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Best Prices Best Prices Best Prices $6,995 $6,995 $6,995 SJ Minor 2 Screenless 10" x 10" Cutting Chamber $5,395 $5,395 $5,395 Dry max E30-70-M (25 lbs/hr) $6,495 $6,495 $6,495 Dry max E60-150-M (50 lbs/hr) $1,095 $1,095 $1,095 Feed max S3 net (300 lbs/hr) color gradient. The end result is an image with "near photo" quality. It also offers laser-engraved printing plates that it says are more environmentally friendly than decorating techniques that rely on chemicals. Greiner Packaging started in Pittston Township with sheet extrusion and thermoforming capabilities. Since then, it has added injection molding capacity with in-mold labeling. Greiner's Pittston Township plant is pristine. There is no piping for utilities on the production floor. Instead, services are located in separate rooms. Material is fed from three silos outside to blenders situated on a mezzanine above the production floor. Post-forming skeleton scrap goes to a granulator and is automati- cally refed into the production process. After forming, the containers are sent to a cup-cardboad assembly machine Greiner Packaging jointly developed with a German company. Instead of wrapping the cardboard around the cup, the machine first creates the cardboard wrap, then the formed plastic cup is placed inside. As a result of this approach, only one dot of adhesive is required to join the two components. Cups are stored for 24 to 48 hr in a temperature-controlled room to account for shrinkage. In the U.S., Greiner Packaging currently supplies cups in 73-, 80-, 95-, and 116-mm diam. On the factory floor, a quality-control lab is fully instrumented to check products for height, width, topload strength, dimensions, etc. In Europe, Berglandmilch of Austria, a supplier of milk, butter, cheese, and other dairy products, opted for a rectangular K3 package and won a Save Food Award from the national Czech competition, Obal Roku. (This technology is not yet available in the U.S.) The Save Food Award is a prize awarded to particularly Greiner's plant in Pittston Township was built with further expansion in mind. On-Site Greiner Packaging