Detergents/cleaners

P&G gains throughput plus cost savings

A recent switch from pallet wrapping to application of a stretch hood lets P&G cut costs while eliminating a bottleneck in its paper tissue packaging operation.

February 9, 2007

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Flexible packaging

Checking up on healthcare packaging

Drug delivery devices, advances in combination products, and biologicals/biopharmaceuticals will present both challenges and opportunities for packagers.

February 9, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID has game at Best Buy

IDTechEx has published a slick new 128-page RFID in action 2006/7 magazine that features case studies culled from its “RFID Knowledgebase” of more than 2,300 implementations in 85 countries. Of the approximately 25 articles is Best Buy’s implementation that includes smart shelves, electronically enabled shelving that  can read the tags of products. This permits the retailer to know whether or not a package is present on-shelf to help reduce out-of-stocks.

February 9, 2007

Labels

Nestlé Beneful receives Pack Expo Selects award

The dog food package for Nestlé Beneful Prepared Meals was selected the winner in the inaugural Pack Expo Selects™ program by packaging professionals attending last November’s Pack Expo Intl., which is sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (www.pmmi.org).

February 9, 2007

Consumer packaged goods

CD/DVD labeling application video

CD/DVD labeling systems are typically designed to apply browser, spine, security and spot labels to CD and DVD cases. New application video from CTM Labeling.

January 29, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

IoPP tackles sustainable packaging

About 100 people braved the lake effect snow of Southwest Michigan January 25 to attend the first meeting of the IoPP Sustainable Packaging Task Group.

January 26, 2007

Beverage

Coors debuts Hispanic Super Bowl packaging

Official beer sponsor of NFL caters to Latino football fans with bilingual Super Bowl packaging.

January 25, 2007

Consumer packaged goods

SharedBook connects through packaging

Envelope-style pack helps the company book retail customers for its online MemoryBook service.

January 15, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Associated Packaging Equipment's roll-fed servo Polystar® labeler 'a giant step forward'

Martin Malthouse, founder and President of Associated Packaging Equipment Corporation, described the servo version of its Polystar® roll-fed labeling system his firm developed with ELAU's PacDrive™ automation system. It is an in-line system that uses servo-driven star wheels to achieve exceptional flexibility and speed.

January 14, 2007

Sustainability

PP pails

IPL Packaging offers a newly designed family of PP industrial pails and commercial containers.

January 11, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Resilient RFID tag

Now available from Confidex, Ironside RFID transponders work on metallic objects and in the most demanding conditions.

January 11, 2007

Containers

That's a wrap

Six servo-driven shrink-bundling machines help a pickle company transition out of corrugated reshippers and into tray packing.

January 10, 2007

Flexibles

Salad maker targets conveyor cleanliness

Green Cuisine upgrades salad assembly ops, enhancing production speeds as well as sanitation and quality controls.

January 10, 2007