With its new twin-head filling system (left), Mid-Florida Mining can more evenly blend cat litter and scented crystals. Both
Conveying & accumulation
Twin-auger filler is pick of the litter
Automated filling and capping of jugs containing cat litter helps Mid-Florida Mining reduce giveaway by 83% and labor costs by 45%. Increased efficiency helps push new product offerings and increase sales.
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Flexible packaging
New Year's promise: Internet packaging data
Imagine this. You get a sample of a stand-up pouch used to market salad dressings in Australian food stores. Marketing is pushing to introduce such a product/package ASAP.
December 31, 1995
Cartoning
Targeting a convertible cartoner
Private label OTC drug maker adds a cartoner designed specifically for the pharmaceutical industry, handling both glue and tuck-style cartons.
December 31, 1995
In additional to single cartons, PFI produces overwrapped multipacks consisting of two to six cartons. The cartoner will also i
Labeling
Playing 'chicken' with food labels
USDA dares food processors to put 'mechanically separated poultry' in ingredient panels.
December 31, 1995
The ingredient statement of this Lipton soup package is likely to change if USDA insists on food makers identifying ?mechanic
Flexible packaging
Aquaprin pouch doubles as a cup
When Health Corp. of Rocky Mount, NC, launched Aquaprin aspirin pain reliever/antacid late last year, it wanted a pouchstock rigid enough to let consumers mix the powdered product with water right in the pouch and then use it as a drinking cup.
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Closures
Legs stand out
Graphics on the new California Legs® line of women's shaving products boast the first four-color offset printing to be done on tubes, says the firm that makes and markets the product, Belvedere Intl., of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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Containers
Super solution to sticky situation
Research shows a significant degree of consumer dissatisfaction in using Super Glue can be traced to packaging, says Loctite Corp., manufacturer of Super Glue and other adhesives.
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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Vertical bagger
The Model V-250 vertical f/f/s bagger from Rovema (Lawrence-ville, GA) packs most free-flowing products, including granulates and powders, at speeds to 80 bpm.
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Conveying & accumulation
Liquid packaging brochure
Horix Mfg. (McKees Rocks, PA) offers literature on its expanded line of packaging machinery in these full color brochures. Horix technology incorporates unscramblers, rinsers, fillers, cappers, labelers, packers, wrappers, storage silos, vibratory extractors, automatic elevators, and conveyor systems.
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Conveying & accumulation
Mexican Coke bottler gets in shape
Coca-Cola's 'true contour' PET bottle is a big success in several parts of Mexico. Promotora blow-molding plant decorates with a shrink label of OPP applied with glue.
November 30, 1995
Side by side, the true contour (right) has a convex label panel that requires a shrinkable label. The straight-wall contour (le
Labels
Mayfield milks nostalgic design
Now that Coca-Cola has awakened marketers to the power of nostalgia with its retro-style plastic bottles for Coke and Sprite, nostalgic package design is extending to the dairy category, too.
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Flexible packaging
Beverage containers dominate DuPont awards
A flexible beverage container and a hot-filled, shelf-stable juice pouch stand out at the ninth annual DuPont awards competition. Environmental categories and international entries again prove distinctive.
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Flexible packaging
Tetra Pak takes a systems approach to plastics packaging
When the world's largest international packaging supplier decides to expand into new packaging markets, packagers around the world-as well as the competition-had better take notice.
November 30, 1995
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