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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials
Big Mac to move to new pack
McDonald's reportedly will be packing its Big Mac® sandwiches early next year in a compostable hinged-lid container. Made of limestone, potato starch, water and fibers, the containers are designed to decompose and dissolve in water.
October 31, 1998

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Filling/capping, dry
Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc: Auger filler
From Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) comes a new brochure on its line of Digitronic® auger fillers used to package dry materials in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
September 30, 1998
Pw 21547 Fro Spe Pac Mac 17
Containers
Trip leasing program
Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA) has developed new literature outlining its trip leasing program for users of IBCs and drums. Called "It's as easy as 1-2-3," the new brochure outlines the process companies can take to trip-lease containers for industrial applications.
September 30, 1998
Sustainability
Blisters clear enviro-hurdles
Fox 40's mechanically bonded blister packs retain the clarity of a clear blister while complying with European recycling mandates. Card costs drop 20%, and new machine boosts productivity by 50% while halving labor.
September 30, 1998
With Fox 40?s new blister pack (above), four ?posts? in the blister protrude through holes in the card. The posts are then crush
Conveying & accumulation
Robot gains 'eyesight'
Guided by a simple, compact vision system, a robotic depalletizer picks three 65-lb bags of seed at a time, handling even the most irregular loads without failing.
September 30, 1998
Sustainability
Sweetener packaging is sweetened by reusable IBCs
Handling of liquid sweeteners is greatly improved since multiwall corrugated totes were replaced by collapsible, reusable 275-gal IBCs.
September 30, 1998
The product, used to make a tea latte, is packaged in 32-oz aseptic bricks for retail sale and 6-L bag-in-box aseptic containers
Flexible packaging
All-Fill Inc: All-Fill Inc: Auger system
All-Fill (Exton, PA) has introduced a color catalog sheet featuring its servo motor direct-drive Multi-Fill auger systems. These provide fast, accurate, multi-positioned dispensing of powders and viscous products typically encountered with vf/f/s machines, horizontal thermoformers, strip packers, pocket vacuum formers, pouch makers and rotary cup machines.
September 30, 1998
Pw 21610 All Ext P Ahas 13
Flexible packaging
Innovations in plastics help foods flourish
Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.
September 30, 1998
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Conveying & accumulation
Mount Rose weighs gains from vf/f/s equipment
Two custom vertical form/fill/seal machines help frozen pasta co-packer Mount Rose Ravioli handle the output from processing equipment, increase its speeds and save more than $200ꯠ/yr through reduced labor and product giveaway costs.
September 30, 1998
A side view of one of Mount Rose?s two vf/f/s machines (left) shows the scale buckets that feed a custom-designed discharge hopp
Flexible packaging
Aseptic PE/EVOH/PE bottles hold shelf-stable infant formula
Infant formula isn't a category where you normally find a lot of packaging innovation. But this summer has brought us two interesting packaging advances in the "mother's milk" replacement business.
September 30, 1998
Pw 21624 Whithemulpla 1
Conveying & accumulation
Bringing a glacier to the consumer
On Vancouver Island, a brand new PET bottling line fed by an in-line stretch blow-molding machine is packaging right from a glacier some of the purest water on the planet.
September 30, 1998
The monoblock rinser/filler/capper combines 24 rinsing heads, 24 fill nozzles and six capping stations in a compact frame
Containers
Career fairs: How some companies 'precruit' (sidebar)
How recruiters work the career fair
September 30, 1998
Showing strong interest in MSU packaging students is electronics manufacturer Hewlett-Packard. The company is currently support
Flexibles
Career fairs: How some companies 'precruit'
Many companies look for packaging professionals at schools with packaging curricula, and some successful companies begin the process before students even graduate.
September 30, 1998
At Kraft Foods? Tarrytown, NY, development laboratories, co-op students work side-by-side with experienced professionals like Ri
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