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Secondary Packaging

Ergonomic vertical cartoner

SWF Companies’ Tisma Div.

October 31, 2003

Cartoning

Gen3 vs. Gen2 case study at PACK EXPO Conference

Benefits of integrated automation documented in side-by-side comparison.

October 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Glaxo rolls out three more dentifrice innovations

Continuing its roll-out of new dentifrice products, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Moon Township, PA, has now introduced a toothpaste and floss combo, Aquafresh Floss 'N'Cap.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Stainless washdown conveyors

AquaPruf™ conveyors, a just-launched line of all stainless-steel conveyors engineered for the washdown and sanitary markets, are suitable for food, pharma, medical, and personal-care products industries.

September 30, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Wago Corporation: Ethernet fieldbus controller

Wago’s Ethernet TCP/IP programmable fieldbus controller offers 100Mbits/sec Ethernet with 32-bit RISC processor, 512 kb program memory and 128 kb data memory.

September 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pipeline: The elusive 'nickel' tag

Hot on the heels of a tech-stock surge, media outlets of all stripes have carried stories about the “possibilities” for radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags or labels.

September 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Obstacles to information integration abound

Manual data collection, lack of technical infrastructure, and improper training are just a few of the obstacles readers grapple with in collecting, analyzing, and acting on packaging line data.

September 30, 2003

Closures

Plastic carton shows off new Aquafresh tube

A folding carton made of 15-mil polyvinyl chloride is helping new Aquafresh Extreme Clean toothpaste fly off store shelves. For a time since its introduction early this summer, the new brand was reportedly the top-selling item in Wal-Mart’s toothpaste aisle.

September 30, 2003

Containers

Creating a sophisticated package

To help create a package that could communicate the rich, luxurious character of its new line of beauty products called Lineance European Body Essentials, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. of Princeton, NJ, looked to Sonoco to help design a sophisticated line of folding cartons.

September 30, 2003

Closures

Plastic carton shows off new Aquafresh tube

A folding carton made of 15-mil polyvinyl chloride is helping new Aquafresh Extreme Clean toothpaste fly off store shelves.

September 30, 2003

Closures

Portola acquires Tech Industries

Portola Packaging acquired Tech Industries, a manufacturer of plastic closures and containers for the personal care and cosmetics industries.

August 31, 2003

Cosmetics/Personal care

Business conditions improving in packaging

The business climate in packaging appears to be improving. So says new research from Trend Watch Graphic Arts, which conducted two surveys this year, one of consumer products companies (CPGs) and one of packaging printers and converters.

August 31, 2003