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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Controls & Machine Components
What makes interpack so important?
Guest editorial: the biggest packaging show on earth is also among the most influential. Plenty of corporate packaging machinery buyers from the Fortune 500 attend. Why do only 10% of North American OEMs exhibit there? By John Kowal ELAU Inc. Global Marketing Manager
February 4, 2008
Other Packaged Goods: Page 143
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Robotic trends in packaging
Part 2 of a 2-part series on trends in packaging robotics. (Our previous report explored reasons for the proliferation of purpose-built robotic capabilities in packaging machine designs. This concluding article looks at applications and design considerations for OEMs.)
January 30, 2008
Cartoning
Embedding robotic functionality in packaging machinery
Part 1 of a 2-part series explores the trend toward packaging machinery integrating purpose-built robotic capabilities.
January 21, 2008
Additives, coatings & inks
Light stabilizers
Ciba has introduced Novel Encapsulated Additives Technology (NEAT) to enable equivalent UV protection in waterborne coatings as that of high-performance light stabilizers in solvent-borne coatings.
January 11, 2008
Controls & Machine Components
High-performing micro-drive
The new V1000 adjustable frequency drive from Yaskawa is said to be the world’s smallest, while offering a large menu of performance- and efficiency-enhancing features.
January 11, 2008
Closures
Artegraft switches to copolyester for vascular graft tubes
Company transitions from cylindrical glass culture tubes for its collagen vascular grafts to a copolyester-based tube with a flat side, helping to prevent breakage and save money.
January 10, 2008
Converting equipment
Cooperation proves critical in tube manufacturing
In this Q&A, Mel O’Leary, Jr., president and CEO of Meredith-Springfield Associates, describes how copolyester resin and supplier cooperation helped make the Artegraft tube.
January 10, 2008
Consumer packaged goods
Concentrated, bottled plant food cultivates convenience
At its facility in Fort Madison, IA, The Scotts Company is producing sleeved 4-packs and 2-packs of 16-oz plastic bottles of Miracle-Gro LiquaFeed All Purpose Plant Food.
January 10, 2008
Flexible packaging
2007 Pack Expo selects winner
Fold-over blister for Shure Music Phone Adapter from Shure Inc. received the highest number of votes in the 2007 Pack Expo Selects competition sponsored by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute.
January 10, 2008
Flexibles
Comments on Changes in Dec. 2007 Chemistry Recommendations
Below are the insights and comments of Kristina E. Paquette, PhD on FDA’s December 2007 revisions to its Chemistry Recommendations guidance document. Dr. Paquette had served as a chemist in FDA’s Office of Food Additive safety until mid-2007, and was personally involved in developing some of the revisions.
January 9, 2008
Sustainability
The evolution of natural as a lifestyle choice
It’s all about stewardship, life, and energy, and it’s playing out in the beauty and health and wellness categories.
January 9, 2008
Contract Packaging
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December 9, 2007
Consumer packaged goods
DVD package built with sustainable 'ark-itecture'
Evan Almighty launches in a special, paper-based DVD package in Canada.
December 6, 2007
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