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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Secondary Packaging
New press gains prove more than cosmetic
A new sheet-fed press at All Packaging boosts the converter's efficiency, speed, uptime and print quality. Neoteric Cosmetics is the first to benefit, obtaining vibrant folding cartons for its retail cosmetics.
December 31, 1998
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Containers
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Tubed Products (Easthampton, MA) has opened a new 90ꯠ sq' facility in Oxnard, CA. The increased production capability will service pharmaceutical, cosmetics and health and beauty product manufacturers on the West Coast.
December 31, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Small package poses big challenge
Ecoly Intl. was in a sticky situation. The company needed to downsize its 10-oz Oak Tree Finishing Aerated Hairspray into a 1.7-oz version for use in a travel kit, without losing rich package graphics and extensive copy.
December 31, 1998
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
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
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