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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Sustainability
Reusability wins awards
The Ron Hayter Awards, for plastic packaging designed with environmental impact in mind, were announced November 8. Sponsored by the Environment and Plastics Institute of Canada (EPIC), headquartered in Don Mills, Ontario, Canada, the awards program is in its fifth year.
January 31, 1995
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Labeling
Neck band quenches thirst for savings
A heat-shrinkable polyvinyl chloride neck band, used by New Orleans, La.-based Sirocco Enterprises to package Pat O'Brien's(TM) cocktail drink mixes, has reduced material costs and increased sales.
January 31, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Squeezing out productivity
An adjustable guiderail system allows juice producer Hansen's Juices to maximize output, minimize downtime. Sizing up and down lets line focus on "just-in-time" technology.
January 31, 1995
Sustainability
Revamped Bottle Bill Could Be Worth Cost, Study Says
A new study on the costs and benefits of a national bottle bill conducted for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that the social benefits of deposit legislation would slightly outweigh the costs-provided a least-cost system were adopted.
January 31, 1995
Flexibles
Laminated paperboard cures distribution headaches
Wooden crates couldn't consistently protect Plymouth Tube's costly containers of stainless steel tubing. New paperboard packs protect both product and company image.
January 31, 1995
Closures
Jar holds what bag could not
When Minnesota-based K-Tel Intl. introduced its KleenSilver plus(TM) tarnish remover system-sold internationally through retail, direct response television and catalog-they tested a polyethylene bag for packaging the system's powdered activator.
January 31, 1995
Conveying & accumulation
Coca-Cola's efficiency soars with ultrasonics
Ultrasonic proximity and motion control sensors improve efficiency and reduce downtime at Coca-Cola Bottling Consolidated's Mobile, AL plant.
January 31, 1995
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Cotton inserting machine
Modular/king Packaging's (Pine Brook, NJ) cotton wool inserting machine provides accurate insertion into solid dosage pharmaceutical containers at speeds to 120 bottles/min.
December 31, 1994
Flexible packaging
Pasta plant extraordinaire
The only way for this new pasta producer to meet the needs of three different market segments is to have a packaging operation designed for maximum flexibility.
December 31, 1994
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Trapped coupons free Maybelline sales
Maybelline's special promotion of blister-packed cosmetics entices consumers with redeemable fanfolded coupons that are trapped between two SBS cards.
December 31, 1994
Conveying & accumulation
Empty-bottle handling is no picnic
The lightest of the PET bottles filled on Pepsi's new line weighs just 27.5 g. Controlling these empty containers at high speeds is difficult to say the least.
December 31, 1994
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Quick-change bottle feeder
The FL-200 linear bottle feeder from Hoppmann (Chantilly, VA) can handle large bottles up to 2L. Takes bottles from an elevating supply hopper and unscrambles them for downstream filling, capping and labeling.
December 31, 1994
Labels
Coppertone's new label is a clear winner
Schering-Plough decided to bring in-house new p-s labeling of its suncare products. Along with special labels, the company needed labeling equipment-and also machine vision and ink-jet printing.
December 31, 1994
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