Flexible packaging

Secondary packaging is primary for ARI

Side-seal horizontal wrappers and PVC film help contract packager ARI thrive by meeting the secondary packaging needs of its customers, which include many of the nation’s largest consumer products companies.See in-plant video

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Flexible packaging

SouthPack serves up three pavilions

Running April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center, SouthPack will feature three pavilions. In the Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Packaging Pavilion, visitors will be able to source specialty equipment, medical-grade materials and supplies, kits, blister packs, and TE containers.

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Columbia/Okura opens training facility

Columbia/Okura (Vancouver, WA) has built a state-of-the-art facility designated specifically for testing, training, and palletizing demonstrations.

February 28, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Case palletizer

Alvey Systems (St. Louis, MO) introduces the 780 case palletizer, a low-speed, high-level infeed palletizer with a compact footprint, heavy-duty construction, and flexible layout options.

February 28, 2003

Sustainability

Technical Innovation shines (sidebar)

Highest Achievements

February 28, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Automated stretch wrapper

The new WLPA-200 automated stretch wrapper from Wulftec (Ayer’s Cliff, Quebec, Canada) is a fully-automated turntable stretch wrapper that has a pneumatically activated “cut and wipe” system that eliminates the need to attach and cut film.

February 28, 2003

Flexible packaging

FPA honors innovation

Hershey’s pudding packs and technology for self-venting trayed entrees, first commercialized by Smithfield Packing, earn Highest Achievement honors from The Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2003 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition.

February 28, 2003

Secondary Packaging

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The new “Automation Solutions for Food and Packaging” brochure from Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) highlights its integrated packaging systems for cookers, portioning, case packers, palletizers, bottling, egg packing, cartoning, and other applications.

January 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Q&A: Dealings with vendors

Kenton L. Jorgenson is plant operations manager at Baldwin Filters in Kearney, NE, a leading maker of filters for cars, trucks, and other vehicles. Here he talks about relationships with packaging vendors.

January 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Quick-change overwrapper

Digital Media Automation (Poway, CA) introduces its Super Overwrapper with electronic microprocessor timing and control, versus mechanically driven cams, levers, and linkages.

December 31, 2002

Cartoning

Web Plus: Sites

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December 31, 2002

Case erect/seal

Plug-and-pack a reality (sidebar)

Advances in network, software standards

December 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

Cold-temperature tape

HP232 cold-temperature hot-melt carton sealing tape has a specially-formulated hot-melt adhesive that can withstand application temperatures as low as 20 deg F and service temperatures as low as –30 deg F.

December 31, 2002