Controls & Machine Components

OMAC Packaging workgroup rebuttal

Editor’s note: When our resident packaging automation blogger Keith Campbell (www.ontheedgeblog.com) posted some comments on OMAC and its mission, it prompted the OMAC Packaging Workgroup Executive Committee to send in a rebuttal of sorts. On this and the adjacent page, we bring you the blog and the rebuttal.

June 2, 2008

Industries: Page 432

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC should maintain a simple focus on packaging

Editor’s note: When our resident packaging automation blogger Keith Campbell (www.ontheedgeblog.com) posted some comments on OMAC and its mission, it prompted the OMAC Packaging Workgroup Executive Committee to send in a rebuttal of sorts. On this and the adjacent page, we bring you the blog and the rebuttal.

June 2, 2008

Beverage

Brand - protection packaging forum

At the first Brand-Protection Packaging Forum (www.packworld.com/bppf), leading brand owners such as Intel Corp., HP, Liz Claiborne, Lexmark, Catalent (see story, page 69), Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and Johnson & Johnson Medical Device and Diagnostics shared their strategies for securing brand image and product integrity using the latest packaging materials and technologies. Held at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg April 8 and produced by Summit Publishing Co. with BPCouncil.com as a supporting association, this educational and networking conference was attended by more than 115 professionals.

June 1, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Catalent expert addresses turnkey serialization

Catalent Pharma Solution’s Akan Oton provides a contract manufacturer/packager’s perspective on serialization, authentication, and track-and-trace technologies in pharmaceutical distribution.

June 1, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Beating the e-Pedigree deadline

The January 2009 e-Pedigree deadline set by California may have been pushed back two years, but that didn’t stop Biogen Idec from forging ahead with a solution.

June 1, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Direct print brings direct benefits to bag coding

Galloway’s move from labels brings real-time coding changes to foodservice bags of BIB frozen dairy products.

June 1, 2008

Flexibles

Lamb stays fresher longer with EU import

Superior Farms, Davis, CA, has made news again with its innovative packaging for lamb.

June 1, 2008

Flexibles

Chicken pack says 'so long' to tray

Murray’s Chicken, New City, NY, says that it has advanced its company’s level of eco-awareness with the introduction of new case-ready packaging for its fresh poultry products.

June 1, 2008

Secondary Packaging

The changing face of case-ready packaging

A new study tracks case-ready packaging trends in the fresh meat case, but will a reversal in Wal-Mart’s meat-packaging strategy set these statistics on a new course?

June 1, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Automated pick-and-place replaces manual operations

Kao ‘K.O.s’ labor cost inefficiencies, while improving production rates.

June 1, 2008

Consumer packaged goods

HDPE bottle handles the pressure

Custom container meets demands for ultra-pure, pressure-resistant package.

June 1, 2008

Sustainability

Sustainability News & Events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

June 1, 2008

Tamper-evident machinery

Does new bill hold future of FDA?

If you look at this stuff, about all you can say is, ‘Oh, man.’

June 1, 2008