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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Steam shrinking shows it's more than just hot air
Using hot air to shrink full-body labels to containers is fairly common. An alternative method, however, seems to be gaining steam. In the past month, Packaging World editors have heard of several applications where steam is the preferred method to shrink-apply labels to containers.
March 31, 2000
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Conveying & accumulation
Lassonde innovates with Italian aseptic filler
Squared off in shape like its 2-L predecessor, Lassonde’s 420-mL PET bottle is aseptically filled at 400/min. It’s sold in a three-pack format that’s new to North America.
March 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Red Devil cranks up convenience
Home repair is made easy with caulk and sealants in squeeze tubes. A patented device fitted on the tube’s end allows consumers to roll up the empty end of the tube, thereby ensuring that virtually all of the product can be used. Red Devil uses the tubes for eight SKUs, including kitchen and bath caulk, wallpaper seam repair, tile adhesive and tile grout.
March 31, 2000
Flexible packaging
Bag filler/sealer
The Sak Pak bag filler and sealer from O/K Intl. (Marlborough, MA) fills 10 to 110 lb of free-flowing powders and grains, as well as liquids, into open-mouth bags that are premade of paper, plastic or woven fiber.
March 31, 2000
Converting equipment
Competition touts top tubes
A shave gel tube that doubles as a razor was named the most innovative among the winners of the 1999 Tube of the Year competition sponsored by the Tube Council of North America (New York, NY).
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Corrugated comes over the Internet
Building materials supplier Owens Corning is convinced that procurement can be conducted most efficiently and cost effectively via reverse auctions over the Internet.
March 31, 2000
Flexibles
Streaming videos demo equipment online (sidebar)
Capsule reviews
March 31, 2000
Sustainability
Plastic's beckoning to beer
Two European brewers are pushing ahead with barrier coatings on PET bottles while a third is expanding its use of coinjected multilayer technology.
March 31, 2000
Converting equipment
Blow molder comes to Pennzoil's 'Rescue' (sidebar 2)
The art and the angles
March 31, 2000
Converting equipment
Blow molder comes to Pennzoil's 'Rescue' (sidebar 1)
Tough to find suppliers
March 31, 2000
Converting equipment
Blow molder comes to Pennzoil's 'Rescue'
PVC Container companies create new blow molding technology to provide Pennzoil with high-barrier bottle for a gasoline substitute. Flexible spout and closures complete package on an incredible timetable.
March 31, 2000
Sustainability
Euro brewer debuts 'glass' inner-coated PET bottle
New technologies for beer in plastic are moving forward. Among the newsiest launches is in Sweden, where Spendrups Brewery of Stockholm in March introduced its Norrlands Guld beer in 500-mL (16.9 oz) high-barrier Glaskin bottles. Developed by Tetra Pak (Geneva, Switzerland), the proprietary Glaskin technology relies on a vacuum deposition process to coat the inside of blown PET bottles with a clear layer of silicon oxide.Spendrups is the first to use the technology on a commercial basis.
February 29, 2000
Flexible packaging
Clever packages take flexibles to a new level
Sleeves for propane cylinders win Flexible Packaging Assn.'s President's award. Other FPA winners include pouches of grease for fifth wheels, recyclable ream paper wraps and protective air cushion packs.
February 29, 2000
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