Flexibles

Analyzing bioplastic packaging's future

Bioplastics: The very name suggests sustainability, but that shouldn’t exempt the materials from an objective, probing analysis.

December 3, 2007

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Sustainable Packaging

Cereal manufacturers should switch from two inner bags to one for club store packaging

Sustainable packaging is an incremental pursuit, quickened when adoptions are made by an entire category. For example, club-store-size cereals with twin bags inside a carton could be switched by cereal manufacturers to one large bag.

November 7, 2007

Reusable/Returnable

On packaging, patents, and protection

Packaging personnel need knowledge and readiness to maximize their contributions in corporate battles over patents.

October 30, 2007

Flexibles

Honeywell's clutter-management products court 'soccer moms'

Innovation brings women to an aisle in the store—auto care—they don’t normally frequent, and integration of a network of vendors gives Honeywell a ‘virtual factory.’

October 4, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

AroMetrics packs refreshed

A good-looking and good-smelling package redesign for Valvoline car fresheners cuts through the ‘noise’ at retail.

October 3, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Picking, packing, and palletizing with robots

Robotics—a flexible automation system that improves productivity, quality, and workforce capabilities—continues making inroads into packaging.

August 9, 2007

Secondary Packaging

General Mills: packaging equipment must be 'worth it'

At the second annual Packaging Automation Forum sponsored by ELAU and other automation suppliers, packagers zeroed in on the supply chain impact of flexible, standards-based automation technologies on the packing floor. The keynote speaker in particular nailed the topic.

June 18, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Anti-counterfeiting strategies begin to take shape

From the automotive aftermarket to personal-care products to pharmaceuticals, new brand authentication and anti-counterfeiting initiatives are swimming into view.

June 11, 2007

Household/Automotive

A role for robots

Senior director of operations Jack vanderDeen of Siptop Packaging talks about robotic solutions implemented recently at Siptop’s Mississauga, Canada, plant (see www.packworld/view-22569).

March 8, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

SEW-Eurodrive USA: Decentralized control

SEW-Eurodrive has introduced MOVIFIT® Field Integrated Technology, the next generation in intelligent decentralized control.

February 10, 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

Closures

1-piece CR closure

Rexam now offers a 24mm CR Flip-Top 1-piece dispensing closure, the first size in a new dispensing series.

November 6, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Fallas Automation's Adabot™ lets packagers 'add a robot'

Built for speed and agility, new R700 Adabot™ robotic case packer tracks and picks products on the fly. But that's not all. Plug and play robot cells can be readily added for increased productivity.

October 10, 2006