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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Filling, Capping & Closing
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Converting equipment
Chemical maker's new IBC closes the loop
A durable container’s recycling program prompts a chemical manufacturer to invest in new IBCs to transport its chemicals across the country.
February 29, 2000
Rigid: Page 271
Flexibles
Chemicals take to water-soluble film
Water-soluble film played a key role in a recent packaging innovation at Chemenergy of Albany, NY.
February 29, 2000
Filling/capping, dry
All-Fill Inc: Auger filler
The servo-driven B-400SV auger filler from All-Fill (Exton, PA) fills powder, granular and liquid products in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and chemical industries.
February 29, 2000
Sustainability
Food packs sparkle in DuPont Awards
From an Ocean Spray package that won the Diamond Award to a vacuum-insulated container for foods and other temperature-sensitive products, this year’s DuPont Award winners are an eclectic and innovative bunch.
January 31, 2000
Filling/capping, dry
Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc: Auger filler
Spee-Dee’s (Sturtevant, WI) Servo 3500 auger filler is controlled by a commercial PC and operator interface, which means it is not dependent on expensive proprietary components and costs less than competitive products, according to the manufacturer.
January 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
CCL Container: Decorative tubes
Cosmetics, toiletries and other personal-care products packaged in a tube can now use the Optical Effects™ tubes from CCL Container (Swedesboro, NJ).
January 31, 2000
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
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
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