Sustainability

How TPEs benefit consumers, brands and Mother Earth

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) provide ease-of-use, brand differentiation and sustainability benefits, Sharon Derbyshire of PolyOne told Pack Expo 2013 attendees.

October 2, 2013

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Flexibles

Leak-resistant packaging ensures a drier retail poultry case

Cryovac poultry films, bags, absorbent pads and trays allow retailers to create a more appealing display and relieve shoppers from handling wet, sticky poultry packages. Cryovac also supplies vacuum shrink wraps and tray lidding for hundreds of retail food applications.

October 2, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Eliminate preprinted corrugated cases

FoxJet's flagship line, the Trident-powered ProSeries of industrial inkjet printers, prints bar codes, date and lot codes, and other variable information directly on the side of corrugated cases, eliminating the need for preprinted cases.

October 2, 2013

Secondary Packaging

Combination shrink-wrapper/case-packer can take bottles and tubes from pucks

Patented pick and place system from Polypack can shrink-wrap hard-to-handle bottles and tubes, and use a gantry system to pack them into a case.

October 2, 2013

Protective/transport packaging

High-speed void-fill packaging system

Sealed Air Corp.'s Fill-Air Rocket Inflatable void fill packaging system is 50% faster than its predecessor model. More important, it produces three times as many bags in the first 20 seconds of production because it doesn't need time to ramp up.

October 2, 2013

Sustainable Packaging

Protective packaging made from crop waste

Restore Mushroom Packaging from Sealed Air Corp. is made from crop waste, which is just about endlessly renewable. To make it even more sustainable, it's home compostable

October 2, 2013

Secondary Packaging

Cartoner guarantees right product goes into right carton

New horizontal end-load cartoner is designed for harsh washdown conditions and has a number of advanced technologies integrated into it. Interact HMI gives operators deep access into machine conditions.

October 1, 2013

Operational Excellence

Wanted: Experts in equipment purchase and installation

JETT seeks volunteer help for its healthcare consortium. Organization offers numerous free tools that can be downloaded from its website.

October 1, 2013

Operational Excellence

U.S. House passes track-and-trace bill

H.R. 3204 now awaits Senate approval. If passed into law, the new bicameral bill would preempt California e-pedigree and give industry more time to comply.

October 1, 2013

Flow wrapping

Snack bar packaging at 500 products/min

Food producer Nature’s Path installs an automatic packaging line for its organic rice and granola bars that provides up to six times the output of its previous system.

October 1, 2013

Flexibles

Barrier bags and retort pouches open opportunities

Mondi America introduces several new paper-based bags for high-speed filling of fine powders, including a single-ply construction, and will be starting production of flexible film retort pouches for applications such as baby food and pet food in December.

October 1, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Linear slide table good for food packaging machinery

Dry-Lin SLN linear slide table system from Igus is good for food packaging machinery applications because it does away with lubricants that could become contaminants. Linear slide table can be designed with a stepper motor and encoder integrated into it.

October 1, 2013

Coding, Printing & Labeling

One platform, many print technologies

Matthews Marking Systems' Viacode print management platform for high-speed packaging lines manages messages and settings across one or several production lines or packaging locations, providing industrial printing for primary, secondary, and tertiary packages.

October 1, 2013