Additives, coatings & inks

It's 2012---Where is your resin coming from?

Smart makers and users of packaging are already closely monitoring the performance and cost of Middle East polymers and packaging products.

August 31, 2008

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Flexibles

Anti-corrosion stretch film

New Corrosion Intercept Stretch Film from Engineered Materials provides protection against corrosion to all metal products, as well as nonmetal items such as painted surfaces and synthetic fabrics.

August 31, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

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

Coding, Printing & Labeling

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

Sustainability

Highlights from PAF 2008

Space constraints prohibit an all-inclusive report on Packaging Automation Forum 2008, sponsored by Packaging World and Automation World magazines. But here’s a peek at what Unilever, Lilly, and P&G had to say.

August 31, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

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

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Intelligent Packaging

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

August 31, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

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

Additives, coatings & inks

Drum labels

Labelmaster’s new line of Premium Laser Litho(TM) and Dura-Vinyl(TM) drum labels for shipping dangerous goods meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements.

August 31, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Fresher Than Fresh fish caught in case-ready trays

The packaging for case-ready MAP trays at Fresher Than Fresh (FTF), Gastonia, NC.

August 29, 2008

Flexible packaging

Edson debuts delta robot case packer

Edson, specialists in case packing of hard-to-handle flexible packages, introduces an all-new, ELAU-enabled delta robot packer, the RPd 270, at PACK EXPO booth N-4345

August 28, 2008

Labeling

How weigh price labelers can collect real time data on packaging line productivity

New white paper from Ossid explains how a new generation of weigh price labelers can be used to collect real time data on packaging line productivity, throughput, and status of customer orders.

August 14, 2008

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Flash demo of photoelectric sensors and controls from Tri-Tronics

In this flash rotation incorporating video, watch the different products in from Tri-Tronics Co.'s line of photoelectric sensors and controls.

August 13, 2008