Packaging Technology articles from November 1996

Packaging Technology archives from November 1996

An extra dimension to CAD design. (three-dimensional computer-aided design at Metal Products Co.)
November 1, 1996... So you thought solid modelling was only available to those who had 'done their time' with two-dimensional. Think again. Increasingly, companies new to CAD are by-passing the traditional entry level systems and throwing themselves in at the...

Animal, vegetable or mineral? Adhesives and their applications.
November 1, 1996... Whether dextrins, rosins or hot melts, Bill Guise looks at the huge variety of adhesives on the market today. There are 23 classes of adhesive employed in the packaging industry, but the most used are; animal glues, casein, dextrins, rosin,...

Irradiation - a clean solution to sterilization.
November 1, 1996... The growth in bag-in-box packaging for the food and beverage industry over the past few years has been significant. This has been stimulated both by developments in the packaging technology itself, allowing larger volume containers to be...

Conveying demands simplicity and flexibility. (conveyors)
November 1, 1996... Managers and factory planners often face a conveyor system dilemma when attempting to identify and purchase their ideal storage and materials handling system. Conveyor systems can be simple or extremely complex depending on the products or...

PVC plastic - a threat to our children? (polyvinyl chloride)
November 1, 1996... Greenpeace has called for a worldwide phasing out of PVC because of its suspected role in synthetic hormone disruption. We look at its argument. Within its report, Taking Back our Stolen Future, Greenpeace calls for a worldwide phasing out...

Versatile, friendly and widely used - should PVC be such a bete noire? (polyvinyl chloride)
November 1, 1996... Chief executive of the Packaging and Industrial Films Association, John Pugh, defends the use of PVC. Greenpeace sees fit to campaign against all products based on chlorine which has been emotively described as the 'Devil's Element'. By...

Fact and figures from RAPRA. (figures about polyvinyl chloride from Rubber and Plastics Research Association)
November 1, 1996... Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is used, in its unplasticised form (uPVC) in bottles, and, in its plasticised form, as cling film. It is usually made from ethylene and chlorine, derived from chloride salts, using less energy than is represented by the...

A vision for the future. (labelling machine vision)
November 1, 1996... The recently reviewed FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Code of Good Manufacturing Process (CGMP) demands that all pharmaceutical labelling be verified. According to John Clayton, managing director of Newman Labelling Machines, this could mark...