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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Containers
Postal service spends $66 million for tray handling
Last fall, the U.S. Postal Service awarded a $66 million contract for 100 robotic container loading systems to ABB Flexible Automation (New Berlin, WI).
January 31, 2000
Rigid: Page 268
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Drumming up e-business (sidebar)
Capsule reviews
January 31, 2000
Containers
Drumming up e-business
Making it easier for packagers to re-order packaging materials is an obvious way for suppliers and buyers to take advantage of the Internet. One supplier that’s doing just that is Myers Container (www.myerscontainer.com), a steel drum manufacturer.
January 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Palletizers lift Marcal's efficiency
Robotic and in-line palletizers automate what had been primarily a manual process at Marcal Paper Mills’ Elmwood Park, NJ, plant. A two-year system payback is anticipated.
January 31, 2000
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Packaging for kids at Kellogg and Dannon
When these two food processing powerhouses used existing brands as launch pads for kid-oriented new products, they were highly selective about their choice of containers.
January 31, 2000
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Supplier news: International agreements
IWKA AG (Karlsruhe, Germany) has taken over the packaging technology div. of Jagenberg AG (DĂĽsseldorf, Germany). Concurrently, IWKA has sold its defense technology div.
December 31, 1999
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Vac-U-Max: Powder conveying system
Vac-U-Max (Belleville, NJ) introduces the Model PB pneumatic conveying system for dry powders. Through a 48”-L wand and vacuum hoses, product is vacuumed from drums into feeders equipped with a discharge spout positioned above either a primary package or a tank on a filling machine.
December 31, 1999
Filling/capping, dry
Filler for thick materials
The FA Model filler from Optima Maschinenfabrik (Schwäbisch Hall, Germany) can be used for filling powdered and lumpy bulk material into rigid containers.
December 31, 1999
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Blister pack holds medical dosing device
Safe-T-Dose is an unusual dispensing product that becomes part of the package it’s inserted into to make it easy to dispense exact doses of liquid medicines without spills.
December 31, 1999
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Case packer provides Bacardi with rum on the run
A new case packer helps Bacardi Bottling package 10-count cartons of 50-mL rum miniatures into corrugated shippers.
December 31, 1999
Cartoning
Tom's uses 'natural' look to package wellness products
Packaging design strengthens brand identity for Tom’s of Maine’s new natural wellness line.
December 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Vitamin maker counts on electronic filler
Steady sales growth at Jamieson Laboratories made it obvious that a new vitamin packaging line was needed. Electronic tablet counting brings big benefits.
December 31, 1999
Closures
A spoonful of guidance makes the packaging go down
FDA clarifies aspects of just-released ‘new’ drug packaging guidance. However, industry is very anxious about upcoming ‘old’ drug guidance.
December 31, 1999
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