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Sustainable Packaging
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
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Containers & Closures
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Veryfine grabs for added sales with new bottles
The latest hot-filled plastic bottle from Veryfine has a unique grip molded into the sidewalls just above the top of the colorful full-wrap film label.
October 31, 1998
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Closures
Candy container for captured creatures
Amurol Confections had kid collectors in mind with its Bug City package, a polystyrene jar filled with 2.4 oz of insect-shaped candy tarts. The Bug City product is not new.
October 31, 1998
Containers
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
Montebello Packaging has opened a 37ꯠ sq' facility in Ottawa, Canada, and a 40ꯠ sq' facility in Lebanon, KY, both for manufacturing aluminum and laminate tubes.
October 31, 1998
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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