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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Gallo gets shapely
Two new bottle shapes from Ernest & Julio Gallo of Modesto, CA, are shaking things up in the retail wine rack. The brands involved are Gossamer Bay and Ernest & Julio Gallo.
November 30, 1998
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Sustainability
Brewers pouring into plastic
Brewers around the world have been on the fence about plastic bottles. Suddenly they're commercializing a variety of plastic barrier structures.
November 30, 1998
Closures
Miller's plastic beer bottle solves first of three marketplace puzzles
Those of us who thought Anheuser-Busch would be the first American brewer to market beer in plastic bottles at retail were surprised when, in early November, A-B turned out to be no more than a very interested observer as Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, commercially introduced three beers in unique, five-layer, oxygen-scavenging plastic bottles from Owens-Illinois' Continental PET Technologies, Inc.
November 30, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Equipment brews benefits for Anheuser-Busch
From depalletizing to shipping, nearly identical packaging equipment on two new lines boosts efficiency at the brewer's Houston, TX, plant.
November 30, 1998
Filling/capping, dry
All-Fill Inc: Powder filling system
All-Fill's (Exton, PA) automatic powder filling system runs at speeds from 35 to 80 cpm on rigid container filling lines. A checkweigher directs filling heads to increase or decrease fill amount.
November 30, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Creative compensation keeps packaging people
To attract good packaging people, companies must pay top wages without leaving behind existing packaging employees. Alternative compensation practices can also help.by David Newcorn, Senior Editor
November 30, 1998
Containers
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
CCL Container (Rosemont, IL): James E. Cooper, vp, sales and marketing, tube div.
November 30, 1998
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Silver cleaner polishes its look
Silver Blue's complete overhaul eliminates leakage and breakage while improving esthetics.
November 30, 1998
Containers
Composite canister ousts steel can for nuts
Gone are 603 x 408 steel cans for foodservice nut products at Azar Nuts of El Paso, TX. Foodservice vice president Gary Stewart couldn't be happier.
November 30, 1998
Coding, Printing & Labeling
B&H Labeling Systems: Roll-fed labeler
The Model 2600 roll-fed labeler from B&H (Ceres, CA) labels containers measuring 2" to 5" in dia and 6 oz to 3 L in volume at speeds to 500 cpm.
October 31, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
T & S Equipment Co.: Drum gripper
T&S Equipment (Angola, IN) introduces the Drum Gripper, attachable to forklifts via a safety chain that's included. Once secured to the forklift, the Gripper's curved arms fit tightly under the drum rib, ready to lift either 30- or 55-gal steel drums weighing up to 1귔 lb.
October 31, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
Powell Systems Inc: Net weight scale
Designed with bulk produce packagers in mind, Powell Systems' (Youngstown, OH) AWC-HD linear automatic net- weight scale can make weighments as large as 60 lb, operating at a rate of 17 weighments/min or faster for loads of 20 lb or less.
October 31, 1998
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Teamwork pays off for everyone
Wise and its film suppliers work together to develop a new metallized oriented polypropylene film that can handle the demands of potato chip packaging.
October 31, 1998
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