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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Cartoning
Building sales through versatility
Tokyo-based cosmetics giant Kosé installs two modular, quick-change bottling lines versatile enough to handle nearly 100 different bottle shapes and sizes.
January 31, 2001
Rigid: Page 261
Conveying & accumulation
Robson's assembles a honey of a line
Filling, capping and labeling jars of honey by hand was too slow at this Arizona honey maker, especially with new markets on the horizon. Automated machinery was the answer
January 31, 2001
Closures
PET pack added to mayo spread
Bestfoods has added a squeezable, clear PET container to its Hellman’s mayonnaise line, which is packaged in standard glass containers. The new 18-oz Big Squeeze container is topped off with a 0.250”-orificed polypropylene flip-top dispensing closure, pigmented in dark and light blue.
December 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Relocations, expansions
Ramsey Technology (Minneapolis, MN), has changed its name to Thermo Ramsey as part of a new corporate identity strategy; Goring Kerr (Minneapolis, MN) has changed its name to Thermo Goring Kerr; Allen Coding Systems (Minneapolis, MN) has changed its name to Thermo Allen Coding USA.
December 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Engineering software quickens product launch
Mary Kay Inc., the Dallas-based global direct-selling manufacturer of skin care and beauty products, is implementing Design-Expert® mathematical software from Stat-Ease (Minneapolis, MN) to help avoid product launch delays and unnecessary rework costs.
December 31, 2000
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Switch to PET brings icy look
United Distillers & Vintners recently replaced glass with polyethylene terephthalate for 200-mL (6.76-oz) bottles of its TGI Friday’s® On the Rocks line of ready-to-drink cocktails. The custom bottles are injection/stretch blow molded by Schmalbach-Lubeca.
December 31, 2000
Labels
Over-the-top effort solves TE challenges
Arm & Hammer’s p-s TE label for its new HDPE shaker bottle of baking soda uses two types of adhesives. The duo performs tamper-evidence while it meets regulatory requirements for foods.
December 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Efficiency gained, paper costs cut
A UK producer of chemicals used in the leather industry successfully integrated an automated packaging line and cut the cost of multiwall paper bags in the process.
December 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Effervescent tablets go 'Airborne' in tubes
Knight-McDowell Labs’ quest for an alternative to foil packaging for its effervescent tablets led to a rigid, polypropylene injection-molded container.
December 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Aseptic drug filling boasts new type of sterilization
Sterilizing a depyrogenation tunnel by means of vaporized hydrogen peroxide is a first at Organon’s recently installed vial filling line.
December 31, 2000
Tamper-evident machinery
Remedent's new package turns heads (sidebar)
The packaging process
December 31, 2000
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Remedent's new package turns heads
Manufacturer of an unconventional toothbrush addresses consumer requests and increases sales with a switch from blister packaging to a clear PETG tube.
December 31, 2000
Filling/capping, dry
Regal solution protects bottles
Chalone Vineyard of Napa, CA, is the first to benefit from a new molded fiber technology called PulpFusion. Regale claims it can reduce costs by 80% and lead time by 90% compared to other molded fiber technologies.
November 30, 2000
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