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Mamata Holds Demos at Open House

Published: January 01, 2010
AHMEDABAD, INDIA | Visitors from more than 20 countries attended an open house at Mamata's India facility where three product lines were demonstrated.

Make Pouches for Pet Food

Published: January 01, 2010
A 32-in.-wide pouch machine is designed to take press-to-close and slider zippers on side-gusseted pouches to address the packaging needs for pet food

Small Slider Cuts Material Costs

Published: January 01, 2010
The Slider Advantage is designed with less material to reduce manufacturing costs and decrease a package's environmental footprint. The smaller clip allows

Pouchmaker Has Enhanced Seal

Published: January 01, 2010
The BH-80HVG-F (SG8) machine produces a large box pouch with side gusset and zipper in-line. The top of the side gusset is sealed by a proprietary 45-deg

Make Bags, Pouches

Published: January 01, 2010
Model GSD-60SZLV three-servo, three-side-seal bag machine features standing pouch and zipper sealing units. Said to ensure excellent tension control for

Thiele Technologies Buys Hudson-Sharp

Published: September 01, 2009
Thiele Technologies, a div. of Barry-Wehmiller, announces the purchase of The Hudson-Sharp Machine Co., Green Bay, WI, and Brussels, Belgium

The Bag Cycle

Published: August 01, 2009
On a recent visit to the neighborhood Target, I spotted something I hadn't seen before. Archer Farms, Target's private label, packages its potato chips

Making Pouches With Speed

Published: March 01, 2009
Ampac Flexibles reports the installation of a new Totani Model BH-80HVLLLS-M pouching machine in its Elk Grove Village, IL, facility.

Bag Sits Flat

Published: December 01, 2008
Being has become the new cool trend in pouchmaking. A unique, box-like profile combines the best features of a stand-up pouch with those of a true flat

Dirge for a Plastic Bag Part 2

Published: September 01, 2008
There are more PFFC readers with an opinion on banning plastic bags since my last column in August. And there's still more positive news on the subject,

Weight Reduction

Published: September 01, 2008

Coating Excellence Intl., a supplier of specialty flexible packaging, has made sustainable development an essential element of its business plan — and ultimately its business success — for the past decade

Plastic Bag Recycling Efforts Lauded

Published: August 01, 2008
NEW YORK, NY The Progressive Bag Affiliates of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) is applauding the efforts of Penn Jersey Paper Co. and Poly-Pak Industries,

Bagmaking Guiding: Air Solution

Published: August 01, 2008
Productivity runs at a fast pace at privately owned Duro Bag Mfg. Co

Dirge for a Plastic Bag?

Published: August 01, 2008
While the dirge-like proliferating news on the subject of plastic bags isn't exactly a hymn or tune, certainly the negativity surrounding the topic is tending to sound slowly and very solemnly like grief and lamentation for the bag's future

More Pouches, More Sizes

Published: June 01, 2008
CINCINNATI, OH A new Mamata pouching machine is at work in the Cary, IL, facility of Ampac Flexibles. The Vega 610 is giving Ampac the ability to increase

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