Labels

Cap turns billboard in P&G cross promotion

P&G opens up a new area of the package for graphics and branding information.

January 31, 2006

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Flexibles

The wrap-up: Surprising packaging

Unexpected pairings of product and package raise editors' and consumers' awareness.

January 31, 2006

Sustainability

Five ways to better ink-jet printing

Inks are evolving as substrates, industry regulations, and customer demands change.

January 31, 2006

Labels

P&G extends branding to cap, meeting tight launch timetable

Distinctive on-cap shrink-sleeve label clarifies new product varieties in cross-promotion for Tide with Febreze while also passing rigorous production-line requirements.

December 31, 2005

Controls & machine components

Automation show joins WestPack

Complementing WestPack when it hits the Anaheim Convention Center January 31 is ATX, which will feature the latest in automation/assembly systems.

December 31, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

SICK, Inc: SICK, Inc: Incremental encoder

Sick Stegmann has introduced the DGS60 incremental encoder, a rugged, IP67-rated encoder available with resolution to 10ꯠ pulses for precise, reliable operation in tough environmental conditions.

December 31, 2005

Flexibles

LLDPE resins

Dow Chemical Co. launched 6 new Dowlex™ PE resins and one new Elite™ EPE resin, which will be manufactured using hexene comonomer. The Dowlex resins are suitable for liners and unitizing films requiring easy processing, toughness, puncture resistance, good tear resistance, impact resistance, and hot tack strength.

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Privacy and RFID

Are privacy concerns about RFID valid or conspiracy-theory paranoid?

December 31, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

Broadening perspectives

As we begin the new year, Packaging World will begin a new format for this space that will offer a much wider look at packaging issues than ever before.

December 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Contract soap packer enhances capacity, efficiency

Stahl Soap installs new U.S.-sourced horizontal flow-wrapper and servo-feed conveyor to meet special customer equirements.

December 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

High-volume retailers pile demands on packaging

Retailers expect a lot from packaging, and few require more than club stores and other high-volume outlets.

December 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

Healthcare packaging pros discuss critical issues

Healthcare packaging experts discuss counterfeiting, packaging and personalized medicine, oil/resin pricing concerns, and material and machinery advances.

December 31, 2005

Beverage

Packaging an icon

The aura of Marilyn Monroe continues to raise eyebrows, this time in a sensuously designed boxed bottle of wine.

December 31, 2005