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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Sustainability
Luster straightens out freshness problems
This haircare producer begins filling creme relaxer into nestable yogurt-style cups with freshness seals. The switch from traditional jars not only keeps the product fresh, it aids in product display as well.
April 30, 1995
Filling, Capping & Closing: Page 77
Filling/capping, dry
Bulk net weigher
The AEF-25 automatic linear net weigher from Weighpack Systems (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) works with a wide variety of bulk products, including solids, granulars and powders.
April 30, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Obie's oval
This cookie mix marketer needed a paperboard container with a small footprint yet all the shelf impact of a round canister. An unusual oval was the answer.
April 30, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Arcadia takes major step in production
Juice and drink bottler upgrades case packing for high output, even outstripping what its palletizer can handle. A new palletizer is on the list; so is improved bottle feeding.
April 30, 1995
Filling/capping, dry
Labels, not Similac, are phony
As if Ross Laboratories, Columbus, OH, didn't have enough trouble with fake 16-oz metal cans of powdered Similac infant formula in California (see PW, March '95, p.
April 30, 1995
Additives, coatings & inks
Will UnPET expand supply of RPET?
Packagers worrying about the availability of recycled polyethylene terephthalate resin will likely be encouraged by the announcement last month that a new process for recycling post-consumer PET has been developed by United Resource Recovery Corp.
April 30, 1995
Sustainability
Sandoz coex bottle protects heart medication
The top award in container distributors competition was won by a coextruded drug bottle that keeps out light and moisture. Other winners display distributor prowess in technology, decorating and sourcing of components that meet packager needs.
March 31, 1995
Flexible packaging
Pouch production soars at Goya division
A continuous-motion pouch-packaging operation at Packaging Ltd. is nearly 200% faster and 70% more accurate than the intermittent-motion system it replaced.
March 31, 1995
Filling/capping, dry
Pasted valve bags
The Hot Dot Bag from Bancroft Bag (West Monroe, LA) is a pasted valve bag that uses hot melt adhesive for superior sift resistance. For use with finely powdered foods and chemicals, the bag eliminates puffing of the product during filling, as well as sifting during handling.
February 28, 1995
Cartoning
Automation times six at Apotex
February 28, 1995
Labeling
Similac customers unmask imposter
In what may be one of the most elaborate product/package counterfeiting schemes ever uncovered, bogus Similac infant formula has been sold from store shelves at Safeway and Pak 'n Save Supermarkets in California.
February 28, 1995
Filling/capping, dry
Multifunction controller
The Model OI100 from Hyde Park Electronics (Dayton, OH) combines a PLC, programmable limit switch, data entry keyboard and message center into one controller.
January 31, 1995
Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding
New BOPP fillm
Propafilm CK 140 from ICI Films (Chicago, IL) is a biaxially oriented PP film with good moisture, gas and flavor barriers. FDA approved for direct food contact, it is suited for dry mixes, powders, spices, candies, coffee, tea, medical device overwraps or any product requiring an anti-static surface.
January 31, 1995
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