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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
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
Rigid: Page 274
Filling/capping, dry
Material Transfer & Storage, Inc: Container dumper
The 180° Container Dumper from Material Transfer & Storage (Allegan, MI) is designed to dump powders or cereal-like foods from containers into hoppers or processing equipment.
September 30, 1999
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Two-pronged attack in case-ready meats
Some supermarkets like vacuum skin-packing for case-ready meat, while others prefer modified-atmosphere master packs. Why not offer both, asks this Denver meat packer.
September 30, 1999
Cartoning
Tasty Baking takes a bite of automation
Automated packaging lines have transformed the sixth floor at thelegendary Philadelphia bakery. Flowrappers, cartoners and case packers take center stage in the new lines.
September 30, 1999
Containers
Frito-Lay munches on savings
In the last year, Frito-Lay has saved 10% in costs through increased productivity and improved inventory control provided by a new weighing/packing system found at the last Pack Expo in Las Vegas.
September 30, 1999
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
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
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