Packaging Terms

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V-33-2

A Unicap (formerly 3M Cap-Seal) product. White vinyl solvent coated on white sulphite paper.
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Vacuum Closure

Any closure equipped with a liner capable of holding a vacuum.
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Valve Cap

A closure that includes a valve to regulate the flow of the product from the container.
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Valve Seal

A Valve Seal finish requires a closure mechanism that will seal a container on the inner portion of the container wall, at the top of the finish.
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Valves

Styles included metering, corrosion resistant, and check-valves, valves for flexible tubing and valve manifolds.
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Vent

In a mold, a shallow channel or minute hole cut in the cavity to allow air to escape as the material enters and to facilitate ejection of the molded part from the cavity.
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VentSeal 76

SureSeal 200 series material with V-grooves indented .015" + or - ì .005".
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Vials, Glass

Styles include tubular, serum, injectable antibiotic, safety-coated, autosampler, screw thread, patent lip, display, shell, capsule, and perfume sampler vials. Various colors are available.
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Vials, Plastic

Child resistant, snap-cap non-child resistant, threaded, and safety-coated vials. Various sizes and colors are available.
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Vinyl

Informal generic term for any of the vinyl resins, or for film, or other product made from them.
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Vinyliner

A SANCAP Liner Technology product. Vinyl coated white paper. Vinyliner Plain is a pigmented vinyl chloride-acetate copolymer ì coating on a primed bleached Kraft paper. Color: White. Suggested product uses include after shave lotion, bleaching ì fluid, castor oil, cuticle remover, expectorant, eye wash, face ì cream, formaldehyde, glycerine, hair tonic, witch hazel, mineral ì oil, smelling salts, alcohols, fruit extracts, writing ink, shoe ì dressing and hydraulic brake fluid.
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Virgin Material

A material or liquid that has not been subjected to use or processing other than that required for its original manufacture.
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Viscose Band

A secondary closure or seal made of regenerated cellulose, applied in a wet state over the cork, metal or plastic cap that forms the primary closure, and then shrunk tight by drying. It is used to prevent tampering, to dress up the package, to provide brand identification, to aid the primary closure in preventing escape of products, to prevent cap from becoming unscrewed, etc.
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Volume

Also known as displacement or capacity. (1) The amount of water displaced by a model of a container; used to estimate its capacity. (2) The amount of product a container is designed to hold, i.e., up to the fill-point of the container. (3) Also, the overflow capacity, i.e., amount of product a container will hold when filled to overflowing.
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V-Seal

A small non-flexible v-shaped ring molded into a closure so that the v makes contact with the sealing surface (land) of the container's finish during normal sealing operations. The V-Seal requires compression to be effective. Most commonly used for sealing tubes.
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