Flexibles

High-Clarity Film

ITW Richmond Technology offers Compos-a-vac® 40 (CAV-40), a new 3.2-mil film laminate that combines high clarity with a moisture barrier for clean, transparent moisture-barrier protection of sensitive products during transport and/or storage.

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Containers

Sensor Products Inc: Material Surface Mapping

Tactilus® surface pressure mapping technology from Sensor Products aids in research and development and quality control for evaluation of where and how a tube fatigues, as well as when labels or appliqués delaminate.

July 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Thompson Scale: Filler Upgrades

Thompson Scale now offers the 4693 Filler Upgrade, available for a variety of filling and packaging equipment, including machinery that loads product into bags, boxes, tubs, totes, drums, or bulk bags.

July 31, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

P.E. USA, Inc: Roll-Fed Labeling

From P.E. USA comes the Rollmatic labeling system, designed for roll-feeding labels onto full or empty cylindrical and shaped bottles. Running at speeds from 100-1ꯠ bpm, features include automatic label self-alignment, servo motor control for film cutting length, rotary blade on the cutting drum, and gripperless label transfer using a vacuum cylinder.

July 31, 2006

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Flexible Jug

General Packaging Equipment offers its Flexible Jug™, a reclosable jug produced from roll stock on vf/f/s equipment. The company says it offers considerable savings in material costs for products sold in bulk from 2 lb to 25 lb.

July 31, 2006

Sustainability

Polymer advances 'resin-ate' with packaging

Consumer- and technology-driven packaging trends come together at the National Plastics Exposition.

July 31, 2006

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Achieving options and operations advantages

Dutch meat processor improves packaging efficiency and flexibility to meet growing, changing product demands.

July 31, 2006

Containers

Early Adapter

Among the very first to commercialize DSC’s two-piece steel aerosol container was Chase Products. The Broadview, IL-based firm fills its Champion brand glass cleaner in the new container as well as its Vista Cleer XP product, a professional glass cleaner that is available exclusively through Sommer & Maca Industries, a leading distributor of supplies to the glass and stone industries.

July 31, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

'Bottle Can' Takes To Steel

Initially developed in Japan and made out of PET-coated aluminum, the ‘bottle can’ now comes to the U.S. in a two-piece steel format made in a shiny new plant.

July 31, 2006

Containers

Bottle glossary

Alpha Packaging provides a bottle glossary with succinct packaging definitions.

July 31, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Packaging Lessons Learned

Readers share experiences of inventiveness, resourcefulness, and persistence.

June 30, 2006

Containers

Mexican processor says si to new option

Del Fuerte’s shelf-stable vegetables and sauces make smooth move from cans and jars to revolutionary Tetra Recart retort carton packaging.

June 30, 2006

Containers

FDA still has no confirmed, permanent commissioner

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates most of the nation's foods and all its drugs, many packagers closely watch the agency.

May 31, 2006