Conveying & accumulation

Simpler is better

Simplified wiring requirements and a reduction in components needing to be inventoried are key gains yielded by this move toward standardization.

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Beverage

Market insights lead to product re-introduction

Increasingly, packaging innovation is originating in the supply chain. One recent example is O-I Venezuela, which identified the potential market value associated with colored glass containers and approached beverage manufacturer and marketer Cerveceria Polar.

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Dairy

With restage, brand's distribution widens

How can a regional brand of honey spread gain national distribution?

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Converting equipment

December Forecast continued

Arnie Orloski was kind enough to let me borrow his Pipeline space this month when I told him I’d run out of room for all the new developments in food and beverage packaging that overflowed from my December Forecast (see main story on page 44).

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Cartoning

Pondering the puzzle

Facing a Pandora’s box of global issues, and technological developments such as advanced machine controls and RFID, packagers of healthcare products forecast the future.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pondering the puzzle (sidebar)

Radio-frequency identification

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Higher frequency of RFID ahead

Experts assess the impact of Gen 2, recent price cuts, and other issues to discern where RFID is heading in 2006 and beyond.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Higher frequency of RFID ahead (sidebar)

Tech trend: RFID sensors

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Sustainable Packaging

Emphasizing value, from design through to package disposal

Winning strategies will focus on the needs of retailers and the consumer as both shopper and product user. Co-packers will play a bigger role in the value equation.

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Beverage

Emphasizing value, from design through to package disposal (sidebar)

The experts

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Flexible packaging

Look what's coming down the packaging pike

From sustainability to high-pressure sterilization to nanotechnology, developments in food and beverage packaging hold tremendous promise.

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Flexibles

Pondering the puzzle (sidebar)

Edible strips now deliver drugs

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Qualified health claims hard to swallow

FDA reconsiders wording as food packagers become interested in making health claims on package labels.

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