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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
American Italian Pasta Co.: Vf/f/s on a pasta packaging line
Film is fed to the vf/f/s machine from Triangle from a floor-level unwind stand. Bags as small as 8 oz or as large as 10 lb are filled on the machine.
January 31, 2004
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Filling/capping, dry
In-line capping machine
Model CA 4000 automatic in-line capping machine from Acasi Machinery runs at speeds to 250 bottles/min. Handles cylinders, rounds, ovals, squares, and rectangles, yet standard model does not require change parts to go from one shape to another.
January 31, 2004
Case/tray packing
Case erector
Maxco Machinery Div.
January 31, 2004
Closures
Aesthetic tube packaging
CCL Plastic Packaging recently helped Slatkin & Co., a New York City-based home fragrance marketer, launch its ultra-stylized, personal care products line called Slatkin’s Body Therapy.
January 31, 2004
Containers
Belgian brewer moves fast to barrier-coated bottles
Deposit legislation in Germany spurred Martens Brewery to invest in an in-house line for making, coating, filling, and packaging of PET beer bottles.See video
January 31, 2004
Flexibles
German brewer bets big on multilayer PET
This high-volume move to multilayer PET bottles for beer sold at retail in Germany could signal a much broader acceptance of PET for beer.See video
January 31, 2004
Closures
Retooling hardware packaging
Our annual look at hardware packaging ranges from the cute (fancy seed pails) to the creatively functional (driveway sealer in an easy-pour bucket).
January 31, 2004
Flexibles
Turkey Hill's cool new label
Following a successful market test of a new insulating label that keeps cold beverages cooler, Turkey Hill Dairy plans a broader use of the novel label come spring.
January 31, 2004
Containers
Robots boost pasta packing
Four robotic palletizing cells accept a wide variety of cases from eight upstream packaging lines. Changeover of pallet patterns is done at a touchscreen.See video
January 31, 2004
Containers
Campbell's soups adopt EZO lids
Campbell Soup Co., Camden, NJ, is now converting all its Condensed Soup varieties, plus other products in 10- and 11-oz cans, to full-panel, easy-open lids.
January 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Poore: Weigh scales for salty snacks
Cross-feeder conveyors deliver snacks to Ishida 14-head weigh scales from Heat and Control. Individual load cells measure the weight of product in the scales. Integrated controls are used to select the right combination of buckets to release an accurate amount of product into a bottom-sealed tube of film.
December 31, 2003
Flexibles
Platinum Packaging Inc.: Wrapping and sealing of gift box blanks
A stack of knocked-down gift box bottoms and tops are pushed into a center-folded tube of film that provides clarity, as well as puncture and tear-resistance. The tube is side-sealed with two impulse wires. Next, a cross-sealing station employs hot-knife jaws that create a seal between the leading and trailing pack of boxes before cutting in the seal area between the packs. Packs then are conveyed through a heat tunnel. Euipment is supplied by Shanklin.
December 31, 2003
Containers
Tube Council chooses new management company
The Tube Council selected Landon, Farrey Associates as its new association management company.
December 31, 2003
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Products
Hot Melt Filling System
ProSys Fill offers the Flex Fill 120, a fully automatic hot melt filling system designed for high-speed, high-precision filling of products like deodorant sticks.
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