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Flexible packaging
Mini pouch machine
The Stick Pack from Hassia (Somerville, NJ) is a mini pouch vertical form/fill/seal machine for liquids, gels, or powders that produces up to 400 packages/min, depending on the number of lanes per index.
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Tamper-evident machinery
Foil-lined cap
Cap Snap (San Jose, CA) has extended its line of 38-mm plastic closures to include a foil-lined cap. The Foil-Lined STN closure provides added freshness and security while retaining original features of the STN cap.
October 31, 1995
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Containers
Ice cream cup
Tetra Laval Food Hoyer (Pleasant Prarie, WI) has introduced the Tetra Cup. Targeted for ice cream applications, the polyethylene/ paperboard/polyethylene structure may soon be used for margarine or cultured products, according to the company.
October 31, 1995
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Sustainability
Marketing book
"The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Tubes" explores the evolution of packaging throughout history and reveals ways in which manufacturers use marketing strategies to sell their products.
October 31, 1995
Sustainability
Spicing up a line
Specialty Brands revamps its Durkee Spice products for a more contemporary look. A switch from PP to PET, new sizes, graphics and freshness coding add flavor to a well-established line.
October 31, 1995
Specialty Brands1 decision to change its caps to a custom green color is an attempt to maintain brand consistency. Label pane
Protective/transport packaging
Protective cushioning
AirfloPac(TM) is a patented protective cushioning from IntePac (King City, Ontario, Canada). It consists of reusable multi-chambered LDPE parts with "venturi" air-flow restricting tubes.
October 31, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Shrink wrap system provides big retail thrust
A shrink wrapper overcomes heat and packing obstacles to bundle two 24-count trays of mr. big candy bars, enabling Neilson Cadbury to satisfy Canada's retailer demand for a 48-count pack.
October 31, 1995
The three photos above show two 24-count trays shrink-wrapped into a single retail pack (top), a single 24-count tray with prot
Conveying & accumulation
Waste not, want more
Laidlaw automates sorting of post-consumer recyclables at its Schaumburg, IL, material recovery facility. First-of-its-kind system separates plastics into four categories.
October 31, 1995
Steel-banded bales of separated recyclables are brought to this staging area prior to shipment to users of these recovered mater
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Maybelline 'caps' thermoforming technology
High-cavity tooling and a unique tandem trim operation with special matched-metal cutting dies produce a new inner cover for lipsticks. Shrink label provides security for products sold without blister cards.
October 31, 1995
The new inner cap for Maybelline lipsticks not packed in blister cards is a thermoforming and trimming achievement. This is espe
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Some like it hot
Upstart cap molder Acadiana Plastics Manufacturing outfitted its injection molders with hot runner manifolds and a quick-change mold system for faster cycles, quick changeover and better quality PP caps.
October 31, 1995
For each machine, 34 separate temperature controllers 9;one for each cavity and two for the manifold 9;maintain precise temperat
Flexible packaging
Pouches link looks, functionality
Pouches made of water-soluble film are giving Cincinnati-based Ciba-Geigy a competitive edge in the market for turf management products used by golf course groundskeepers.
October 31, 1995
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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Squeeze tube filler
ProSys (Middlesex, NJ) has released Models HVF RT112 and HVF RT212 tube filling machines. These fillers can run most tube materials and closure types to speeds of 70 tubes/min.
September 30, 1995
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Cartoning
Chewing up market share
New pack and product size necessitate a $7 million investment in packaging machinery for Warner-Lambert Canada. A 4.4 percentage point gain in market share justifies investment in customized flow wrappers, laser coders and display carton overwrappers.
September 30, 1995
The laser-coded roll of printed material unwinds (from left to right) into the first station within the flow wrapper for sealing
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