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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Cartoning
Multipacking
Case/Tray Packing
Robotics
Conveying & accumulation
Displaying a concern for retailers' needs
Fremont custom-designs a new type of display-ready, film-wrapped shipper around the needs of supermarket customers. A new case-packing/shrink-wrapping line makes the design a production reality, paid for by materials savings.
August 31, 1998
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Conveying & accumulation
Caito says, 'We'll do it ourselves'
This Indianapolis produce wholesaler is breaking into a whole new market segment as it brings its 12-oz Fresh Line fruit bowls to supermarket produce departments in the Midwest.
August 31, 1998
Sustainability
Integrated manufacturing is the island way
Management at this start-up water marketer decides that the only way to assure bottle availability and top quality is to blow its own PET bottles in-line with its brand new filling line.
August 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
PET spreads to mayonnaise
Manufacturers looking to stand out from the competition introduce mayonnaise in 32-oz PET bottles. They cite reduced breakage and lower freight costs as plastic's advantages, while cost and shelf life are competitive with glass.
August 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
The Web's new trick: it's now useful
In our daily strolls out onto the Internet, we are noticing that an increasing number of web sites have become more sophisticated, offering genuinely useful information to packagers.
August 31, 1998
Secondary Packaging
Rubbermaid compacts damage
Mop heads are compression-packed to one-third their original size and then shrink-wrapped. Other benefits: lower material costs, zero damage and storage efficiencies.
August 31, 1998
Cartoning
Carton feeders illuminate GE Lighting lines
Four cartoning machines on two "Pro 80" light bulb packaging lines at General Electric Lighting's Winchester, VA, plant once required manual refilling of carton blanks every six minutes.
August 31, 1998
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
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
Conveying & accumulation
Lakeport likes can filling flexibility
This Ontario brewer designed a can filling line that accepts sizes from 8 to 32 oz. Secondary packaging can be corrugated trays, paperboard or plastic ring carriers.
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
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