Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Blister pack

First Choice Packaging Solutions offers its Virtuweld blister-pack clamshell in seven stock sizes. The blister appears welded, but it’s actually snapped together to form an undetectable seal, yet with all the benefits of being unsealed.

December 31, 2004

Household/Automotive: Page 13

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech, Inc: Aerotech Announces New Brochure

Aerotech offers automation solutions for the automotive, machine tool, assembly, and packaging industries. Aerotech is pleased to announce the availability of our new brochure “Automation Solutions for the Automotive, Machine Tool, Assembly, and Packaging Industries.” The 40-page, color brochure presents Aerotech’s multitude of motion control and positioning systems and components developed specifically for these industries.

August 31, 2004

Flexibles

Web site reflects years of data collection

EVAL Americas (www.evalca.com), a subsidiary of Kuraray Co. of Osaka, Japan, manufactures and markets ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer resins with gas barrier properties and resistance to solvents, chemicals, and hydrocarbons.

August 31, 2004

Flexibles

Nanotechnology in packaging

An emerging engineering discipline, nanotechnology continues to gain media attention for its potential in the areas of material science, electronics and optoelectronics, and biomedical science.

June 30, 2004

Flexibles

Renewable resources ride a wave of momentum

Tulane University calls its athletic teams the Green Wave, but there’s a green wave that’s building momentum in the packaging community: the increasing use of sustainable packaging made from renewable resources.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Getting smart with RFID

Automation World’s May issue presents a special feature on RFID that includes a user’s experience and a sidebar on “old school” technology: the bar code.

April 30, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Robots dissected

An exclusive survey conducted on Packworld.com shows what manufacturers are thinking when it comes to implementing a robotic packaging solution at their company.

April 30, 2004

Sustainability

Unimark named Plastic News' Processor of the Year

Unimark Plastics is the winner of Plastics News’ Processor of the Year Award, the newspaper announced Feb. 2 at its Executive Forum in Summerlin.

March 31, 2004

Household/Automotive

WD-40 blasts into wider coverage

Long used to having its namesake product fix squeaks in tight places, the WD-40 Co. also knows some things need a wide spray of the lubricant.

February 29, 2004

Controls & machine components

Cognex to host free seminars

Cognex Corp. will host a series of free machine vision seminars called Understanding and Applying Machine Vision Sensors.

January 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Getting operators to comply with packaging SOPs

What do you do when line operators ignore written standard operating procedures (SOPs), preferring to do it their own way?

December 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Ergonomic vertical cartoner

SWF Companies’ Tisma Div. offers the Victory 100, a simple, ergonomically-advanced, semi-automatic vertical cartoner capable of reaching speeds to 200 cartons/min.

December 31, 2003

Household/Automotive

Plastics lab opens at RIT

The Integrated Plastics Center, a 1걄 sq’ center with $800ꯠ worth of new equipment, has opened at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

December 31, 2003