Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1778

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Imtec Inc. (Bellows Falls, VT): Larry Sportello, dir., sales and marketing, labeling systems; Mark Brooke, dir., sales and marketing, media products.

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Converting equipment

More than just a pretty package

A line of high-density polyethylene bottles combines form and function to clinch NACD's Best of Show award. Other winners also fit the theme of beauty and functionality.

April 30, 1999

Closures

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Risdon-AMS (Naugatuck, CT): Steve Levine, vp, operations, lipsticks and specialty closures.

April 30, 1999

Labels

Rubber hits the road at FDA

Agency tells companies with rubber in products and packaging to get rid of the latex or use warning labels.

April 30, 1999

Closures

Glass decoration clearly wins

Jelly jars' decoration brings movie to life, wins award and even becomes a collector's item.

April 30, 1999

Containers

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

CCL Container Tube Div. (Oak Ridge, NJ): Andrew S. Beuschel, account mgr.

April 30, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Source tags provide measured security improvements

Stanley Tools houses a security label in a patented PVC capsule that clips onto the back of its tape rule package.

April 30, 1999

Sustainability

Beta testing will determine U.S. plastic beer bottle spec(s)

Some time after a computer software code is written, but before it is commercially launched, it undergoes a period of beta testing. During this period, select users try the program out, spot bugs in it, figure out function shortcuts, criticize the program's performance and let the developer know what they like and don't like about the software.

April 30, 1999

Containers

Fomo tracks many happy returns

A tracking system better controls Fomo Products' fleet of returnable containers holding foam insulation chemicals. That helps the company save up to $60ꯠ/yr.

April 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging focus for HBA Global Expo

Packaging and components for health and beauty aids will be prominent when HBA Global Expo opens at New York's Javits Center, June 8 to 10.

April 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Fire gives snack baker a clean slate

Fire claimed Pretzels, Inc.'s Indiana headquarters plant on Christmas Eve '97. By the following August, a new plant with a streamlined packaging room had risen from the ashes.

April 30, 1999

Cartoning

Company brochure

A color brochure from ESS Group (Bangor, PA) gives an overview of companies the group represents and the filling, capping, wrapping, cartoning, case packing and palletizing machinery they provide.

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