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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Surcharges driving up costs

Living in a rural area has its advantages—and its disadvantages, too. It’s great for privacy and peacefulness, but living in a forest of cedars and birches, away from the bustle of towns and cities, has its negatives as well.

September 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Nanotechnology packs promise

Nanotechnology is expected to deliver improved strength and barrier properties to flexible and rigid packaging materials, although widespread commercial use may be years away.

September 30, 2004

Flexibles

Tips from Kraft on how to seize opportunities

Global competition is fiercer than ever, but U.S. consumer packaged goods companies can still find opportunities for success.

September 30, 2004

Converting equipment

Can PP sub for PET?

Krones claims it has successfully demonstrated that injection-molded polypropylene performs can be stretch blow molded into bottles at 1귔 bottles/hr.

August 31, 2004

Flexibles

Nanotechnology in packaging

The science of nanotechnology will likely affect packaging, but it will require years of R&D and a hefty financial commitment.

August 31, 2004

Additives, coatings & inks

Packaging savings

Resin Technology is now advising manufacturers how to most effectively purchase corrugated supplies, cartons, and boxes. This newest service adds to the company’s other consultation services for resin and color additive purchases.

August 31, 2004

Flexibles

Web site reflects years of data collection

EVAL Americas (www.evalca.com), a subsidiary of Kuraray Co. of Osaka, Japan, manufactures and markets ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer resins with gas barrier properties and resistance to solvents, chemicals, and hydrocarbons.

August 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Package security demands linking of strategy, technology

Tactics such as DNA taggants and color-shifting inks have to be married with strategies that include tight supply-chain security.

August 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

Packagers 'heated' over gas

Senate energy tax incentives would help on natural gas prices, but not immediately. So packagers will have to cope with high prices.

July 31, 2004

Flexibles

NatureWorks wins food-contact approval in Japan

NatureWorks™ PLA, a plastic resin made from corn, has won approval for use in food-contact applications from the Japanese Hygienic Olefin & Styrene Plastics Assn., that country’s equivalent to the Food & Drug Administration in the United States.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

June 30, 2004

Sustainability

Color control across resins and regions

Esteé Lauder Companies is strongly committed to packaging whose colors are consistent, on a global basis, regardless of the resin from which the part is molded.

May 31, 2004