Beverage

The wrap-up: Device 'homes' in on bar coding

This gizmo can help organize your CD, DVD, book, and game collections in the comfort of your own home.

April 30, 2005

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Controls & Machine Components

Smart Package: Powered inhalant

Touchspray, a high-efficiency inhalant technology, is the ‘Smart Package of the Month’ as selected by the experts at IDTechEx.

April 30, 2005

Flexibles

A 'cool' data-logging temperature sensor

An economical and compact new temperature-tracking device is being used by Cool Dog for frozen novelties.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ross Labs' speaker extols RFID's benefits

Mike Wallace of Abbott Laboratories’ Ross Laboratories Division provides an updated look at RFID at HealthPack 2005, held in San Antonio in late March.

March 31, 2005

Household/Automotive

Kliklok-Woodman Intl. hires new director of operations

Kliklok-Woodman has hired Nigel Salter as director of operations of the company’s Bristol, United Kingdom, facility.

March 31, 2005

Consumer packaged goods

Oxygen absorbers for pharmaceutical packaging

Süd-Chemie offers its new PharmaKeep, a new line of oxygen absorbing canisters and packets designed to protect pharmaceutical and diagnostic products from the harmful effects of oxygen.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Splenda ads not splendid

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is calling on the makers of Splenda to change the labeling and advertising of the increasingly popular artificial sweetener.

March 31, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

Cosmetics may have to show warnings

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now taking a hard look at whether common cosmetics and personal care products that contain untested chemicals need to display a warning label to consumers.

March 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Companies

Pearson Packaging Systems recently launched a rebranding campaign to reflect its commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and customer service.

March 31, 2005

Flexibles

On paper, a world of opportunity

The consensus view is paperboard is hardly old-fashioned. But both consumers and retailers believe it can do far more to intensify the visual theater, clarify the price-value relationship with the product, and improve security.

March 31, 2005

Prepared Foods

How the research was conducted (sidebar)

Sponsored by the Paperboard Packaging Alliance, the consumer research involved eight focus groups of adult consumers and four groups of teen-agers and younger consumers known as “tweens.” They were held in 2003 and 2004 at NewProductWorks, a new product development consulting organization in Ann Arbor, MI.

March 31, 2005

Cosmetics/Personal care

Controlled capping

The integrated controls package for Pneumatic Scale’s new SC Series cappers improves accuracy and data collection.

March 31, 2005

Flexibles

Nestlé Canada restages coffee for incremental growth

Nestlé Canada wanted to grow the marketing potential for its roast and ground coffees in the foodservice industry, but it realized the channel is diverse and that it needed to rethink its branding strategy.

March 31, 2005