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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Containers
Valvoline valve adds elbow room
Valvoline's new line of SynPower® synthetic automotive chemicals includes two products that employ a unique new spray delivery system. The Lexington, KY-based company's Brake Parts Cleaner and Carb Choke & Throttle Body Cleaner are filled into aerosol cans and topped by a unique one-piece spray cap and tube that allows precise delivery into areas of a car difficult to access.
February 28, 1998
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Flexibles
Technical achievements shine among FPA winners
A foil-based barrier bag for industrial applications, a multilayer structure for hermetic sealing of silicone gasket strips, and a coextruded sealant film all snare FPA awards.
February 28, 1998
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Woodland Poly casts for western film business
Cast and blown film-making equipment, using metallocene resins, enable Woodland Poly to produce rugged stretch-wrap film in thin gauges for its customers in the west.
February 28, 1998
Containers
Supplier news: Achievements
ISO 9002 certification: Zellerbach, A Mead Co. (Dayton, OH), for its Novi, MI, operation; CCL Container's Tube Div. (Harrisonburg, VA).
February 28, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Foodservice bag displays retail points
Basic American Foods launches a first-of-its-kind bag for dehydrated potatoes sold to foodservice markets. Pointillistic graphics attract customers while the bag reduces secondary packaging.
February 28, 1998
Containers
Bass is bullish on beer in plastic (sidebar)
Dando at Nova-Pack '98
February 28, 1998
Flexible packaging
Agricultural winners at FPA
Two innovative flexible packages merit an 'A' for Agricultural.
February 28, 1998
Converting equipment
Twister takes a whole new shape
For its Twister brand juice beverage, Tropicana North America has launched a 1.75-L (59.3-oz) heat-set bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate that the Bradenton, FL, firm describes as "the first heat-set, hot-filled (180°+) rectangular PET bottle" for a juice beverage in the U.S.
February 28, 1998
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
CCL Container (Don Mills, Ontario, Canada) is consolidating all of its business entities, now operating as divisions of the company and using the same corporate name and logo.
February 28, 1998
Containers
Drum containment unit
Rand Materials Handling Equipment (Pawtucket, RI) has introduced a 4-Drum Containment Unit with a removable drum pallet that allows the drums to be loaded at floor level and lifted on or off the sump base by a forklift truck.
January 31, 1998
Containers
Extended height containers
Ropak's (Georgetown, KY) Extended Height, reusable, HDPE collapsible containers with a 45" x 48" footprint are an alternative to pallets.
January 31, 1998
Sustainability
Organic labeling rules proposed
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting comments on its proposal to establish uniform federal standards for use of the term "organic" in labeling both raw and processed foods.
January 31, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
Foam dunnage computes for GT's software
Minnesota is no stranger to snow. But at GT Interactive's Plymouth plant, located in suburban Minneapolis, a far different kind of blizzard was hampering operations.
January 31, 1998
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Moisture Control Technology for Perishable Foods
EasyPak has launched Elevate Freshness, a packaging design featuring formed risers and channels, intended to mitigate moisture-related degradation.
Paper Container with Paper Bottom
PET Bottle
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