Coding, Printing & Labeling

IBM's RFID man in Europe

Thierry Mottaz, IBM’s Integrated Supply Chain quality and customer support manager, server engineering, is leading a team developing an in-house RFID track-and-trace solution in Europe.

June 30, 2005

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Secondary Packaging

RFID 'a la cart'

Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc., Thomasville, NC, has partnered with Odin technologies to lead its RFID compliance program for its Creative Interiors division where products are shipped to retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart.

June 30, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

CompaniesAmpac Packaging has completed its acqusition of Kapak Co.

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Suits planned by CSPI

The Center for Science in the Public Interest announced it will increasingly turn to the courts to stop deceptive labeling, fraudulent advertising, and the use of dangerous food additives.

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

GM labeling stalled in Codex

Members of Codex failed to agree on the creation of labeling guidelines for genetically modified foods during the Codex meeting in Malaysia in mid-May.

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Carb loading

The Food and Drug Administration is set to bring some order to a ‘Wild West’ array of label claims about carbohydrates on food packs.

June 30, 2005

Labeling

The wrap-up: Phone cracks the bar code

Technical Research Centre develops and patents a bar-code analysis program that enables a digital camera phone to act as a bar-code reader.

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New drug bottle 'Targets' safety concerns

A prescription bottle designed for Target Corp. pharmacies gives new meaning to the phrase “extreme makeover.”

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Smart Packaging: Printed RFID tags in test

Direct-print RFID technology in pilot in Europe uses no silicon or transistor.

June 30, 2005

Labels

IFCO's asset tracking produces results

A digital-based color wheel track-and-trace technology for IFCO’s RPCs brings ‘tremendous’ benefits.

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Automation to fuel demand for packaging machinery

With Freedonia predicting a 4% annual increase in world demand for packaging machinery through 2008 and the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute predicting 7% growth in U.S. packaging machinery sales this year, it’s useful to ask just what kind of packaging machinery will sell most briskly and what market segment will do the most buying.

May 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Enterprise transaction module

Online Development’s xCoupler™ enterprise transaction module for Allen-Bradley® ControlLogix® controllers provides two-tier data exchange between plant floor devices (sensors, actuators, drives, bar-code scanners, robots, RFID controllers) connected to the controller and enterprise servers.

May 31, 2005