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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Contract Packaging
Logistics/Supply Chain
Controls & Machine Components
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Package Design
PMMI News
Workforce
Conveying & accumulation
Bringing a glacier to the consumer
On Vancouver Island, a brand new PET bottling line fed by an in-line stretch blow-molding machine is packaging right from a glacier some of the purest water on the planet.
September 30, 1998
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Palletizing/depalletizing
Pack Expo week is a machinery extravaganza and more
Swirling around Pack Expo 98 are seminars and technical conferences that round out the Pack Expo experience. Robotics.
September 30, 1998
Conveying & accumulation
A new record for distributed control
Music distributor Valley Media cuts downtime by more than 50% on its newest labeling/sortation/collating line. A network of micro PLCs controls the line as well as gathers performance data to speed troubleshooting.
September 30, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
The color of branding (sidebar)
What colors mean
September 30, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
Smart systems improve line efficiency
The more packagers know about their equipment, the better they can fine-tune it. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software has already proven a benefit to some packagers. Part one of a two-part analysis.
September 30, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
Smart systems improve line efficiency (sidebar)
What is SCADA?
September 30, 1998
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
An open-and-shut case for reclosability
Pharmaceutical company Galderma Laboratories switches to a reclosable clamshell for its sample size of prescription topical medicines that's 35% cheaper than before.
September 30, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Ormec (Rochester, NY) has purchased Westamp (Chatsworth, CA), a maker of servo drives, which will operate as Ormec's new UltraDrive Div.
September 30, 1998
Contract Packaging
Contract Packagers Assn. changes name
The Contract Packagers Assn. announces that it will now be known as The Contract Packaging Assn. The new name denotes that the association represents not only contract packagers, but those organizations connected with contract packaging in general.
September 30, 1998
Flexible packaging
Innovations in plastics help foods flourish
Pinched-grip PET, an innovative pastry bag, a take-out bag for chicken, foamed CPET, and barrier beer bottles and food containers all win DuPont awards.
September 30, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
Laminations: Paperboard edge protector
VBoard® Plus is a laminated paperboard edge protector with a soft, inner liner designed to prevent damage to shipments of wood or metal furniture, as well as plastic, steel and glass products with delicate surfaces.
August 31, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
Macro Engineering: Macro Engineering: High-capacity extruders
World Standard sheet extrusion systems from Welex (Blue Bell, PA) now incorporate either 5" (2겨 lb/hr) or 6" (3겨 lb/hr) vented Mark III extruders, take-offs with integral winders, hydraulic screen changer and a gear pump and static mixer.
August 31, 1998
Controls & Machine Components
PLC Direct: HMI software
Lookout® Direct is an operator interface software package from PLC Direct (Cumming, GA). Priced at $1귏 for the development/run-time package and $995 for the run-time only package, Lookout Direct is a 32-bit application powered by Windows(TM) 95/98 or Windows NT.
August 31, 1998
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