Closures

Corporate Responsibility: Congress Adopts Broad New Requirements

(Magazine)

August 31, 2002, ... and customers, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 creates new requirements regarding financial disclosures and corporate fraud, and imposes an independence standard on corporate audit committees and certification ...

Packaging Strategies Study Provides Barrier-Enhancing Analyses

(News | New Products)

August 22, 2002, Packaging Strategies reports its new study Barrier-Enhancing Technologies for PET and Polypropylene Containers and Closures offers material, container, and manufacturing-cost analyses for barrier-enhanced ...

DOVIDs: Functional Beauty

(Magazine)

July 31, 2002, ... closures for all sorts of packaging. Developments include 8-15-mm-wide holographic stripes on rigid PVC shrink sleeves for bottle closures, providing heightened security and tamper evidence. Devices ...

Packaging That Really Works

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... or caps/closures rather than employ loose sachets. Aside from select fresh food, pharmaceuticals, and various specialist industrial areas, the other key application market for oxygen scavengers is likely ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... and service network for Presto's popular Fresh-Lock zipper closures. Presto's Fresh-Lock zipper sales team and SIG Doboy's sales and service experts will support packagers using the Easy Snap system. The ...

Q1 2002 Reports a Mixed Bag for Some of Converting Sector in Manufacturing

(News | New Products)

June 05, 2002, ... of $6 million, or 2 cents/diluted share, for Q1 2002. The results include a pretax restructuring charge of $7 million, or 2 cents/diluted share, related to facility closures. The co. earned $12 million, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... the containerboard market. The closures will be completed by the end of 2002. They represent 595,000 tons of annual containerboard production. Of that total, 425,000 tons were produced at Antioch and ...

Spills Are Out with New Spout

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... Spout flexible pouch, featuring Seaquist Closures' SimpliSqueeze dispensing technology, is said to mark the first commercially available flexible package that combines state-of-the-art shaped pouches with ...

Flex-Pack Faces Up to Global Competition

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ...  Pressures in mature markets look set to continue for the next five years, forcing reduced margins and ongoing rationalization in Europe and America. This will involve plant closures and other measures ...

Reclosability & Flex-Packs

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... elevated into new and more expansive markets by the introduction of a wide variety of novel package closures. No longer used solely for rigid containers, bottles, and tubes, the “flex-pack closure” has ...

Sonoco Completes Purchase of Phoenix Packaging

(News | New Products)

November 01, 2001, ... the Canton area, is the leading mfr. of steel, easy-open closures in North America. Sonoco says the closures can serve as closing devices for metal, plastic, and composite containers. "Only about one-third ...

All Zipped Up: Hard-to-Beat Valley Packaging Tackles New Zipper Technology

(Magazine)

June 29, 2001, ... quotes and talking to people about stand-up pouches and zippered pouches.” But as the technology and the demand for packaging with longer shelf life and better closures has increased, making zippered ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... to 1 gal. They can be topped with composite, paperboard, or plastic closures. VP Jerry Meier says, “These canisters are easy to open, easy to pour, and easy to reclose securely to keep products fresh. ...

Some Words of Caution on Dealing with the E-World

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... surveillance; careful disclosures of monitoring and judicious collection and use of information usually will suffice to avoid noncompliance issues in the US. However, labor groups have proposed legislation ...

RTO Technology Gives Best of Both Worlds to Converters

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... for turnkey installations. We don't supply just equipment anymore; we do concrete pads and support structures, even to the point of designing and installing permanent total enclosures. That's big right now ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

(Magazine)

July 31, 2000, ... and specialized closures. Film Is Dominant Plastic film dominates the industry with cost, performance, and environmental advantages over other flexible and rigid materials. Demand for plastic film ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... the shaped pouches can be designed to accommodate a broad spectrum of closing/dispensing devices, such as pour spouts, zippers, peelable closures, valves, pumps, and special straw entry holes, and additional ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke new ground in technology, closures, substrates, and source reduction. The official awards were presented ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... to VAW Aluminum AG, the huge German company that is involved in all areas of packaging, from flexibles to closures. As an integral part of its holding company, VAW-Europack, Bolding was assigned the sole ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

(Magazine)

May 31, 1995, ... control system, is acceptable. Industry maintains that temporary total enclosures are an expensive and rather drastic means to simply measure compliance. These testing costs do not help to reduce emissions. ...

Reynolds subsidiary in Spain benefits from technology transfer

(Magazine)

May 31, 1995, ... Aluminum foil, supplied by INASA, is converted into a wide range of flexible laminates by Grafiba. A major element in its business is lidding stock for yogurt and laminate closures for beer, champagne ...

Book details Japan's packaging industr

(Magazine)

May 31, 1995, ... The second largest packaging user is Sapporo Breweries. Fully integrated, it manufactures its own aluminum cans, crowns, closures and glass bottles. Flexible packaging products are oddly dispersed throughout ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

(Magazine)

March 31, 1995, ...  Judges selected winners for innovations in technologies, printing, closures, substrates, and advances in source reduction. The winners improved product protection, reduced costs and materials, opened ...