Pw 14786 Fiji Group
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.
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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
To better utilize its tube filling equipment, Stonyfield Farms fills its own yogurts as well as yogurt for other companies.
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
Unprinted PVC film unwinds upward to a film former just above a conveyor that moves two cartons at a time into the film in this
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
Pw 14810 South Pack
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
Pw 14767 Elements
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
Pw 14966 Nalbach Ics
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
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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
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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
Several management representatives from DT Packaging Systems addressed attendees at the company's March 19 open house in Leomins
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
Pw 14814 Phaser
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
Pw 14833 Natl Mfg Wk
Flexibles
Flexible packaging tube/pouch
Softube from Switzerland’s Obrinova AG Packaging, a subsidiary of H. Obrist, is available from Construct Packaging Associates (Manchester, MO).
February 28, 2003
Pw 14886 Obrist Softube
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
Pw 14892 Brown Haley Mocha Roca
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