Sustainable Packaging: Page 593

Converting equipment

Olin takes air out of pool chemicals display

A new line of interlocking modular square containers was designed to meet retailers' needs. Design features, some patented, make containers consumer-friendly as well.

February 28, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

AET Films: Product manual

A 132-page manual from AET Films (New Castle, DE) describes the company's OPP film products. The book is divided into ten sections covering four film types: transparent, metallized, white opaque and label.

February 28, 1998

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Coleman's Sheltra packs for convenience

New clamshell packs for smoke and gas detectors went through many versions, but samples were available in time for the buying season. Now the consumer-oriented packs are filling the retail pipeline.

February 28, 1998

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

Widemouth cups will expand beverage packaging options

We've been looking at the newest generation of Ensure® nutritional supplement packaging and thinking that thermoformed or injection-molded cupsin some advanced stage of developmentcould be beer and carbonated beverage containers (CSDs) in the future.

February 28, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Woodland Poly casts for western film business

Cast and blown film-making equipment, using metallocene resins, enable Woodland Poly to produce rugged stretch-wrap film in thin gauges for its customers in the west.

February 28, 1998

Flexible packaging

Agricultural winners at FPA

Two innovative flexible packages merit an 'A' for Agricultural.

February 28, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Collapsible tote

The Collapsi*Tote is a reusable collapsible container for the complete agricultural cycle from harvesting to retail display. From Perstorp Plastic Systems (Tacoma, WA), the container is constructed of a specially modified PP plastic utilizing a gas-assist technology, which is said to create a more durable and lighter frame than those of solid plastic.

January 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Shipping crate

From Homasote (W. Trenton, NJ), Dura Crate(TM) is a crate for product shipping and storage. It's made of Homasote board with a die-cut design and is held together with bands or screws for returnables, or with staples or nails for one-way shipments.

January 31, 1998

Home

Breakthrough in certification of compostables

In a memorandum of understanding with the Intl. Biodegradable Products Mfrs. Assn. (IBPMA) and the IBAW (a German interest group for degradables), the certification organizations AIB-Vincotte (Brussels) and DIN-Certco (Berlin) have agreed to harmonize their certification schemes for compostable products.

January 31, 1998

Containers

Extended height containers

Ropak's (Georgetown, KY) Extended Height, reusable, HDPE collapsible containers with a 45" x 48" footprint are an alternative to pallets.

January 31, 1998

Sustainability

Photoelectric sensor

New SVP Series Smart Value photoelectric sensor from Honeywell's Micro Switch Div. (Freeport, IL) is available in a self-diagnostic connector ouput version.

January 31, 1998

Protective/transport packaging

Reusable PVC clamshells short-circuit waste for Lucent

Telecommunications component supplier slashes materials and labor costs by shifting to vinyl clamshell packs for printed circuit boards. Now Lucent asks some customers to return them for reuse.

January 31, 1998