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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Conveying & accumulation
Suppliers recognize packagers' training needs
In describing their own programs, suppliers acknowledge shortcomings and reflect the criticisms made by their customers. Time allocated for training remains the most pressing need, they agree.
October 31, 2000
Rigid: Page 259
Cartoning
Filler meets tough standards at Stonyfield (sidebar)
Cartoner delivers downstream
October 31, 2000
Cartoning
Filler meets tough standards at Stonyfield
Stonyfield Farm is so confident about the potential sales of its Yo Squeeze organic yogurt for kids that it’s purchased a second vf/f/s machine. Each machine produces 200 tubes/min, with an unusual ‘butt seal.’
October 31, 2000
Closures
Dueling technologies spell success (sidebar)
ASIS, CC lines illustrated
October 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Dueling technologies spell success
At Japan’s Daiwa Can, one aseptic PET line uses in-line mold/blow/fill. Right beside it, another line blows bottles and sterilizes them in a second operation just before filling.
October 31, 2000
Cartoning
Suiza dairy touts 'squishy' bottle
A soft LDPE bottle and ‘sipper protrusion’ make it easy for kids to hold and drink single-serve milks. Suiza’s Country Fresh dairy introduces two distinct brands of milk in the containers.
October 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Coors rolls out the barrel can
Pub barrel cans of Coors Killian’s Red are wrapped in heat-shrink OPP at a rate of 250 cans/min by a cut-and-glue labeling system located downstream from the can shaper.
October 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Quintuplets!
New automated labeling system delivers five labels onto each glass bottle of Labrot & Graham’s premium bourbon whiskey, boosting output, reducing labor costs and improving placement accuracy.
October 31, 2000
Tamper-evident machinery
Smuckers Magic Shake
Smucker’s® Magic Shake™ instant milkshake mix has a new trick up its sleeve. Using a custom flip-top PP closure and fluted PP bottle with mix packets inside, the package provides easy mixing and drinking of the beverage.
September 30, 2000
Closures
First pasterized, wide-mouth PET
A heat-set PET jar from Vlasic Foods Intl., Cherry Hill, NJ. is produced by Schmalbach-Lubeca. The jar is said to be the first commercial pasteurizable wide-mouth PET food jar.
September 30, 2000
Converting equipment
The softer side of Unilever
Just reaching store shelves nationwide is a redesigned package for 100-oz Whisk, All and Surf laundry detergent brands from Greenwich, CT-based Unilever.
September 30, 2000
Filling/capping, dry
Sterile vial filler
Designed for the production of injectables in sterile conditions, M.A.R.’s (Milan, Italy) M50 is said to fill 420 vials/min. To meet the special needs of sterile rooms, the unit’s mechanical parts are simple and easily maintained, reducing the number of machine panels that need to be opened.
September 30, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Relocations, expansions
Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc. (Gordonsville, VA) has opened a new 54ꯠ sq’ facility in Beaver, WV. The $6 million satellite plant includes a new polyester film extrusion line that will add 16 million lb of film and sheet output.
September 30, 2000
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Moisture Control Technology for Perishable Foods
EasyPak has launched Elevate Freshness, a packaging design featuring formed risers and channels, intended to mitigate moisture-related degradation.
Paper Container with Paper Bottom
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