Packaging Closures and Sealing Systems examines the technologies relevant to packaging closures and sealing systems and features chapters contributed by top professionals in the packaging industry.

Features:

• Examines all of the relevant issues in packaging closure design, from aesthetics to functionality
• Discusses the currently available packing closure technologies, organized by packaging type
• Covers a range of package types, from metal, plastic, and glass containers to flexible and composite packaging
• Considers the issues of child resistance, tamper evidence, and openability

Contents

Introduction

• Market size
• Choice of material for containers and closures
• General functioning of packaging
• Closures
• Manufacturing considerations
• Leglislation and testing
• Environmental considerations

Design of Packaging Closures

• Scope of the problem
• Ergonomics and the science of design
• Physical constraints and issues
• Cognitive constraints and issues
• Individual differences
• Packaging related constraints and issues

Closures for Metal Containers

• Materials and methods uses for construction of metal containers and closures
• Closures for performance containers
• Closures for GL performance containers
• Closures for GL non-performance containers

Closures for Glass Containers

• SWOT analysis for glass
• Methods of manufacture of glass containers
• Sealing methods

Composite Containers

• Gable-top cartons
• Brick-shaped cartons
• Aseptic filling
• Round containers - convolute
• Round containers - spiral tubes
• Environmental - recovery and recycling

Closures for Plastics Bottles and Tubs

• Screw closures
• Sealing media
• Application methods
• Push-on closures
• Flip-top and sports closures
• Tamper-evident closures
• Child-resistant closures
• Roll-on pilfer-proof closures
• Spray pumps
• Dispensing pumps
• Secondary seals

Push-On Closures

• Closure function
• Metal closures
• Plastic closures
• Closures for tubs

Flexible Packaging Closures and Sealing Systems

• Sealing layers and special additives
• Sealing technologies
• Types of seal
• Packaging machine
• Sealing problems
• Pattern cold seal

Child Resistance, Tamper Evidence and Openability

• Child resistance
• Tamper evidence
• Openability

Index

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