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Views, commentaries, opinions and packaging industry updates from the world of Southgate.
Which WAT and Why?
| Sustainability, Water Activated Tape
Water activated tape (WAT) – also known as gummed paper tape – is rapidly gaining popularity for carton sealing because it has near-perfect eco credentials but at the same time outperforms conventional plastic tapes. And as an added bonus, it works out cheaper per sealed carton. Standard WAT is a single layer of pure kraft …
Sealing Range Expands with V-Type
| Taping and Ancillary
Vacuum sealing is widely used in the packaging sector and across many industries, primarily the food sector where the vacuum expels oxygen that causes decay of fresh meat, dairy and vegetable produce, and to extend the shelf life of products such as cured meats and fish, coffee, cereals and nuts. This preservative effect can also …
BP555 – Cutting Your Cost Per Carton
| Sustainability, Water Activated Tape
How much is it costing you to seal your corrugated cartons? Did you know that you could save money, speed up the process, improve your packaging security and green credentials just by changing to water activated tape? We’re not talking about new technology here – gummed paper tapes have been around since Thomas Edison was …
Southgate at Packaging Innovations 2019
| Exhibitions
When the doors at NEC Birmingham open on 27-28 February for Packaging Innovations 2019, Southgate will be ready with an exciting range of products that continue their theme of increasing productivity – ‘Fewer Paces, Faster Pace’. Visitors to the stand will see our enthusiastic, approachable team demonstrating products – no perching on bar stools with …
The Facts On… Biodegradable
| Sustainability
Biodegradable is a generalised term for the physical and chemical decomposition of materials under certain environmental conditions and in the presence of specific catalysts. In the broadest sense, all plastics could be described as biodegradable as they will eventually disintegrate, but this can be misleading when comparing their environmental impact. To evaluate a plastic’s environmental …
Your Chance To Win A Samsung Tablet
| Exhibitions
Visitors to the Southgate® stand (K48) at Packaging Innovations 2019 will have the chance to win one of two Samsung tablets in a Prize Draw: Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, 8” 32GB with WiFi Samsung Galaxy Tab A, 7” 8GB with WiFi All they have to do is deposit their business card in a ballot box …
No Need to Lose Your Cool… With Ripack®
| Transit
Things can get fairly hot when you’re shrink wrapping large stuff such as palletised or oversized loads, boats for over-wintering or UV protection and so on. A shrink gun will get particularly hot around the nozzle, especially if it’s an industrial grade propane burner, and there’s a very high risk of burn injury to skin …
How Can FMCG Survive 2019?
| Business and News
While low unemployment is generally a good thing, current levels – the lowest for more than forty years – are beginning to pose a serious threat to the FMCG sector due to a shortage of skilled workers. Research conducted by the British Chambers of Commerce in January 2018 reported that 71% of recruiting companies in …
Advantages of WAT #2 – Tamper Evidence
| Sustainability, Water Activated Tape
In our previous blog (Advantages of WAT #1 – An Integral Closure, 14 January 2019) we mentioned the tamper-resistant advantages of water activated tapes. Tamperage and pilfering cost businesses millions of pounds every year. This could be avoided with the use of water activated tape for carton sealing. It is shockingly easy to soften the …
Southgate® drives new E-Type to market
| Machinery
The new, innovative E-Type impulse heat sealer features digital technology that increases productivity. Sealing temperature and cycle time are set and adjusted precisely on a digital display, giving more flexible control over seal quality and energy consumption. Adaptive Sealing Cycle Control (ASCC) automatically adjusts sealing and cooling times to suit the working cycle speed so …