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Controls & Machine Components

Portola Packaging, Inc: Portola Packaging, Inc: Loader/unloader

Portola's (San Jose, CA) CapSnap® RoboLoader(TM) uses ABB Flexible Automation robot technology to load and unload 5-gal refillable water bottles to and from racks, crates and pallets at speeds to 2겨 bottles/hr.

November 30, 1999

Pw 19672 Por San Jos Ca 20

Converting equipment

Carlsberg's plastic beer bottle adds barrier

Just a few months after introducing a refillable beer bottle made of polyethylene naphthalate in Denmark (see Packaging World, Sept. '99, p. 10, or packworld.

October 31, 1999

Pw 19880 Jusafewmon 1

Converting equipment

PEN strikes again

Coatings and multilayer structures, not polyethylene naphthalate, have commanded center stage lately when it comes to plastic barrier bottles for beer (see Packaging World, June '99, p.

August 31, 1999

Pw 20201 Coaandmulstr

Fomo tracks many happy returns

A tracking system better controls Fomo Products' fleet of returnable containers holding foam insulation chemicals. That helps the company save up to $60ꯠ/yr.

April 30, 1999

Users spray foam from the returnable containers onto everything from buildings (shown) to refrigerated trucks.

Coca-Cola taps PET to launch water

After months of speculation, water in plastic bottles from Atlanta, GA-based The Coca-Cola Co. is the real thing in the U.S. The pale blue-tinted polyethylene terephthalate bottles provide a distinctive appearance for Dasani, which the company expects to launch nationwide this spring.

February 28, 1999

Pw 20863 Aftmonofspe 1

Flexible packaging

Pouch versatility stands out

A canteen-like pouch for liquids or powders, a mouthwash sample pouch distributed inside newspapers, and resealable stand-up pouches for an insecticide and plant food all earn recognition from the Flexible Packaging Assn.

February 28, 1999

Bottle-to-bottle PET recycling beckons in Germany

German mineral water and soft drink marketer Rosbacher installs a first-of-its-kind stretch blow molder and seeks to popularize closed-loop recycling of PET beverage containers.

January 31, 1999

Four crates are filled with each cycle of this machine. Each gripper aligns its bottle so that when bottles land in the crate, l

Brewers pouring into plastic

Brewers around the world have been on the fence about plastic bottles. Suddenly they're commercializing a variety of plastic barrier structures.

November 30, 1998

Black-suited bodyguards (left) are a highly visible component in Karlsberg?s efforts to promote its 12;2-L plastic bottle. Poin

Kiwi Coders Corp.: Two-panel coders

Kiwi Coders Corp.

Kiwi's (Wheeling, IL) Series 450 and 460 case coders are designed to mark on top, side, bottom or two adjacent panels of a case. Marking wheels, secured by a locking knob, can be changed without tools simply by twisting the knob.

November 30, 1998

Pw 21248 Kiw Whe Il Ser 16

Converting equipment

Heat resistance leads to refillable PEN

Having learned valuable lessons from a returnable PEN bottle used by a sister company in Uruguay, Coca-Cola Germany introduces a new container made of homopolymer PEN.

October 31, 1997

This 63-g refillable bottle (left) made of homopolymer PEN, developed by Coca-Cola for its mineral waters, is washed at 80?C (1

Recycled content: Is the loop broken?

Part two of our exclusive look at recycled-content plastic packaging reports how some packagers justify using recycled resin, even in down markets. Plus, evidence that the "closing the loop" issue won't go away soon.

June 30, 1997

Pw 23349 Cok Maralspoi 1

PEN polymers lure beverage marketers (sidebar)

Beer in PET, PEN bottles studied

May 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Bottling water for millions

Tak Fat now supplies pure bottled drinking water to eight million consumers in China's Guangzhou area. The next target is the total Guangdong province of 69 million, and then on to the rest of the country. Integrated 5-gal line delivers 400 bph.

May 31, 1997

Once the 5-gal jugs have been sanitized, they are automatically conveyed around a corner and into the filling chamber (left). Wi

Additives, coatings & inks

Dual-pump pack minimizes waste

Introduced in Mexico last September, Colgate's dual-pumping toothpaste dispenser is unique for several reasons, says Bob Mack, associate director of technology at Colgate Palmolive's Global Packaging Group.

February 28, 1997

Pw 23856 Intin Mexlas 8

Sustainable Packaging

Enviroconcerns fade

In what was its final consumer research survey before shutting its doors on December 31, 1996 (see Packaging World, Jan. '97, p. 2), the Council on Packaging in the Environment (COPE) found that the environment is less of a concern for consumers than in previous years, though it's still considered important.

January 31, 1997

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New bottle packers help Modelo deal with refillables

Southern Mexican brewery installs high-speed rotary bottle packers that are now used throughout Modelo's system. Efficency soars even with returnable cases of marginal quality.

November 30, 1996

As a group of bottles is conveyed right to left in the case packer, one of the eight heads of gripping bells moves into position

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

In Europe, packaging take-backs are hot

Environmental regulation of packaging has become a hot item outside the U.S. this year. More than 20 countries worldwide now have some form of "producer responsibility" law on the books or in the works.

October 31, 1996

The European Union?s Ecolabel symbol (top) can be used on packages that meet its standards. The Green Dot (far left) has been us

Flexible packaging

Testing the power of PEN

Tests of hot-filled jam in a jar and pasteurized beer in bottles are among the latest signs that PEN's packaging potential may soon be realized.

June 30, 1996

Shown at interpack 96, this half-liter returnable beer bottle was filled for test purposes by Mayr Brewery of Germany

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