Secondary Packaging

Retorted food pouches ready for market push

Knauss and Esskay introduce foods in retorted pouches without foil for retail. StarKist Seafood sells a foil-based pouch of tuna to foodservice accounts. Will others follow suit?

January 31, 2000

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Conveying & accumulation

Contract packager blends vf/f/s systems

Unusual integrated blending scale systems enable a California contract packager to fill as many as nine different individually quick-frozen vegetables into a single bag.

January 31, 2000

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Zepf, Inc A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: Shrink bundler

Designed for the pharmaceutical industry, Zepf Technologies’ (Clearwater, FL) FA-27-DL shrink bundler wraps 300 bottles/min—full or empty, with double outserts—without disorienting the containers.

December 31, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Molded pulp moves into new markets

The use of molded pulp as a dunnage or commodity material in packaging goes back to World War I. But only in the past few years have packaged goods manufacturers begun to design molded pulp to meet specific applications.

December 31, 1999

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Case packer provides Bacardi with rum on the run

A new case packer helps Bacardi Bottling package 10-count cartons of 50-mL rum miniatures into corrugated shippers.

December 31, 1999

Cartoning

Tom's uses 'natural' look to package wellness products

Packaging design strengthens brand identity for Tom’s of Maine’s new natural wellness line.

December 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

Tiny patch 'dots' pharmaceutical landscape

Noven Pharmaceuticals employs a new cartoner to help introduce an estrogen replacement therapy patch sold to pharmacies and merchandised free as physician samples.

December 31, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Palletizing adhesives

Palletite® adhesives from H.B. Fuller (St. Paul, MN) offer an alternative to stretch wrap for unitizing pallet loads of corrugated containers. The adhesives offer point-to-point adhesion that keeps loads from shifting and allows removal of partial loads without disturbing pallet stability.

November 30, 1999

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Machine builders debate PC vs PLC control

Part two of our report on PC vs PLC control for packaging machinery, from the perspective of design engineers at leading packaging machinery builders.

November 30, 1999

Sustainability

Dow Corning sings praises of palletizer/stretch wrapper combo

Combo systems at the end of three silicone sealant cartridge packaging lines save space, money and materials at the company's Elizabethtown, KY, facility.

November 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

HMR package serves dual markets

Southern BBQ restaurant chain and mail-order business employs the same dual-ovenable CPET tray and attractive paperboard carton to introduce frozen dinners sold both in hospitals and grocery stores.

November 30, 1999

Flexible packaging

Foodservice packs at twice the speed

Canadian coffee marketer sees growth in coffee filter-packs used by guests in hotel rooms. A new flow wrapper lets the firm aggressively pursue this foodservice market niche.

November 30, 1999

Secondary Packaging

Labeler minimizes downtime at bundler

Dairy Crest of Gloucestershire, England, is the first to install a Harland Zeta thermal-print-and-apply labeler from Harland Machine Systems (Manchester, England).

November 30, 1999