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Containers
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Automated truck unloading
At this Rolling Rock brewery, pallets of bulk glass are pulled automatically from trucks with no forklift intervention.
September 30, 2001

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Filling/capping, dry
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Filling and pasteurizing
At this Rolling Rock brewery, the line's two 108-valve fillers (from SIG Beverages) sit side-by-side. Shortly after filling and capping, bottles enter a double-deck pasteurizer, after which they pass through two down-bottle ejectors.
September 30, 2001
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Closures
Welch's opts for multilayer PP, easy-spread cap
Like other juice marketers, Welch’s has typically relied on heat-set polyethylene terephthalate when converting from glass to plastic. But the firm changed that pattern when it came time to design a plastic alternative to its 10-oz single-serve glass containers. This time, the Concord, MA-based firm opted for a translucent polypropylene bottle rather than clear PET.
September 30, 2001
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Labels
Havana brews enticing shape, graphics
The allure of Havana’s sophisticated nightlife emerges through the image of an exotic woman to become the icon that dominates the full-body shrink label adorning Havana, an iced coffee from North American Beverage Co., Ocean City, NJ.
September 30, 2001
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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Achievements
Moen Industries recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with an open house and bar-b-que celebration. —Greif Bros. Corp. (Delaware, OH) has struck a global supply agreement with The Dow Chemical Co.
September 30, 2001
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Flexibles
Domestic acquisitions, agreements
The Mead Corp. (Dayton, OH) and Westvaco Corp. (Stamford, CT) have agreed to create a global company involved in packaging, coated and specialty papers, consumer and office products, and specialty chemicals.
September 30, 2001
Closures
Relocations, expansions
Goodman Packaging Equipment (Waukegan, IL) has moved its headquarters to a new building located at 1081 Northpoint Boulevard, Waukegan, IL 60085; Phone: 847/596-9000, fax: 847/596-9001.
September 30, 2001
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Containers
Promotional graphics
To bolster its Grand Prix Formula One Sweepstakes, Stamford, CT-based Beck’s North America introduced a special, limited-edition 16-oz collector aluminum beer can and multipack racing packaging.
September 30, 2001
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Flexible packaging
Four-side-sealer homers for Clean Team
Clean Team, a San Diego maker of cleaning card products, speeds changeovers and lowers labor costs with an automated sealer. Pitched area allows for easy filling of liquid cleaning solution into the package.
September 30, 2001
Shown here is a sampling of Clean Team's packaged cleaning cards that are inserted into magnetic stripe readers, point-of-sale c
Conveying & accumulation
Big containers, big output done Nature's Way
Nature’s Way Purewater fills 180 1-gal containers/min and packs them into 3-count cases at a rate of 60 cases/min. New $4 million, 2000’-long line includes a case packer that accepts 2.5-gal containers, too. See in-plant video
September 30, 2001
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Conveying & accumulation
Machinery brings the future to Latrobe
The front end of this glass line for 12-oz Rolling Rock beer is practically an operator-free zone. Laser-guided vehicles replenish packaging materials on demand. See in-plant video
September 30, 2001
The system shown here includes a robotic positioner that picks a bundle of 12-count corrugated shippers, orients the bundle, cut
Containers
PET developments refresh beverage and dairy applications
AriZona Beverages moves into a hot-filled PET longneck bottle, PET helps launch a carbonated dairy drink, PET/nylon/PET resists carbonation loss for Perrier’s new bottle, and an additive extends shelf life for the first PET-bottled milk in the U.K.
September 30, 2001
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Containers
OK International: Case liner
The OK 220 servo case liner from O/K Intl. (Marlborough, MA) can run at speeds to 24 cases/min. Machine makes bags from a roll of polyethylene tubing and places them into a case, drum, or tray.
August 31, 2001
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