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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Cartoning
Packaging marketplaces take center stage
This year will be recorded as the year of the Internet "packaging auction gold rush." Auction--and classifieds--Web sites are popping up faster than you can say "network protocol" in the great race to establish Internet-based marketplaces for selling packaging equipment and materials.
September 30, 1999
Rigid: Page 271
Conveying & accumulation
Marking for the millennium
Y2K compliance, cost cuts and improved print quality top the list of reasons why a Kentucky soft drink bottler changed to a new coding system for its glass bottles.
September 30, 1999
Flexibles
Kellogg cereal in linerless gabletop carton
In recent years, cereal marketers have turned to flexible pouches and bags to differentiate their products from traditional bag-in-box offerings. Kellogg, however, took a different tack in introducing Special K Plus(TM).
September 30, 1999
Converting equipment
Custom bottle 'juices' Odwalla
Last month, beverage marketer Odwalla, Inc. introduced a custom-designed bottle for its 450-mL and 325-mL refrigerated juices that it says extends shelf life by 40% compared to a previous bottle.
September 30, 1999
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
IWK Packaging Machinery Inc: Tube filler
The TFS 80 tube filler from IWK Packaging Machinery (Fairfield, NJ) features precision servo drives, no-tool changeover and multiple closing systems.
August 31, 1999
Filling/capping, dry
AMS Filling System Inc: Multihead Filler
The A-610 multihead filler from AMS (Malvern, PA) fills rigid containers with virtually any dry or liquid products at speeds to more than 50 cpm. With memory storage for 54 products, the PLC-controlled machine offers optional bulk-and-dribble operation, bottom-up filling, and vibration to settle product in containers.
August 31, 1999
Additives, coatings & inks
Mixing container
Lameplast (Novi di Modena, Italy) has introduced a plastic container (resin type is not identified) that allows the user to mix a powder with a liquid and drink from the bottle.
August 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
Circle Packaging Machinery Inc: F/f/s systems
Allen-Bradley controls have been added to Circle's (Green Bay, WI) vertical and horizontal f/f/s systems for packaging liquids, powders, moist towelettes, medical devices and other small, rigid products in 4-side-sealed pouches.
August 31, 1999
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Vf/f/s system
Eliminating forming tubes and sealing jaws, Wright Machinery (Uxbridge, England) employs a carousel to carry formed bags through separate filling and sealing stations on its Pacwright 200 vf/f/s system.
August 31, 1999
Converting equipment
Flexible tubes
By using injection molding rather than extrusion and reducing the number of steps in the converting process, Zestron Research (Mt. Eliza, Australia) says it has cut the costs of squeeze tubes by more than 50%.
August 31, 1999
Containers
How European culture drives packaging (sidebar)
Environment goals tougher
August 31, 1999
Sustainability
Putting a labeler to the test
Test kit maker Artel uses a new labeler to speed production and meet FDA standards.
August 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Y2K fever makes bulk foods sales sizzle
For the millions of people worried about the new millennium, timing is everything. The race is on to obtain bulk foods packaged with oxygen absorbers.
August 31, 1999
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