Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

ARC-Diversified: Filling/capping cans with edible oils

Cans enter the Serac 16-valve rotary filler single file and then move through filling and capping at speeds to 107 4-L cans/min.

July 31, 2005

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Conveying & accumulation

Drinktec preview: what's new in labelers?

A number of new servo labelers take center stage at the big drinktec beverage manufacturing show, September 12-17, Munich, Germany.

July 31, 2005

Containers

Packaging board

M-real USA Corp.

July 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID solution is scalable

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

July 31, 2005

Closures

Colgate-Palmolive Nepal...

...might have to close Kathmandu plant due to Maoist insurgent guerrillas destabalizing the area. Local ancillary suppliers of tubes and closures, etc., expected to be hurt as well...

July 31, 2005

Flexibles

FLEXIBLE BULK PACKAGING DEMAND TO REACH $7 BILLION

Cost benefits and increased performance efficiency are expected to drive U.S. demand for flexible bulk packaging to $7 billion in 2009, a growth of 3.4% per year.

July 31, 2005

Containers

New plant food package reduces product returns

Retailers were returning a percentage of EnviroSafe Lab’s Dynamite Plant Food unsold because the product’s tubular containers cracked during distribution or became weathered over time when exposed to rain and the sun’s heat on the shelves outside of lawn-and- garden centers.

July 31, 2005

Closures

Anheuser-Busch to double aluminum beer bottle capacity

According to St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, demand from retailers, wholesalers, and consumers for its beer in 16-oz aluminum bottles is so strong that the brewer will double its capacity for the package by this fall.

July 31, 2005

Labels

Bottle sports a gripping redesign

Coca-Cola North America introduced in April a new bottle design for its Powerade sports drink that's easier to hold and grip.

July 31, 2005

Flexibles

Package redesign precipitates White Rain sales gain

Diamond Products Co. reports a 16% increase in first quarter 2005 sales of its White Rain-brand shampoos and conditioners, following a packaging redesign.

July 31, 2005

Labels

IFCO's asset tracking produces results

A digital-based color wheel track-and-trace technology for IFCO’s RPCs brings ‘tremendous’ benefits.

July 31, 2005

Closures

Aluminum bottle reinforces diet aid uniqueness

Diet capsules move to an aluminum bottle to foil counterfeiters and employ two TE features to assure consumers.

July 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

An automation hole in one

Wilson Sporting Goods puts golf balls in shrink sleeves three times faster since installing conveyorized system that now runs smoothly 24/7.

July 31, 2005