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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Closures
Skippy squeezes into new packs
Unilever Bestfoods’ well-known Skippy brand could redefine the peanut butter category with two stunning new flexible packages.
March 31, 2003
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Closures
Shaped aluminum bottle energizes Snapple's Elements
Aluminum containers continue to boost the energy drink category. Elements Beverage division of the Snapple Beverage Group, White Plains, NY, is using marketing alchemy to switch bottles of its Elements energy drinks from glass to aluminum.
March 31, 2003
Closures
Color-shifting tottles make a splash
A colorant used in two-layer HDPE tottles and other containers of Fiji Blend tanning products produces an attention-getting color shift...just like a tan.
March 31, 2003
Flexible packaging
Co-packing suits these packagers
Representatives from Stonyfield Farms, DreamPak, and SipTop describe why their firms pack for other companies, and how they price those services.
March 31, 2003
Flexible packaging
Secondary packaging is primary for ARI
Side-seal horizontal wrappers and PVC film help contract packager ARI thrive by meeting the secondary packaging needs of its customers, which include many of the nation’s largest consumer products companies.See in-plant video
March 31, 2003
Flexible packaging
SouthPack serves up three pavilions
Running April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center, SouthPack will feature three pavilions. In the Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Packaging Pavilion, visitors will be able to source specialty equipment, medical-grade materials and supplies, kits, blister packs, and TE containers.
March 31, 2003
Closures
Shaped aluminum bottle energizes Snapple's Elements
Aluminum containers continue to boost the energy drink category. Elements Beverage division of the Snapple Beverage Group, White Plains, NY, is using marketing alchemy to switch bottles of its Elements energy drinks from glass to aluminum.
March 31, 2003
Conveying & accumulation
Indexing conveyor
Nalbach Engineering (Countryside, IL) released the Model ICS-8 indexing conveyor with product settling system. Combined with Nalbach’s line of servo driven auger and cup fillers, it’s a complete, integrated, filling station, ideal for the consistent and accurate dispensing of a broad range of powders, granulars, flakes, and other free-flowing products.
March 31, 2003
Closures
Micro Flo: Filling and capping of agrichemical products
From an infeed table, F-style containers enter this 10-station indexing filler-capper from PACK'R North America (Batavia, IL).. Containers are filled at several stations before a closure is applied and torqued on in a two-step process.
February 28, 2003
Conveying & accumulation
Micro Flo: Indexing bottles of agrichemicals
At Micro Flo, a worker places empty F-style containers onto this infeed conveyor table. At the end of the table, suction cups grab six containers and transfer them onto a perpendicular conveyor that carries them single file towards an indexing filler-capper.
February 28, 2003
Conveying & accumulation
Leominster plant hosts open house
While the economy continues to struggle, there are indications that it hasn’t reached a complete standstill. That’s the impression Packaging World had after attending a March 19 open house at the expanded North American headquarters facility of DT Packaging Systems (www.dtindustries.com) in Leominster, MA.
February 28, 2003
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Servo auger filler/bagger
The Phaser Bagger from EaglePack (Oakland, CA) will be shown at the 2003 SCAA coffee exposition in Boston, held April 25-28.
February 28, 2003
Conveying & accumulation
National Manufacturing Week: Notes from the field
Special Projects Editor Dave Newcorn spotted many interesting new technologies, including machine vision, at National Manufacturing Week in early March. Here are some of them.
February 28, 2003
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