December 5, 2008

• Storage Food Container - Product Information

   Critical Hygiene
  All food grade products should be manufactured in a certified Critical Hygiene area.
   
  Achievement of this standard of hygiene includes:
  §         Bacterial Swabbing and Monitoring
  §         Air Filtered to 1 Micron
  §         Positive Air Pressure at a 40 Pascale differential between inside and outside factory
  §         Full Airlock Procedures for people, product, consumables or materials entering into a Critical [...]

• Cap and Neck Bottle or Jar Finishes

  Screw thread cap sizes are generally expressed as two numbers. 
  The first number refers to the cap diameter (in millimetres) and the corresponding Glass Packaging Institute (GPI)/Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) finish diameter. 
  The second number refers to the height and thread configuration of the closure or finish.
  These are commonly used bottle caps or jar caps and [...]

December 1, 2008

• Closures And Lidding Machines

  Some important things that you might want to keep in the back of your mind for future reference.
   
  1/ Many small customers currently use air operated cap tightening equipment and in some cases delivering a mixed bag of results. One thing that many overlook is:- because of the nature of the chuck used (manly a round [...]