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New Packaging Technology Will Star at Pack Expo

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September 30, 2000, ... for B2B/B2C E-Commerce , Bill Armstrong, Sealed Air Corp. From Pallets to Parcels: The Next Generation of Packaging , Erik Aunan, 3M Packaging Systems Div. For more information contact PMMI, ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... to invert, aerate, jog, and square pallet-sized loads, blowing off dust and debris in the process. Automatan provides installation and in-plant training. Visit Automatan at automatan.com. New Package ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... cleaner contains only 2.2% VOCs and has a "zero" flammability rating. Cleans anilox rollers, doctor blades, metering rollers, UV ink pans, sidewalls, and press frames. Gantry-Style Palletizer Maximizes ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... electric roll lifter/turner maximizes productivity and minimizes risk of operator injury, says mfr. Reportedly enables lifting, turning, loading, unloading, and palletizing rolls to 600 lb safely and efficiently ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... in film bags.] Next, you place the chicken packages in corrugated boxes, and the boxes are put on a pallet. Then you send the pallet through the irradiator. The irradiation rays go through the corrugated ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ... allows Apollo to produce film from 0.0006 to 12 mils. End-use products converted from the film products include box liners, bags, shipping sacks, pallet covers, shrink bags, and more. The factory, located ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... built robotic roll-handling equipment," Barrett notes. "This proprietary equipment removes the rolls from the slitters and puts them onto the pallets. Actually, this equipment is really slick. We're getting ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... and flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs) are growing significantly. Palletizing and Unitizing Metallocene linear low-density polyethylene is growing at 9% annually to provide thinner, stronger, ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

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February 29, 2000, ... The bottomer also came with an automatic palletizer section, which helps our efficiency. With all of our other bottomers, you need one or two people to stack bags off the end of the machines. And you still ...

Tetra Pak plant in Spain is environmentally certified.

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July 31, 1996, ... slitting units, shrink tunnels, and palletizers. A team led by the company's Quality and Environmental Management Systems Coordinator has been working on the program for the last two years. The final ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... graphics that will stimulate purchase. Toray also notes the cracking and crazing resistance of PC-10PP; the package's 99% degree of pallet efficiency; and consumer convenience features such as reclosability, ...

Retrofit brings older sheeters back to life.

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August 31, 1995, ... the layboy/plier area remaining after the knife retrofit is mechanically sound. To improve stack quality upgrades can be made to this area, such as pallet center/offset piling, tape belt replacement and ...

Mead expands in-house capabilities with sheeter

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July 31, 1995, ... enable us to sheet to order and allow us to carry reduced inventory levels." Among the features of the sheeter is a design that allows Mead to carry out reel and pallet changeovers without stopping ...

Team-building includes sharing goals, benefits, responsibilities.

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July 31, 1995, ... cross-functional consists of four or five people who actually make the ice cream plus a packaging operator, an engineer, a shipper, a palletizer, a maintenance person and so on. Each team handles everything, ...