Conveying & accumulation

Platinum Packaging Inc.: Friction feeding for gift box blanks

Contract packager Platinum Packaging employs nearly 50 Longford friction feeders that deliver gift box blanks from a magazine onto a lugged conveyor for downstream shrink wrapping. Feeders can also be set up to deliver calendars to a plow so that another downstream feeder can insert a paperboard card into the calendar. Dong so helps provide rigidity to the calendar after it's shrink-wrapped.

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Secondary Packaging

Survey: Cartoning systems

Answer a quick one-page survey on cartoning systems. You could receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate . . .

December 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Case erector

O/K Intl.

December 31, 2003

Cartoning

Machine builder case study: Gen3 vs Gen2 machinery

Norden Pac, a maker of tube-filling and cartoning equipment, recently delivered its first Gen3 servo-driven tube-filling machine to a customer.

December 31, 2003

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Best packaging operations anywhere? Here are three...

What’s the most impressive plant you’ve ever been in? World traveler and Hartness Intl. director of market research Neville Cork has been in about 100 plants.

December 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Ergonomic vertical cartoner

SWF Companies’ Tisma Div. offers the Victory 100, a simple, ergonomically-advanced, semi-automatic vertical cartoner capable of reaching speeds to 200 cartons/min.

December 31, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

Packaging pirates avast

FDA is strongly encouraging drug manufacturers to confront counterfeiters, and to bring new technology to the agency’s attention.

December 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

How to sell a packaging machine to Unilever (or any other large CPG company)

How can a packaging machine builder sell to Unilever Home and Personal Care North America when the consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturer is making its short list of preferred suppliers even shorter?

November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Continued from Packaging World, December 2003, p. 76

The data from Alberto Culver’s ProcessPoint PDM Editor leverages an industry-standard means of encryption called SSL (Secure Socket Layer). Data is available to all Alberto Culver manufacturing sites in the United States, in Puerto Rico, Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Argentina, Chile, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, and Poland.

November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

High-speed robotic case packer

Delta-style robotic solution is suitable for high-speed packaging of frozen food products or flow-wrapped or shrink-wrapped products.

November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Machine generations explained

Bosch Rexroth Electric Drives and Controls Div. has come out with a new packaging-specific brochure that includes a graphical depiction of the three generations of servo-driven packaging machinery.

November 30, 2003

Converting equipment

Henkel cuts fees with new Sil package

The Henkel Group, Düsseldorf, Germany, has cut the costs of packaging fees on its Sil-brand stain-removing laundry powder by using a new package with a moisture-vapor-barrier built into the box.

November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Alberto Culver gains global vision with Web-enabled PDM

Alberto Culver sells hair and skin care products, food, and household products in 120 countries through 14 manufacturing sites and four product development/design centers located around the globe.

November 30, 2003