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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
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
Rigid: Page 273
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
Conveying & accumulation
Capsule Web site reviews
Designing & sharing packaging specs on-line (sidebar)
October 31, 1999
Cartoning
Renovation reaps rewards for yogurt maker
New cup filling, accumulating, coding, cartoning and case packing equipment help Stonyfield Farm double yogurt capacity at its Londonderry, NH, headquarters facility.
October 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
Equipment 'Powers' stick-pack production
Fullerton, CA-based ConAgra Grocery is among the first to use a slim stick pack, for its Sidewalk Caf/ instant cappuccino. Contract manufacturer/packager The Power Group packs the product on Japanese equipment.
October 31, 1999
Conveying & accumulation
Guzzlers bring new gear to Twin Mountain
When fruit-flavored Guzzlers proved popular, this bottled water marketer moved quickly to install both new bottle-making equipment as well as a new packaging line.
October 31, 1999
Converting equipment
Carlsberg's plastic beer bottle adds barrier
Just a few months after introducing a refillable beer bottle made of polyethylene naphthalate in Denmark (see Packaging World, Sept. '99, p. 10, or packworld.
October 31, 1999
Flexible packaging
Cloud connects to auto splicing
Chicagoland contract packager ups efficiency by adding an automated splicer onto a rollstock-driven, high-speed hf/f/s pouch machine.
September 30, 1999
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