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Conveying & accumulation

RFID: The promise and the struggle

Hype about radio-frequency identification clashes with reality at Baltimore EPC Global conference.

November 30, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

RFID and packaging security: not 'if,' but 'when'

The potential to track and trace helps establish a package's 'pedigree' and uncover tampering.

May 31, 2004

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™.

April 30, 2004

Flexibles

Silver Award winners

Following is a list of winners of Silver Awards in the Flexible Packaging Assn.’s 2004 Achievement Awards.

February 29, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Classes of poultry revisions

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend the poultry class standards of identity to better reflect poultry sold in today’s market.

November 30, 2003

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Packaging in the U.K. and beyond (Part 5)

Coors' new £35 million brewery (Part 5 of a 6-part series)

September 30, 2003

Sustainable Packaging

Pipeline: Boon or bane for recycling?

We recently read about some communities that are shifting the way they or their contracted companies handle curbside recyclables. Skokie, IL, has joined a number of other communities in the Chicago area—and I’m sure elsewhere—that are no longer requiring consumers to separate materials they put out for recycling.

August 31, 2003

Cartoning

Converting data into dollars

Our survey reveals that collecting, sharing, and converting packaging line data into knowledge is tricky for many. But for those who’ve mastered it, the benefits are compelling.

August 31, 2003

Flexibles

Birds Eye Foods' art management pays dividends

This summer, Rochester, NY-based Birds Eye Foods launched several new sauced frozen vegetables (shown) in flexible bags with prepress work executed through an agreement with Vertis, an integrated marketing and advertising solutions firm.

July 31, 2003

Flexibles

Convenience is key

Pet-food manufacturers discuss the future of packaging and how innovation, customer convenience, and ease-of-use fit in with upcoming packaging plans.

March 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

FPA awards show flexible versatility

From fruit to juice to dog food to premixed grout, the winners in the Packaging Excellence category in FPA’s annual competition are a mixed bag.

February 28, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Plug-and-pack a reality (sidebar)

PackML explained

December 31, 2002