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Packaging machinery

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A Handbook of Food Packaging

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A package is designed to protect and to sell the product it contains, and this generally requires a mechanical process on a packaging line selected to carry out efficiently those operations necessary to put the product into the package.

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  • F.A. Paine, Package Design and Performance, Pira International (1990). Encyclopedia of Packaging, Wiley, New York.

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Paine, F.A., Paine, H.Y. (1992). Packaging machinery. In: A Handbook of Food Packaging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2810-4_4

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