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Packaging Trends II
1960-1969
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Packaging Trends
Beer can with ring
New applications are found for aluminium. The so-called TV dinner is packed on an aluminium tray and can be heated like this straight away. The beverage can undergoes an improvement that makes it substantially easier to enjoy the contents. It is no longer stabbed open, but can instead be opened by pulling a metal strip on a ring from the lid of the can. This ring-pull system is patented in 1963.
From the cow to the carton
Carton packaging for liquids, in particular milk, has become a trend product. Filling companies may choose from a number of different concepts. The Pure-Pak system came over from the USA to Europe during the sixties. The Perga-Pack by Günter Meyer-Jagenberg was manufactured by a subsidiary of Jagenberg-Werke AG, later Papier- und Klebstoffwerke Linnich GmbH (today SIG Combibloc). Ruben Rausing formed Tetra Pak (SE) in 1951, launching the characteristic tetrahedral-shaped carton one year later. The packaging material is supplied on a roll. A pioneering innovation was the technique of aseptic filling introduced by Tetra Pak in 1961.
Rational right down the line
In order to make packaging more rational, individual machines are joined up to form a packaging line. The demand of the packaging industry for such systems is great. The synchronization of the individual machines remains a technically demanding task, however, which can only be solved by leading companies in the industry.
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New standard (1960)
© Rovema
A good idea that will make career: designers of Rovema (D) integrate a friction belt for film draw-down into their vertical form, fill and seal machine, which moves the film at the forming tube downwards. Until then the horizontal sealing jaws, which seal and separate the film, also pulled down the film by gripping. Rovema makes two functions out of one: film draw-down and horizontal seal function.
One packaging line (1963)
© Bosch Packaging Technology
Presenting its packaging line L-PHBR 3/SP 3 at interpack 1963 Hesser Maschinenfabrik AG (now Bosch Packaging Technology, D) demonstrates its skill in synchronizing production steps from loose product to nested pack. The unit produces paper bags which can be filled with sugar, salt or similar bulk materials. The bags are sealed and then grouped in a nest.
