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Global packaging standards, 11607 packaging compliance, accelerated aging, package failure analyses, and tips for working with consultants were among the key discussion points at the recent MD&M (Medical Design & Manufacturing) West Conference.
Marking its 20th year, the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation 2008 include a number of notable achievements in sustainable packaging.
Campbell Soup Co.’s Web site describes its Campbell’s Soup at Hand as “a great way to eat right when you’re on the run.”
Reseal options give companies more ways for providing consumers with
added package convenience. One new technology, which adapts the entire
front of a package into a recloseable panel, has been recognized with
gold-level honors in packaging excellence by FPA judges.
Photos of the 2008 Flexible Packaging Assn. Silver Award winners.
BeautiControl repackaging solves dehydration problems.
Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.
The promise of smart packaging has always been impressive. Now, at last, some pretty intriguing commercial applications are starting to surface.
Retortable single-serve barrier cups have generated a number of headlines lately. First was cat food, then tuna for humans, and now, from Mt. Olive Pickle Company of Mt. Olive, NC, pickles.
Quick-change versatility and a boost in throughput are two of the benefits gained since a four-robot packaging cell was installed at this Unilever meat plant in Germany.

For Somic, the shipping case is the display for a wide array of flexible and rigid containers. Interpack saw operation of a complete tray erecting, packaging and lidding end-of-line system from Somic.

The Model SMR3 is a three-stop rotary placing system that utilizes Graphic Packaging's patented secondary motion technology. This compact system combines a conventional 30-degree inclined infeed magazine with a second position for labeling, coding, gluing, bar code reading or product assembly.
From a feed bowl, tablets are fed into formed blisters via a Cam Pak thermoform/fill/seal system. Once lidding is applied, blister packs move through an inspection station from SEA Vision (represented in the U.S. by Calia Technical Inc.) and then on to a punch station.
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