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Redundancy Rules at Old Orchard, Packaging World
A recent switch from round to rectangular hot-fill PET bottles at Old Orchard Brands brought about the installation of a new filling line that relies partly on machine redundancy to maximize throughput.
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Turning Up The Volume, Dairy Field
Filling technology expands and improves, mirroring dairy productivity. Volume is critical to success in the dairy industry, but so too are the mechanisms that control product volume itself.
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Wrapping Up Bottled Water, Packaging Digest
Earth20, Culver, OR, began bottling water in single-serve bottle sizes in 1991. The water bottles are conveyed to a monobloc gravity filler/capper from Fogg Company that has 48 filling stations and 16 capping heads.
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Biota's High-Water Mark in Sustainable Packaging, Packaging World
Colorado-based Biota debuts spring-fed water in commercially compostable bottles molded of polylactide. Bottles are moved from the SIG molder on an air conveyor to a 42-valve rotary filler from Fogg Filler Co.
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Filling Low-Alcohol, High-Sugar Spirits Cleanly, Packaging Digest
To run new products containing less alcohol and more sugar, Barton Brands has installed four Fogg fillers with integral clean-in-place systems to minimize flavor carryover. A fifth filler is on order.
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Fast,
Light Bottles Pose Challenge for Lines, Food
and Drug Packaging
With speeds increasing and bottle weight decreasing, beverage bottling lines
need
integrated, versatile equipment. When you’re installing a high-speed bottling
line, you need support. For both your machines and your bottles.
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Montaqua
Makes Its Move, Packaging World
Montaqua Spring Water of Dillon, MT is poised to
make a splash. A new line for PET bottles paves
the way for much broader distribution. Central
to this line is a 24-valve gravity filler from
Fogg.
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Clever Layout Enhances Bottling Efficiency, Packaging
World
When the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians decided
to bottle and market the water that flows from
mountain springs on their California land, they
didn't mess around. They spared no expense in building
and equipping their gleaming new plant.
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Dairy Filling/Casing Reaches New Heights, Packaging
Digest
In 1998, Santee Dairies opened one of the largest
and most sophisticated fluid plants in the dairy
industry. And, with the help of four Fogg rotary
fillers, Santee Dairies has reached new heights
by filling 34,000 gallons of milk, juice and soy
products per hour.
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New Filler Extends Tropicana's Long Shelf Life,
Packaging Digest
Silver Springs Citrus has been meeting its customer's
needs since 1921. So when Tropicana, which represents
a considerable part of its contract packing business,
told SCC that it required a minimum of 63-day shelf
life for its Dole and Season's Best (from concentrate)
products, the company responded immediately.
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New Spin on Bottled Water, Packaging Digest
To avoid paneling its 2-L cut-glass-style PET bottles,
Fountainhead Water Co. selects filler with elevating
platforms and incisions in the neck ring to hold
bottles during torquing.
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PC Control Grows Up, Packaging World
Contract packager Beverage Capital becomes one
of the first users of a 78-valve liquid filler
controlled by a single PC. The contract packager
commissioned the filler from Fogg to fill Snapple® ready-to-drink
teas and juice drinks for Triarc Beverage Group,
White Plains, NY.
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Guzzlers Bring New Gear to Twin Mountains, Packaging
World
When fruit-flavored Guzzlers proved popular, the
bottled water marketer moved quickly to install
both new bottle-making equipment as well as a new
packaging line.
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McKesson Brings PET Packing In-House, Packaging
World
Fast-growing California water bottler is learning
to appreciate the advantages of in-house filling,
after long relying on contract bottlers for its
half-, 1- and 1.5L PET bottles. The bottle sizes
were formerly filled for McKesson by contract packagers.
By bringing the production in-house, McKesson gains
significant cost savings and better inventory control.
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