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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
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
Rigid: Page 310
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
Cartoning
Monobloc boosts Akorn's capabilities
Sterile filling of opthalmic solutions becomes automated with PLC-controlled filler/plugger/capper that quadruples speed. Special part-feeding systems enhance clean-room packaging.
September 30, 1996
Flexible packaging
Pack Expo turns packaging concepts into production realities
Packaging containers tend to be the milestones by which packaging advances are measured. But thousands of packagers coming to Pack Expo 96 (November 17-21, McCormick Place, Chicago) will assure you that there would be no visible packaging advances without the unseen contributions of packaging equipment.
September 30, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Robotic case packing sweetens Brach & Brock's bottom line
A top-load robotic pick-and-place machine replaces manual case packing of bagged candy at Brach & Brock Confections, saving the confectioner $150ꯠ in annual labor costs.
September 30, 1996
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Volumetric pump
The T-94 5-gal double acting pump from Thiele Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) is one of the first specifically designed to fill 5-gal and 3-gal pails of paint or similar product in a single cycle.
August 31, 1996
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