Sustainability

Smart's light still burns bright

Smart packaging thrives, with innovations that drive greater brand marketing and product communication, as well as enhance product quality and safety.

October 4, 2008

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Pack Expo---a spotlight on green

Change, Innovation, and Sustainability are the key themes of this year’s Conference at Pack Expo. But conference speakers will shine the brightest spotlight on sustainability.

October 4, 2008

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The bar-coding/RFID debate

During their BPPF presentation, Aaron Graham and Mike Celentano made it a point to say that Purdue Pharma is open to different technologies, including both RFID and bar coding.

October 3, 2008

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Lessons learned

Purdue Pharma has learned several valuable lessons as it’s proceeded with its RFID implementation.

October 3, 2008

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Purdue's packaging line process

At Purdue Pharma’s manufacturing and distribution facility in Wilson, NC, RFID is employed on one packaging line for bottles of the company’s OxyContin (oxycodone HCl controlled release) tablets.

October 3, 2008

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RFID to the core

Sonoco Products Co., Hartsville, SC, adds RFID technology to the fiber-based cores it provides the paper industry using a solution from IPICO (www.ipico.com).

October 3, 2008

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Reining in the rogues

With the exception of an infectiously joyous masterpiece known as “Where the Hell is Matt,” I’m no fan of YouTube.

October 2, 2008

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Ensuring RFID's Bottom Line Payoff

RFID's capabiltiy to drive business process improvement, increase supply chain efficiency and ultimately improve bottom line results...

September 30, 2008

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Food exporter specializes in global labeling/coding

AMFEX receives cases of food products from major U.S. food manufacturers, unloads them, adds or adapts primary package labels/codes, repacks the cases, and adds or adapts case codes to satisfy requirements for country of destination.

August 31, 2008

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Smart label printer/applicator

Weber Marking has released the Model 5300rfid, the newest generation of RFID SmartTrak label printer/applicator, designed to easily print, encode, verify, and apply p-s RFID labels to cartons and pallet loads in one preset operation.

August 31, 2008

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On-line printing brings efficiency to Allpack

A new blister-pack line at pharmaceutical contract packaging firm Allpack in Basel, Switzerland, is notable for its use of on-line UV-cured flexo printing of foil lidstock.

August 31, 2008

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Intelligent Packaging

Intelligent Packaging is an emerging technology that can be used to enhance food quality and safety.

August 31, 2008

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Metro's meaty RFID app

UHF Gen 2 radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions provider Impinj, Inc. (www.impinj.com) recently announced a groundbreaking implementation in food freshness and customer safety.

August 31, 2008