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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Smarter packaging

RFID and security technology, especially authenticating methods, headlined a recent Smart Packaging conference outside Chicago.

October 31, 2004

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RFID at HP: Update and advice

"You need to make RFID happen,” Hewlett Packard’s manager of packaging engineering John Hayward told those gathered at the Smart Packaging conference in September.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Students and industry learn at MSU

The School of Packaging at Michigan State gives its students a thorough overview of the packaging profession while also meeting CPG companies’ ongoing research needs.

October 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Single controller governs vision; motion and logic

A tightly integrated controls package on this pressure-sensitive labeling system brings automation plus a 50% increase in throughput.

October 31, 2004

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Oh, Gee...MP

Concerns about food processing sanitation may lead to packaging and labeling changes, especially for allergens.

October 31, 2004

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PMMI is RFID enabled

Radio-frequency identification will be prominent at Pack Expo Intl. 2004 through a major conference track, eye-opener speakers, and an RFID Pavilion exhibition area of more than 40 companies.

October 31, 2004

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Three tips to improve your RFID label application

From compatibility to communication, these three insights may help you get smarter about 'smart labels.'

October 31, 2004

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The wrap-up: The tell-tale labeler

At a ‘haunted’ inn in Norwich, VT, a rebuilt 50-plus year-old labeler is still labeling bottles of a local microbrew.

October 31, 2004

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Clinical trial tips from Bristol-Myers Squibb

What’s new, what’s now, and what’s happening in Clinical Trials Materials (CTM) was the subject of an October 25 educational session held at the 2004 ISPE Annual Meeting in San Antonio featuring Bristol-Myers Squibb.

October 31, 2004

Cartoning

PACK EXPO bash celebrates ELAU customers

At an exclusive off-Rush Street venue, Europe’s packaging automation leader thanked a hundred ELAU customers for helping them achieve critical mass in North America.

October 31, 2004

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HealthPack 2005 to be held in March

HealthPack 2005, an event for medical device professionals, will be held in San Antonio, TX, on March 23-24.

September 30, 2004

Flexible packaging

U.S. shipments for packaging machinery rise in 2003; exports increase by 33%

PMMI study predicts growth in future buying activity; record back log of $1.3 billion.

September 30, 2004