Secondary Packaging

Around the Industry

Aaron Thomas Company Inc. has opened an 87ꯠ-sq-ft manufacturing, packaging, and warehousing facility in Bolingbrook, IL, southwest of Chicago.

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Additives, coatings & inks

Tube product line

Greiner Bio-One offers a new versatile tube product line in a variety of resins and sizes. The polystyrene and polycarbonate offer ideal clarity for optical measurements, while polyethylene and polypropylene display superior thermal and chemical resistance with minimal binding characteristics.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Laminated tube for cosmetics

IntraPac offers a new size of plastic laminated tubes for health, beauty, and personal care applications. Tube is 2” in diameter and can be decorated in a variety of techniques: 4-color process printing, spot color printing, and hot-stamp foil.

August 31, 2005

Containers

WD-40 develops the last straw

WD-40 Co., San Diego, CA, delivers a revamped 12-oz can with a permanently attached, built-in straw tube.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Bulk filler improves cookie packaging

David’s Cookies, Fairfield, NJ, is a major supplier of frozen, preformed, unbaked cookies to a range of foodservice customers. Until late 2004, the company had been manually packing its frozen-dough cookies into 20-lb bags in boxes for shipment.

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Flexible packaging

ISU gains big assists from industry (sidebar)

ISU’s R&D lab has a lot on the ball

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Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID is scalable

Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable. See video

August 31, 2005

Containers

A batch processing approach to packaging

Arla Foods’ automated order system lets production orders flow through its new fresh-milk bottling lines in batches.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Rx distributor turns to internal RFID (sidebar)

New drug bottle ‘Targets’ safety concerns

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Three events, one-stop 'shopping'

On the heels of a successful Packaging Services Expo 2005, next year’s version will run side-by-side with two new events—Packaging Containers & Materials Expo and the Packaging Summit Conference.

August 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

BIB tap maintains sterility in use

A patented dispenser tap that keeps low-acid bag-in-box products aseptic after opening draws end-user interest, including Dale’s Kitchen for soup stocks.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Starbucks new bottle is changeover friendly

A new bottle from Starbucks is designed with production in mind.

August 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Thermal inkjet-- crisp codes in real world plants at affordable costs

HP technology runs in tough environments and delivers system savings from uptime. Simple operation lets line operators handle setups.

August 31, 2005