Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Smart's light still burns bright

Smart packaging thrives, with innovations that drive greater brand marketing and product communication, as well as enhance product quality and safety.

October 4, 2008

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PFW): Page 335

Beverage

Keeping motion and logic separate

This builder of liquid filling machines maintains its belief in a motion controller that is separate from the PLC that governs a machine’s logic.

October 4, 2008

Beverage

'Fun' closure a production problem solver

It’s not just its carriers and cases that are innovative. Solomon Wine Co. has topped its Muse-brand bottles with Zork closures from Zork USA, a division of Portola Packaging, Inc. (www.portpack.com).

October 4, 2008

Beverage

Muse puts the fun into functional wine packaging

Solomon Wine Co. releases a display-ready case of carrier-packed wines topped with an easy-to-reuse ‘cork.’

October 4, 2008

Beverage

Bottle as art grows Mountain Dew's market share

Limited edition aluminum ‘bottlecan’ series expanded from six to 12 labels.

October 3, 2008

Beverage

Lessons learned

Purdue Pharma has learned several valuable lessons as it’s proceeded with its RFID implementation.

October 3, 2008

Beverage

Bulk bag loaders

BEST bulk bag loaders from Metso Minerals Industries are easy to operate and feature state-of-the-art technology in weighing and loading systems.

October 3, 2008

Pet Food

Energy drinks hit high gear in shrink-sleeved multipacks

A drink for female off-roading enthusiasts is ‘pretty in pink,’ and in silver, and in black.

October 2, 2008

Beverage

PET-packed beer gets longer life

Barrier packaging guarantees German brew a shelf life of six months.

October 2, 2008

Beverage

Wine debuts in barrier-coated PET bottles

In March 2008, Artisan Wine Co., British Columbia, introduced to Canadian markets its Painted Turtle brand Semillion/Chardonnay and Cabernet/Shiraz wines in 750-mL silicon oxide-coated PET bottles from Ball Corp. (www.ball.com).

October 2, 2008

Beverage

3-L PET jugs with auto-attached PP handles

Langer Juice Co., Inc., City of Industry, CA, is marketing juices in 3-L, hot-filled PET jugs specially developed by Plastic Engineering Technologies (407/808-9825 or 909/390-1323), Ontario, CA.

October 2, 2008

Beverage

Dundee design simplified, beautified, unified

Redesign adds personality; can graphics enhanced with high-res printing.

September 24, 2008

Beverage

Cartoner ideal for bottled water packaging

The ZAC-CH10.5-30I-Stick horizontal cartoning system from Z Automation can package products ranging from a stick pack to feminine products, continuously or intermittently.

September 18, 2008