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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Flexible packaging
Pouches stand up for DuPont awards
For the second year running, stand-up pouches were prominent among winners in the DuPont Awards competition. Markets from around the world are represented in this 10th installment of the annual competition.
October 31, 1996
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Cartoning
Mary Kay unscrambles labor-intensive line
An automated bottle unscrambler saves Mary Kay $120ꯠ/yr in labor costs on itsBody Care packaging line. Newer filler accommodates a variety of bottle shapesand sizes, cap configurations and liquid product viscosities.
October 31, 1996
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Food retailers like OPS tub for in-store applications
Wilkinson extrudes and thermoforms a two-piece tub with a snap-fit seal that keeps food fresh. Resin consistency and the right copolymer modifier help a lot.
October 31, 1996
Containers
Bottle shape builds brand
Bottled water producer Avalon Beverage Company, Glen Allen, VA, is attempting to differentiate its imported spring water by switching from a stock to a custom proprietary PET bottle.
October 31, 1996
Containers
Supplier news: International agreements
Hoover Materials Handling Group (Alpharetta, GA) has licensed technology from Mauser (Bruehl, Germany) to produce and sell an intermediate bulk container made from recycled PE in the U.S.
October 31, 1996
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Design draws a bead on strong sales
The emergence of thousands of "reenacters," those participatory history buffs who restage old battles in full period dress, has created a growing need for the kind of black gun powder used in the days of the musket and powder horn.
October 31, 1996
Converting equipment
Tropicana tries shelf-stable OJ in PET
Hot-filled orange juice in 1-gal heat-set PET bottles have been selling at a brisk pace at club stores nationwide since Tropicana launched them about a year ago.
September 30, 1996
Cartoning
Robotics deliver Rx for manual cartoning
Automated set up, packing and labeling of cartons containing antibiotic I.V. bags saves Baxter Healthcare nearly $2 million/year in labor and material costs.
September 30, 1996
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Monobloc boosts Akorn's capabilities (sidebar)
Improved plugging & capping
September 30, 1996
Converting equipment
Squeeze and spread functions boost bottle
Mentor, OH-based Darworth Co. took advantage of August's National Hardware Show in Chicago to feature FI:X® wood patch in a bottle that literally stands on its head to be noticed.
September 30, 1996
Secondary Packaging
Horizontal cartoner
The continuous-motion A Thiele PSC+ horizontal cartoner from Thiele Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) features a toolless changeover and runs four different sized tubes and cartons.
September 30, 1996
Closures
Laminated tubes
Teledyne Packaging's (Chester, PA) new line of plastic laminated collapsible tubes are designed to replace traditional monolayer or coextruded tubes used in the cosmetics, personal care and health and beauty industries.
September 30, 1996
Controls & Machine Components
Trash bag packer
The BHL automatic case packaging machine from Amplas (Green Bay, WI) is designed for packing bulk rolls of trash bags into corrugated cartons. After manufacturing, rolls are conveyed to the machine and a pneumatic arm grips a preselected amount of rolls and lowers them into an erected box at speeds to 40 cycles/min.
September 30, 1996
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