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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Cartoning
Multipacking
Case/Tray Packing
Robotics
Conveying & accumulation
Tray packer shrinks changeover time
Tray packing/shrink wrapping line for canned vegetables provides 55-tray/min speeds along with fast, no-tool changeover for Furman Foods.
July 31, 1998
Multipacking: Page 38
Secondary Packaging
Elsner Eng. Works: Rewinding/overwrapping line
Elsner Eng. Works (Hanover, PA) has redesigned its HS-800/OWH-800 rewinding and overwrapping production line. Designed for gift wrap, tissue, kraft paper and selected films, the rewinder can be used for core, coreless or sheet-stiffened rewinding.
July 31, 1998
Flexible packaging
Tiger thermoforms paper/plastic structure for cheese
Swiss company is believed first to use cellulose in a thermoform/fill/seal package for shelf-stable packs of cheese. The 20-g packs of cheese were introduced in the U.S. in June.
July 31, 1998
Flow wrapping
Flexo savings are in the bag
Bake-Line Products lowers print and package development costs while shortening lead times by switching from gravure-printed pre-made bags to flexo-printed rollstock.
July 31, 1998
Cartoning
Adhesives help Chelsea Milling stick to quality
Two hot melts and one cold-glue adhesive are instrumental in allowing this Michigan miller to package more than a million cartons every day. Bundling and tray packing have been upgraded, too, and ink-jet printing of corrugated shippers is a big improvement.
July 31, 1998
Cartoning
Video cassette packaging hits fast forward
Semi-automatic labeling, cartoning and shrink wrapping of video cassettes just couldn't keep pace with Provac's rapid growth. New equipment was the answer.
June 30, 1998
Cartoning
Small changes deliver big-time for Pharmacia & Upjohn
Pharmaceutical firm saves $650ꯠ/yr at its Kalamazoo, MI, packaging facility by implementing simple, yet cost-effective quick-changeover procedures on 30 packaging lines.
June 30, 1998
Labels
The incredible power of shrink packaging
Shrink packaging of bottles, jars, cups and other rigid containers has amazing product merchandising and protection powers. While assuring the wholesomeness of food and beverages contained, shrink packaging can also transform a container frog into a packaging prince.
May 31, 1998
Flexible packaging
Future shock (sidebar)
Blue-sky packaging ideas
May 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
Packagers tell insects: 'Stop bugging us!'
New EPA rule simplifies the procedures for gaining a tolerance exemption.Arrival of insect repellent approved for use in food packaging heralds new era of chemical coatings that ward off bugs and germs.
May 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
Symbols help P&G help consumers
To combat consumer confusion when repurchasing feminine protection products, P&G adds recognizable symbols to its Always-brand package.
April 30, 1998
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Lozenges are blister-packed, flow-wrapped
Seeking to make the packaging for its Throaties medicated lozenges more consumer-friendly, Ernest Jackson, based in Crediton, Devon, England, switched from a foil bag-in-carton to an overwrapped blister card.
April 30, 1998
Secondary Packaging
Food innovations on display at U.K. show
Two notable packages uncovered at Pakex 98, held recently in Birmingham, England, both come from food marketers. One is for soup, the other for a product designed to look like Chinese take-out food.
April 30, 1998
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