Packaging Briefs
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-- Packaging Digest, 11/20/2009 3:23:00 PM
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009
PMMI Names Benjamin Garvey its youngest board member ever
Garvey Corporation is proud to announce that its General Manager, Benjamin Garvey, has been appointed to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute's Board of Directors. He was voted in by the membership at an annual meeting in New Orleans on November 10th, 2009. The appointment is for four years and he keeps up a tradition of previous Garvey leaders to sit on PMMI's board (Thomas Garvey 1976-1980 and Mark Garvey 1991-1995, 2001-2004). Garvey Corporation, based in Blue Anchor, NJ, is a manufacturer of conveyors and accumulation tables for packaging systems.
Bosch Rexroth offers tips on how lean principles can help improve sustainable manufacturing
Bosch Rexroth is offering advice on how basic lean principles can be used as a means for reaching sustainable manufacturing goals. "Lean and Sustainability" is episode number ten in Rexroth's lean manufacturing podcast series, available for listening or free download from the company's website at www.boschrexroth-us.com/leanpodcast. The podcast series is also available from the iTunes podcast library and other podcast directories on the web.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
Alcoa to idle smelting operations in Italy while appealing EC ruling
Alcoa announced it will temporarily idle production at its two aluminum smelters in Fusina and Portovesme, Italy. The curtailment is a result of uncertainty in obtaining future power supply for the smelters at competitive rates and the financial impact of today's European Commission (EC) decision that Italy's extension of the existing electricity tariff after 2005 did not comply with European Union (EU) state aid rules and that a portion of the benefit received by Alcoa must be refunded. Alcoa is appealing the decision.
FPI releases ovenable packaging guidelines
The Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) released its new "Guidance Document For Qualifying Ovenable Packaging," which provides guidance to those seeking to qualify single-use packaging products for ovenable applications. This new guidance document is a major revision to the "Test Procedure Guidelines to Qualify Dual Ovenable Containers," originally developed in 1988 by FPI in conjunction with Cornell University's Department of Nutrition. It is intended to be applicable to all single-use packaging products, for use in consumer, commercial and institutional ovens. These include conventional or range, convection, conveyor and other ovens used in households and the foodservice industry. The 2009 document was produced by FPI's Foodservice Packaging Standards Council, comprised of industry representatives from both member and non-member companies.
Venture Plastics ramps up capacity
Venture Plastics, Inc., a full-service, ISO/TS-16949 certified custom thermoplastic injection molder, has invested approximately $600,000 during the past 90 days in new injection molding machines for its two processing facilities in Newton Falls, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. The company has also hired an additional Production Manager.
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