Founded in 1944 as KartridgPak, Packaging Technologies, a division of the IWKA Company, designs, engineers, manufactures and markets a variety of packaging, processing and filling machinery. The company targets the food, meat, dairy, pharmaceutical, explosive, cosmetic, aerosol, and other commercial and consumer product industries for its products and services. The company s brands include KartridgPak, KP Aerofill and Holmatic. The KartridgePak line includes chub packaging machines used in the manufacture of high viscosity foods, caulks, sealants, explosives and other industrial products; fat analysis equipment and smoke generators. The KP Aerofill line offers rotary liquid filling machines, rotary propellant filling machines, rotary valve cimpers and placers, test tanks and semiautomatic lab equipment. The Holmatic line includes filling and sealing systems, tamper-evident conduction sealing systems, overcap applications and piston product fillers. Packaging Technologies has operations in Clearwater, Fla., and Davenport, Iowa.