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8 include spout diameters from 10 to 38 mm and tamper-evident closure designs. Fitments can be posioned in a top corner or centered. Die-cut handle aids pouring. Smart Bole, Inc.: A flat-boom squared design from Smart Bole, Inc., posions die-cut handles on both ends to provide stability for pouring gallon-plus volumes. This new design flexible package is a Silver Award Winner in the 24 th DuPont Awards and was recently quali-fied by Kra Foods for instuonal size salad dressings. The package’s dramacally reduced size and weight make for easier shipping, storage and disposal: unfilled packages occupy about 85 percent less space; filled, they take up about 40 percent less space. Smart Bole says its patented technology produces a leak-free package that outperforms lightweight HDPE boles in a four-foot drop test. Filling occurs on equipment from General Packaging Equipment Co. The fitmented pouches can Printpack Viscopack System PACK EXPO INT’L 2012 contain carbonated beverages and be sized from 0.5 to 5.28 gallons. A triangular shape is under development. The design offers several fitment choices including diameters from 10 to 110mm, dispensing or sports spout, and threaded or snap-on closure. Printpack: Bulk liquids also are packaged on Printpack’s Viscopack System 3.0 form-fill-seal machine with high- or medium-barrier PerformX® coextruded polyolefin film. Fill volumes range from 8 ounces to 2 gallons. The ma-chine forms, hot- or cold-fills, and seals pillow pouches at speeds up to 60 1-gallon fills/minute. Smaller volumes and dry products run faster, 120 and 175 pouches/minute, respecvely. Servo drives and motors precisely control all movements including film tracking, registraon, weighing, squeeze rollers and sealing jaws. However, the knife remains pneumacally controlled. The connuous-moon machine can add funconal features such as easy-open tear notches and switches to intermient moon to apply reclosable fitments. A model for retort pouches is under development. – HEF/JES More informaon Steve Courchaine, vice president Technical Services, Star Packaging Corp.: 800.252.5414; soluons@starpackagingcorp.com; www.starpackagingcorp.com Ken Wilkes, founder and president, Smart Bole Inc.: 828.348.0292; ken@smartboleinc.com; www.smartboleinc.com Bob Kelly, president, General Packaging: 713.686.4331; rkelly@generalpackaging.com; www.generalpackaging.com Ken Rogers, business development manager, Printpack: 952.893.4063; krogers@printpack.com; www.printpack.com/viscopack. Particulate Piston Doser Engineered for Cold-Fill Aseptic Drinks The asepc dual filling system featuring Piston Doser PX parculate filling technology from GEA Procomac S.p.A. is engineered for asepc applicaons of cold-fill sll beverages. The system is capable of accurately delivering mate-rials that contain pulp, fiber, and pieces of fruit or cereal as large as 10 mm high by 10 mm wide by 10 mm thick into PET boles. The system ‘s two-filler setup first draws the parculate poron in the set volume into the Piston Doser’s fill cylinder using a cam-driven piston before it is delivered into the PET bole. The second filler delivers the clear liquid poron to complete the asepc fill, which can range from 200 mL to 1.5 liters total volume. The system’s capability is 48,000 boles/hr of 500-mL size. – RTL More informaon: Marco Meggiolaro, senior engineer, GEA Group: 39 (0) 422.172.9304; marco.meggiolaro@geagroup.com; www.promac.it Gregory Thompson, product manager, Oystar-Group: 800.257.5622, greg.thompson@oystar-group.com; www.oystar-group.com/brands/oystar-holmac.html 2-D Laser System Inspects 1,200 Bottle Crowns Per Minute filtec’s 2-D laser-based inspecon system for bole crown quality assurance checks the dome profile by measuring the area under the crown dome to detect improperly sealed crowns at rates as high as 1,200 boles/min. The company says the system is an alter-nave to inspecon by convenonal sonic-based systems, because the accuracy of those systems can be affected by extraneous noises such as bole jostling on the line or adjacent lines. One of the filtec lines is in operaon at a brewery in Canada, and a major U.S. brewery is planning to test the system. – RTL More informaon Phil Wiles, senior sales engineer, filtec: 310.560.9981; wiles@filtec.com; www.filtec.com. Shrink Label Material Makes Recycling PET Bottles Easier ExxonMobil introduced Label-Lyte 50TD200, a new polyolefin-based material for bole shrink labels to aid in the recycling of PET boles. The material has a density less than 1.0, allowing the label material to float to the surface and separate from the PET re-grind, which sinks during the recycling process. Most currently used shrink labels cannot be separated from PET boles during recy-cling, and the inks discolor the recycled materials, which renders it unusable for new boles. – RCC More informaon Kevin P. Frydryk, barrier commercializaon engineer, ExxonMobil: 630.922,6835, kevin.frydryk@exxonmobil.com. Smart Bole, Inc., flat-boom squared design Star Packaging Corp. preformed pouch Piston Doser PX from GEA Procomac S.p.A.
Pre-Made Stand-Up Pouch Developed for Liquids ALLIEDFLEX Technologies, Inc., introduced a stand-up dispensing pouch for liquid products. The pouches are supplied fully formed with the dispensing spout aached. The spout is near the boom of the pouch, and the gusseted boom allows dispensing of the product while sing upright on a shelf or in the refrigerator. The pouches also incorporate a carrying handle. They can be supplied without graphics to allow labeling of small quanes for test markeng products, and complete 2-side graphics can be supplied for high volume established markets. To fill the pouches, posion them flat in the filling machine, where part of the dispensing spout is removed, the pouch is filled and the spout reinserted. The process introduces minimal air into the pouch, facilitang full dispensing of the product. ALLIEDFLEX cur-rently offers a single-head, hand-fed machine for small producon test markets, and can also supply automated machines able to fill up to 40-48, 1 ½ liter packages automacally. – RCC More informaon Kevin Dobberfuhl, regional sales manager, ALLIEDFLEX Technologies, Inc.: 941.923.1181; kdobberfuhl@alliedflex.com. Circular Container Prototype Turns Heads Circular extrusion blowmolded polypropylene container developed by mold-building specialist R&D/ Leverage, contains 24 ounces of liquid in a single- or dual-chamber configuraon with 28mm neck finish. Center of circular container can hold another pack to create a meal/snack kit, such as milk and cereal, or juice and crackers. Sizes can be scaled up or down. – HEF More informaon Robert Schiavone, global markeng director, R&D/Leverage: 816.525.0353, ext. 6305; rschiavone@rdleverage.com; www.rdleverage.com PET Drink Bottle Filler Cuts Waste, Ups Speed Solbern engineered the new RLFF-60, PET bole filler for energy drinks, health drinks, nutrionals, flavored products, juice, tea and water. The 60-staon rotary liquid funnel filler relies on Solbern’s unique system, which uses the bole as the measuring device to consistently produce uniform fill levels. A series of funnels move into the neck of the bole at the start of the process. Each contains a siphon tube, which removes any excess product and transfers it to a recovery trough to be pumped back, uncontaminated, into the system. The company says the amount of product recirculaon is less than 2 percent. The filler produces higher yields than convenonal rotary fillers. The system is simple to operate and to maintain, and uses no pis-tons, screens or valves that require maintenance. – EJB More informaon Jorge Espino, sales manager, Solbern: 973.227.3030, sales@solbern.com. Pyramid-Shaped Teabag Speeds Brewing, Enhances Taste Pyramid teabag by Tsubakimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. Tsubakimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. introduced a 3-dimensional teabag fabricated out of a fine plasc mesh, in the shape of pyramid. This unusual twist on an old product allows for more space in the bag to speed the brewing process and improve infusion, flavor and aroma of the product. The machinery for manufacturing the teabag along with accessory equipment on display at the show demon-strated the manufacturing capability of the product. The teabag folds flat and can be packed in convenonal car-tons for distribuon and sale. – EJB More informaon Suguru Hiramatsu, sales, Tsubakimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. : +81.3.6718.0137, suguru.hiramatsu@tsubaki.co.jp. R&D/Leverage circular polypropylene container 9 BEVERAGE
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