Secondary Packaging

Thomasville rolls out RFID 'a la cart'

Thomasville Furniture’s RFID solution for boxed product moves around on wheeled carts at its Appomattox, VA, DC.

May 31, 2005

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Ross Labs speaker provides an RFID update

In his HealthPack 2005 presentation, Mike Wallace of Abbott Laboratories’ Ross Laboratories Division noted that Ross’s Isomil infant formula ranks as the fourth most frequently stolen product from its top customer, Wal-Mart.

May 31, 2005

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What does the price of gasoline have to do with healthcare packaging?

Gas prices continue to climb. Airlines and trucking companies are the hardest hit.

May 31, 2005

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IBM's RFID RPCs

RFID-enabled reusable plastic containers (RPCs) will be used to shore up the 1귔-mile supply chain between IBM’s Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) operations in Montpellier, France, and Dublin, Ireland.

May 31, 2005

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An RFID tug-of-war

These days, RFID tagging for many manufacturers is a given. Whether to do it is no longer the issue—even how to do it isn’t as important as it once was.

May 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Package security--action replaces talk

Drug firms start RFID tagging, and anti-counterfeiting tactics expand as packagers get more aggressive to protect brands.

May 31, 2005

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Optimize line efficiencies through real-time info

Ongoing trends in the Consumer Packaged Goods sector—including things like packaging that’s customized according to demographic, rapidly growing numbers of SKUs, abbreviated product life cycles, and the inclusion of RFID tags on cases—have made packaging flexibility an absolute priority for CPG companies and their contract packagers.

April 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Expanded RFID R&D facilities

Venture Research announced in January that it had secured a 5-year lease on 15귔 sq’ to expand its validation, testing, and mfg. capabilities for RFID portal and conveyor tunnel infrastructure products.

April 30, 2005

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RFID-ready kit

Alien Technology’s Alien RFID Ready Kit for Retail, a package that includes Alien EPC RFID readers, antennas, and tags, as well as the training, services, and information needed for successful planning and deployment of RFID.

April 30, 2005

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Consumer privacy and RFID

Representatives from P&G, EPCglobal, and electronics group EPIC assembled for a lively panel discussion on the knotty issue of privacy concerns for RFID.

April 30, 2005

Sustainability

An update on RFID at HP

Hewlett-Packard is both a provider and user of RFID technology.

April 30, 2005

Secondary Packaging

More on RFID from K-C and Wal-Mart

Mike O'Shea discloses more details about RFID at Kimberly-Clark and Simon Langford updates Wal-Mart's experiences.

April 30, 2005

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Pacific Cycle shifts into RFID

Pacific Cycle deploys item-level RFID for its boxed bicycles.

April 30, 2005