Made of LLDPE, the wrap can be flexo-printed in up to 2 colors.

January 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Mafcote-Wabash Paper Coatings: Mafcote-Wabash Paper Coatings: PP tag

Mafcote-Wabash (Norwalk, CT) has introduced Typar Tag®. This 100% spunbonded, PP synthetic stock is said to be comparable to Tyvek® in strength and moisture resistance but is more economical.

January 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Valu Guide, Div. of Valu Eng.: Spring-loaded brackets

Valu Guide® Div. of Valu Eng. (Irvine, CA) introduces a new version of its SpeedSet Bracket line for the conveying industry. These spring-loaded brackets provide fast, repeatable line changes to preset positions for up to 3 container sizes.

January 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Clinton Packaging: Hexagon jar

Clinton Packaging’s (St. Louis, MO) 720-mL hexagon glass jar has an 82-mm twist-off finish. The jar is suitable for a variety of gourmet foods, candies and specialty items, as well as potpourri and candles.

January 31, 2000

Sustainability

Food packs sparkle in DuPont Awards

From an Ocean Spray package that won the Diamond Award to a vacuum-insulated container for foods and other temperature-sensitive products, this year’s DuPont Award winners are an eclectic and innovative bunch.

January 31, 2000

Cartoning

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Multivac (Kansas City, MO): Michel L. Defenbau, CEO, Multivac North and Central America.—Klöckner Medipak (Clearwater, FL): Dirk Briskorn, president; Bill Whitesel, vp of operations; Paul Williams, vp, sales, marketing and service.—Slautterback Corp.

January 31, 2000

Flexibles

Supplier news: International agreements

Sidel (La Havre, France) has acquired Norden Pac (Kalmar, Sweden).—Pinnacle Automation (St. Louis, MO) has been acquired by FKI plc (Loughborough, U.K.).—Amcor Twinpak North America (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) has reached an agreement to acquire a majority interest in Stevens Flexible Packaging, Inc.

January 31, 2000

Flexibles

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc. (Asheville, NC) has signed a letter of intent to purchase Westvaco Corp.’s (New York, NY) liquid packaging business.

January 31, 2000

Secondary Packaging

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

UCB Films (Wigton, Cumbria, England) will invest $50 million throughout the next year to increase its production capacity for specialty coated films.

January 31, 2000

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Partition inserter for P&G bottles

Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble’s recent decision to go nationwide with its 300-oz Press Tap container of liquid detergent (see PW, Feb. ‘99, p.8 or packworld.

January 31, 2000