Beverage

Sentry wrapping machines leverage ELAU automation technology

A new family of end-of-line packaging equipment leverages PackML for a common look and feel across all machines in the family.

June 30, 2006

Vertical Markets: Page 238

Beverage

Wyeth's tips to packaging machinery OEMs

Build machines that can share data with machines built by other OEMs and find better ways to streamline fault reporting.

June 30, 2006

Prepared & Canned Foods

Challenge your team to think about what your packaging could be

Today, the packaging industry faces the challenge of continual innovation in response to increasingly savvy shoppers.

June 30, 2006

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Anatomy of a servo labeler

What’s a rotary servo labeler? Only the biggest news in flexibility since the invention of the timing screw. And innovative machine builder K2 Engineering is delivering now.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Ozone Treatment Systems

Norland offers the new OZ-25SSA and OZ50SSA, producing enough ozone to treat 25 and 50 gal of bottled water/min, respectively. The compact, platform-mounted systems deliver high ozone production at residual levels from 0.1-0.4 mg/L.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Prémio! Special effects say tequila's fabuloso

Jose Cuervo International is rolling out Black Medallion dark sipping, super-premium tequila in eye-catching bottles that reflect the spirit’s distinctive qualities.

June 30, 2006

Dairy

Hair care packs turn heads

John Frieda Professional Hair Care Business launched in North America in February its Luminous Color Glaze at-home salon-glazing product in clear printed InSight™ packaging from AGI/Klearfold (www.agiklearfold.com), a business unit of MeadWestvaco.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Glass design rewarded

Bacardi’s Corzo Tequila bottle won the Overall Package Design award in the 2006 Clear Choice Award competition sponsored by the Glass Packaging Institute.

June 30, 2006

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Divining qualified health claims policy by reading the tea leaves

“To make a claim based on a single study that was contradicted by 25 other studies would probably be considered misleading.”

June 30, 2006

Beverage

Counterfeiting--assess the threat, then build a solution

Dave Sayers is marketing development supervisor for 3M Security Systems, a provider of security solutions and services that identify, authenticate, secure, and track materials and information by combining security and productivity. Sayers talks about the damage caused by counterfeiting and offers advice on how to fight back.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

From 4-pack to fridge pack

Flexibility and rapid changeover are among the key benefits gained by Thiele’s decision to rely heavily on servo technology in its new packer.

June 30, 2006

Dairy

Packaging Lessons Learned

Readers share experiences of inventiveness, resourcefulness, and persistence.

June 30, 2006

Beverage

HP Invents Eco-Friendly Pack

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, has debuted a new angle on eco-friendly packaging using RPETG, a recycled polyester copolymer, that replaces polyvinyl chloride.

June 30, 2006