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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
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
Rigid: Page 269
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Consumers 'Agree': redesign a success
An unusual back-panel hologram label helps newly relaunched line of hair care products achieve phenomenal sales growth.
December 31, 1999
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
PneumaticScaleAngelus: Liquid filler
With fill-height accuracy to ±0.2", the redesigned Pneumaflow® Filler from Pneumatic Scale (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) positions the product supply directly above the fill heads so that fewer tubes are used to deliver the product.
November 30, 1999
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Machine builders debate PC vs PLC control
Part two of our report on PC vs PLC control for packaging machinery, from the perspective of design engineers at leading packaging machinery builders.
November 30, 1999
Sustainability
Dow Corning sings praises of palletizer/stretch wrapper combo
Combo systems at the end of three silicone sealant cartridge packaging lines save space, money and materials at the company's Elizabethtown, KY, facility.
November 30, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
HMR package serves dual markets
Southern BBQ restaurant chain and mail-order business employs the same dual-ovenable CPET tray and attractive paperboard carton to introduce frozen dinners sold both in hospitals and grocery stores.
November 30, 1999
Flexible packaging
Foodservice packs at twice the speed
Canadian coffee marketer sees growth in coffee filter-packs used by guests in hotel rooms. A new flow wrapper lets the firm aggressively pursue this foodservice market niche.
November 30, 1999
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Printer furnishes improved productivity
A furniture hardware distributor uses a thermal-transfer printer for bar codes, graphics and part numbers on its bagged hardware to cut costs and increase production.
November 30, 1999
Containers
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
St. Laurent Packaging Corp. (Richmond, VA) will invest $1.1 million in a new bulk box laminator, to be installed in its Baltimore bulk packaging facility by the middle of next year.
November 30, 1999
Cartoning
Flexible bag becomes all wet
Bag serves as a self-contained, disposable dehumidifier. Calcium chloride in a top portion absorbs moisture, that drains into the bag's lower portion. Filling machinery saves labor costs for DampRid.
October 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
Favorable market conditions foster growth in flexibles
Flexible packaging material sales are expected to reach nearly $18.1 billion this year, a 3.7% increase from 1998. Converters expect the surgical/medical markets to show the strongest growth during the next five years.
October 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Rexam Closures & Containers: Rexam Closures & Containers: CR closure and tube
TubeLoK from Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) and Cebal Tubes North America is a CR closure and tube concept. The package meets the new Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations for products that may contain lidocaine or dibucaine and come in a tube.
October 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Designing & sharing packaging specs on-line
If you want to share your packaging specs with colleagues or vendors, visit www.webpkg.com. The site's tagline says it all: "Design packaging.
October 31, 1999
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