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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
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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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
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
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