Closures

Pet product closure

Precious Cat, a Colorado-based pet care company, chose a closure from Weatherchem to top its 20-oz container for cat litter additive called Cat Attract™.

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Additives, coatings & inks

PET bottle resin companies seek relief

An organization called the U.S. PET Resin Producers Coalition in late March filed petitions with the United States Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission requesting an investigation of unfair trade practices by PET resin producers in India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Taiwan.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling framework sought

The Grocery Manufacturers of America and National Food Processors Assn. submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration applauding the agency’s initiative in accommodating qualified health claims on food labels and urging flexibility in both health claims and dietary-guidance statements.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Problems with COOL

Food industry groups filed comments with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service on its interim final rules for country-of-origin labeling requirements.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Geriatric drug labeling

FDA is soliciting public comment on its proposed collection of information on the “Geriatric Use” subsection of labeling for prescription drugs. Information related to the use of the drug by elderly or geriatric patients must be included, where appropriate, in the precautions, indications and usage, dosage and administration, clinical pharmacology or clinical studies, contraindications, and warnings sections.

April 30, 2004

Additives, coatings & inks

Companies

Exact Packaging, Inc.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label limbo

Uncertainty over country-of-origin labeling regulations leaves food packagers wondering what’s next.

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling updates

Reports on OTC drug labeling, Codex meeting, fighting obesity with labels, and the Senate's passing of an allergen bill.

April 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Integrated automation: 2004 EEC Seminar message

At the Annual Eastern Equipment Committee Seminar, a first-time attendee walked away with the message that packaging automation is becoming more and more integrated. What’s that mean exactly?

April 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID debate

While widespread use of electronic product code (EPC)/radio frequency identification (RFID) at the store level is thought to be years away, retailers are already eager to use it for case and pallet-level tagging.

March 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID printer/encoder

From Zebra Technologies, the R4Mplus is a thermal-transfer printer that also writes data to an RFID tag carried in the label stock.

March 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

PMMI's Yuska talks at Total

Chuck Yuska, chairman of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, addressed assembled journalists recently at the Total Processing and Packaging Show in Birmingham, England.

March 31, 2004

Converting equipment

Direct-to-Preform technology

Zimmer AG of Frankfurt, Germany, claims it has developed a Direct-to-Preform (DTP) process that bypasses resin pellets altogether.

March 31, 2004