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Inserter

The PromoSerter(TM) from EPI (New Freedom, PA) inserts individually wrapped 2- and 3-dimensional promotional pieces into packages. Handles inserts 2"Lx1"W up to 43/4"Lx3"Wx1"D.

July 31, 1999

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Summit Training Source, Inc: Training programs catalog

A new 64-page catalog of industrial safety and hygiene training programs is available from Summit Training Source (Grand Rap-ids, MI). Contains descriptions of 250 training products in video, interactive CD-ROM, Digital Safety Video(TM) and on-line formats.

July 31, 1999

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Heat-sealing machine

A new tabletop heat-sealing machine from Packaging Technologies & Inspection (Tuckahoe, NY) has a pneumatic sliding table and is designed for trays and cups as tall as 150 mm (5.9").

July 31, 1999

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Evergreen Packaging: Gabletop carton filler

Evergreen's (Cedar Rapids, IA) Model N-8 fills gabletop cartons with 4 to 10 oz of dairy or juice beverages at speeds to 340 cpm. The improved speed (from the company's initial 320/min rating) translates into the ability to fill an additional 10ꯠ containers in each 8-hr shift.

July 31, 1999

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Container and Pallet Services: Tracking software

Container and Pallet Services (San Francisco, CA) has introduced CAPS-TRAC(TM), a Web-based software system designed to track and manage shipping containers via the Internet.

July 31, 1999

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Soft touch foam

Alternatives to cross-linked foams, Synergy(TM) Soft Touch Foams from Dow Chemical (Midland, MI) are produced using Index(TM) interpolymers, a unique thermoplastic polymer family from Dow based on the copolymerization of ethylene and styrene.

July 31, 1999

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AMBEC: Pressureless inliner

Because it uses multiple tabletop chains instead of pressure to move bottles into a single-file line, this new inliner from AMBEC (Owings Mills, MD) is suitable for indexing irregularly shaped or unstable containers with-out causing jams by distorting them or knocking them over.

July 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Filling PET aseptically at 200/min

With a prototype system in one plant and generation two in another, this Italian food company likes what it sees in rotary, aseptic filling of teas and sports drinks in PET.

July 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Del Monte adds food to aseptic PET beverage line

A blow/fill system originally installed for aseptic packaging of teas and juice-based beverages now is being used to bottle a specialty tomato sauce.

July 31, 1999

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STA Packaging Tapes: Whiter sealing tape

STA Packaging Tape's (Garden Grove, CA) line of water-activated reinforced and paper gummed sealing tapes is now whiter and brighter. The whiter, STA-Force tapes are said to make white cartons look their best while retaining the benefits of strength, protection and security.

June 30, 1999

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Associated Bag Co.: Product catalog

Thousands of popular and hard-to-find packaging products and shipping supplies can be found in the new 150-page catalog from Associated Bag (Milwaukee, WI).

June 30, 1999

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Cadillac Products Packaging Co.: Nylon gears

Nylatron® material from Cadillac Plastic (Troy, MI) is an alternative to metal gears. The nylon material works better than metal in some applications because of the reduced friction and inertia linked with the bending of thermoplastic gear teeth.

June 30, 1999