Tamper-evident machinery

From soup to sauce, easy-grip PET

Hot-filled plastic jars with pinched-grip sides took center stage in May as Seneca Foods and Campbell Soup both unveiled intriguing new containers with similar-looking grips.

May 31, 1998

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Net-weigh filling machines

Fill-Weigh (Plainfield, IL) has introduced a portable two-head net-weigh filling machine for jugs and pails of liquid products of varying viscosities.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Closure designing

Injection-molded closure design and manufacture is the subject of a brochure from Stull Closure Technologies (Randolph, NJ). Lists sizes and part numbers for dispensing plugs, captive hinged closures, snip tips, push-pull dispensers, tube caps, twist open/close dispensers, can fitments and miscellaneous closures.

April 30, 1998

Sustainability

Injection-molding resin

Recently commercialized by Chevron Chemical (Houston, TX), HiD9004 is an HDPE injection-molding resin designed primarily for producing 5- to 7-gal pails and their lids.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Cosmetics are big winners in packaging competition (sidebar)

Additional NACD award winners: Industrial & Automotive category

April 30, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Bulk weigher/auger filler

AMS Filling Systems' (Malvern, PA) Model A-110-Lynx net weigher bulk-and-dribble auger filler fills powders and granular products as well as thin or viscous liquids, in weights from 1 oz to several hundred lb.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Tubes of the year!

This year's winners of the Tube Council Awards carried a strong health and beauty theme, as well as a focus on innovation.

April 30, 1998

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Federal 'medicine' for drug errors may be hard to swallow

Agencies are now considering requirements for unit-dose packaging and bar coding of containers to reduce the potential for medication errors.

April 30, 1998

Closures

Cosmetics are big winners in packaging competition (sidebar)

Additional NACD award winners: Household Chemicals

April 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Keebler becomes a canister convert

When consumers showed how much they liked resealable composite canisters for Animal Crackers, Keebler responded by launching other products in that package format.

April 30, 1998

Converting equipment

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Russell-Stanley (Red Bank, NJ) will open a combination plastic drum blow-molding/recycling plant in Allentown, PA.

April 30, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Food innovations on display at U.K. show

Two notable packages uncovered at Pakex 98, held recently in Birmingham, England, both come from food marketers. One is for soup, the other for a product designed to look like Chinese take-out food.

April 30, 1998

Containers

Hazmat shipper

As an alternative to steel or fiberboard drums in lab pack and hazardous material applications, Con-Quest Products (Elk Grove Village, IL) has introduced CoPack(TM) LP.

March 31, 1998