Consumer packaged goods

People

Jerry Bennish was appointed vice president, strategy-Americas; and Tom Cochran vice president, sales & marketing for U.S healthcare and personal care businesses for Amcor Flexibles.

February 28, 2006

Industries: Page 510

Secondary Packaging

Companies

Phoenix Closures, Inc.

February 28, 2006

Additives, coatings & inks

Science of fresh white paper

DuPont's Dr. Donna L. Visioli examines the contemporary meaning of freshness.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging Automation Forum to debut in Chicago

The Packaging Automation Forum is a one day event held at the Chicago Marriott on May 24, 2006.

January 31, 2006

Sustainability

Packaging machinery OEMs and buyers of packaging machinery talk turkey at Ipack-Ima

Presented in conjunction with Ipack-Ima, the Italian packaging show just held February 14-18 in Milan, was a half-day event called Global Packaging Managers & Equipment Suppliers Forum.

January 31, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Building better bonds between makers and buyers of packaging machinery

People I talked to at Ipack-Ima 2006, held February 14-18 in an architectural wonderland called Fiera Milano on the outskirts of Milan, were cautiously hoping that the show may be a sign that economic recovery is on the way.

January 31, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

First labeler retrofit with award-winning ELAU servos

Yakama Juice plant manager Jack West says “when K2 said they could do everything on one machine, I was really impressed.”

January 31, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

TI's well-calculated Gen 2 RFID rollout

Texas Instruments' E&PS calculator business unit did its homework before it became the first Wal-Mart supplier to tag cases of product using Gen 2 RFID technology.

January 31, 2006

Cartoning

Coordinate package design with machinery capabilities

At the Package Design 2006 Conference, designers saw how innovative package designs sometimes require all-new machine designs – and why it pays to collaborate with packaging engineering up front.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

General Mills on packaging controls

Gregg Stedronsky, director of packaging engineering at General Mills, shared these thoughts recently in a phone conversation:

January 31, 2006

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Food service packaging/bag machine

Food service items such as sauces, stews, refried beans, and other similar products can be packaged on General Packaging Equipment's Model 642WLC vf/f/s machine in 7.5 L to 2 gallon packs.

January 31, 2006

Beverage

Former Baldor CEO and Chairman passes away

Roland S. Boreham, Jr., CEO of Baldor Electric Company from 1978 to 1981 and Chairman from 1981 through 2004, passed away on Sunday, February 5.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: HMIs for LabVIEW

Engineers and scientists can now use National Instruments’ new flat-panel touch-screen, touch-panel computer and panel PC HMI with the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment to develop user interfaces.

January 31, 2006