Sustainability

Plastics' broken loop

Recycled-content legislation has receded, environmentalists have been quiet and virgin PET is plentiful and cheap. Packagers are divided on whether to continue their commitments to use post-consumer resin in the U.S. market.

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Controls & Machine Components

Recycled chipboard

Royal Pad Products (Cincinnati, OH) has added Royal Pad Economy chipboard to its line of recycled paperboard products. It is a low-density board with a dry finish designed to be used as separator sheets, tie sheets, pallet caps, dunnage and in other packaging applications.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Molded cradle structure

The High Lip Rollguard II(TM) Model L-RF-10-SL is a molded roll cradle from Great Northern Corp. (Appleton, WI) that's designed to protect rollstock during handling, storage and shipping.

April 30, 1997

Home

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers (Washington, DC) is now headquartered at 1801 K Street, NW, Ste. 600K, Washington, DC 20006, phone 202/974-5254; fax 202/296-7354.

April 30, 1997

Flexibles

Stretch film recycling

Trex (Winchester, VA) will buy excess PE film and remove it for recycling. Recyclable materials include stretch film, pallet wrap and plastic grocery bags.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Paperboard pads, partitions

QSmooth(TM) die-cut pads and partitions from Jefferson Smurfit (St. Louis, MO) are made from 100% recyclable paperboard. Designed for customers requiring dust-free and scuff-resistant protective packing.

April 30, 1997

Flexibles

Stretch film recycling

Trex (Winchester, VA) will buy excess PE film and remove it for recycling. Recyclable materials include stretch film, pallet wrap and plastic grocery bags.

April 30, 1997

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Matrix finds 'suede' takes special handling

The use of a new copolymer for its 'soft feel' requires special care in container handling to preserve its appearance for men's haircare line. That risk wins a Best of Show in the National Assn. of Container Distributors competition.

April 30, 1997

Flexibles

Retention pack cuts costs for HP

At Hewlett-Packard's Roseville, CA, parts distribution facility, a relatively new form of protective packaging has slashed packaging material costs by half, warehouse space requirements by two-thirds and packaging assembly time by 75%.

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

UV flexo technology provides economic relief

Narrow-web UV flexo press allows folding carton converter Mebane Packaging to reduce costs, while it increases flexibility for Bristol-Myers Squibb.

April 30, 1997

Flexibles

Plastics under seige in Massachusetts

A plastics recycling bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts state Senate that would, if passed, doom the sale of most plastic packaging. The bill bans plastic packaging for consumer products unless at least 80% of Massachusetts residents have access to plastics recycling facilities by December 31, 2000.

April 30, 1997

Sustainability

Turning the shoe industry on end

Italian shoemaker challenges packaging conventions by adopting a vertical gable-top package that resembles both a doctor's bag and a milk carton. Patented carton design offers environmental advantages in waste-conscious Europe.

April 30, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

More EC export regs

North American exporters to the European Community (EC), who already must contend with some 20 different packaging laws, may face yet another EC mandate, currently under consideration by the European Commission, according to Recycling Laws Intl.

April 30, 1997