Flexibles

Unconventional packaging fuels a product launch

A nonround canister and a 12-count 'purse pack' are the package formats chosen by Mead Johnson to launch a new kind of calcium supplement called Viactiv.

May 31, 1999

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Secondary Packaging

Somewhere, over-the-counter, the FDA waits for drug packers

OTC drug makers will have to become packaging 'wizards' to fit new Drug Facts information on cartons, containers, tubes and bottles.

May 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Can packaging improve one's golf game?

An innovative plastic 'sleeve' keeps golf balls fresh while providing an excellent barrier to distance-robbing moisture.

May 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Filling in a Jiffy

Chelsea Milling's new dual-lane auger filling system produces 20 boxes/min more than the filler it replaced while cutting in half the amount of giveaway of Jiffy baking mix.

May 31, 1999

Closures

Paperboard packs award-winning punch

Award winners in this year's Paperboard Packaging Competition range from digital camera bag sleeves to catheter cards to bagel cartons.

May 31, 1999

Containers

Anchors aweigh

U.S. pushes for total rewrite of international maritime packaging rules for hazardous materials.

May 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

ProSys Innovative Packaging Equip.: Tube filler with HMI

ProSys (Webb City, MO) offers its LVF tube fillers equipped with a touchscreen human-machine interface (HMI). Upgraded control provides visual display for systems operation, as well as diagnostic alarms, on-line service manual, recommended spare parts and assembly diagrams.

May 31, 1999

Containers

New tube attracts Asian market

A sleek new tube carries on the Elizabeth Arden tradition of understated elegance. The 4.2-oz tube of Visible Whitening Foaming Cleanser is made solely for the Asian market--Japan, Korea and the Asia-Pacific regions.

April 30, 1999

Flexibles

New product clearly calls for a tube

When Minneapolis-based Lamaur Corp. added Extra Hold Styling Gel to its Willow Lake® line of hair care products, management wanted to keep the look of the other containers in the Willow Lake line.

April 30, 1999

Containers

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

CP Louisiana, Inc. (New Orleans, LA), General Steel Drum Corp. (Charlotte, NC), Nesco Container Corp. (Fenton, MO), North Coast Container Corp.

April 30, 1999

Containers

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Tubed Products, Inc. (Easthampton, MA): James Farley, dir., new business development.

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

Containers

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

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

April 30, 1999