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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
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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
Rigid: Page 235
Flexibles
Flexible packaging tube/pouch
Softube from Switzerlandâs Obrinova AG Packaging, a subsidiary of H. Obrist, is available from Construct Packaging Associates (Manchester, MO).
February 28, 2003
Flexibles
Candy and coffee team up
If Seattle-based Starbucks is synonymous with fine coffee, Brown & Haley, Tacoma, WA, has a similar cachet with its Almond Roca candy. Beginning this year, the two organizations are teaming up as B&H produces Mocha Roca Coffee Buttercrunch in distinctive packaging for exclusive sale at Starbucks outlets.
February 28, 2003
Flexibles
Thermoforming proves swell for Jo-El
âHardware manufacturers were not known for offering consumer-friendly packaging in the past,â admits Benny Vestergaard, logistics manager of Jo-El Electric A/S, Odense, Denmark.
February 28, 2003
Flexibles
PLASTIC AND PAPER MARKET TRENDS
In its new study Paper versus Plastics in Packaging, Cleveland-based Freedonia Group reports that total demand for paper and plastic in competitive packaging markets is projected to increase 1.6% annually to 21 billion lb in 2006.
February 28, 2003
Containers
Web Plus: Online purchasing of corrugated to grow
Representatives of three major manufacturers say that corrugated box makers need to aggressively cut costs because of pressure from the major consumer-packaged-goods companies and the ongoing evolution of online bidding for box business.
February 28, 2003
Sustainability
Technical Innovation shines (sidebar)
Highest Achievements
February 28, 2003
Flexible packaging
Technical Innovation shines
Food packaging was well represented among the winners in the Technical Innovation category of this yearâs FPA awards competition.
February 28, 2003
Flexible packaging
Printing packs a punch
Winners of FPAâs Printing Achievement awards were noted for advances in CTP technology, VOC-free inks, display impact, ânuanced color tonesâ via gravure printing, and complex distortion printing capabilities.
February 28, 2003
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Filling and closing machine
The Contiline linear, continuous-motion liquid filling and closing monobloc style machine from the Kugler Div. of Optima Packaging (Green Bay, WI) has 6 rotary piston pumps and a centrifugal sorting device that conveys the containers to the capping area.
February 28, 2003
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
ARC issues pharma report
Just in time for the Interphex show, ARC Advisory Group has released a new Insight report analyzing the business drivers for Gen3 packaging automation in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
February 28, 2003
Flexible packaging
FPA honors innovation
Hersheyâs pudding packs and technology for self-venting trayed entrees, first commercialized by Smithfield Packing, earn Highest Achievement honors from The Flexible Packaging Assn.âs 2003 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition.
February 28, 2003
Closures
Capri Sun launches 'bottle can'
In February, Tarrytown, NY-based Kraft Foods Beverages Division introduced Capri Sun Island Refreshers in a 16.5-oz aluminum âbottle can.â
January 31, 2003
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