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Blister packer feeds three different tablets for Amway
Amway's Nutrilite Div. blister-packs three dissimilar, tough-to-feed vitamin tablets on one blister card. New equipment provides substantial savings over contract packaging.
August 31, 1997
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Contract Packaging
Supplier news: Relocations, expansions
A new contract packaging company called Quality Packaging Systems, Inc. (Colonial Heights, VA) has been formed and is located at 1701 Touchstone Rd., Colonial Heights, VA 23834; phone: 804/520-0600, fax: 804/520-0215.
August 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
WestPack draws from far and wide
Featuring four specialty pavilions, including a brand new Materials Handling Pavilion, WestPack '97 unfolds at the Anaheim Convention Center September 23 to 25.
July 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Zippered packs sparkle for Diamond Walnut
Stockton, CA, growing cooperative adds zippers to walnut bags. New hf/f/s machine and modular case erector/packer/closer efficiently pack four bag sizes.
July 31, 1997
Flexibles
New tack on pack by Old Navy
A stand-up pouch that's not only spouted but peggable?
June 30, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Bottling water for millions
Tak Fat now supplies pure bottled drinking water to eight million consumers in China's Guangzhou area. The next target is the total Guangdong province of 69 million, and then on to the rest of the country. Integrated 5-gal line delivers 400 bph.
May 31, 1997
Contract Packaging
Solid change for pet food
The rapid expansion of pet store chains and specialty pet food products is ample evidence that pet food is a growing category. What's yet to grow is pet food packaging, though Solid Gold Holistic Animal Healthcare may be in the process of changing that.
May 31, 1997
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Freeze-dried veggies enjoy PVOH shield
A 0.84-mil oriented polypropylene with a coating of polyvinyl alcohol plays a key role in the distribution of Veggibles(TM), a novel freeze-dried vegetable snack from Beverly Hills Farmers Market.
May 31, 1997
Contract Packaging
Rhapsody in blue
Rochester, NY-based Global Beverage's striking cobalt blue-tinted polyethylene terephthalate container is credited with firing up sales of its Bl Botol brand spring water since it debuted about 10 months ago.
April 30, 1997
Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)
Machine technology that slashes changeover
In this second report from our survey of changeover trends, readers describe how new equipment technology like control programming and tool-free adjustments helps them attack downtime.
March 31, 1997
Flexibles
Kellogg tests stand-up pouch for new cereal
Cereal manufacturers are sure to be keeping an eye on the stand-up pouch with zipper reclosure used by Kellogg Canada for a test of Hot Krumbly instant hot cereal.
March 31, 1997
Flexible packaging
Of communion cups and stand-up pouches
These three FPA award winners represent different industries to be sure, but they all have one thing in common: Their use of flexible films to meet packaging challenges.
February 28, 1997
Secondary Packaging
No uniformity in changeover demands
Almost any way you measure packaging line changeover, the answers from Packaging World readers vary widely. The major agreement is that more changes are being demanded-and less time is available for doing them. However, the strategies for hastening change
February 28, 1997
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Agitated Retort
JBT Marel's Efficient Agitation (EA) Retort combines static processing with linear agitation to offer flexible sterilization for diverse packaging formats, resulting in shorter cook times, reduced resource usage, and fresher food products.
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