Sustainable Packaging

How to achieve product differentiation? Don't stop there!

Most consumers’ shopping patterns are hardly rational. Engage them with package designs that use a consumer-focused mind-set rather than a product-oriented one.

October 31, 2005

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Cartoning

Are you ready for lean design?

Opening presenter at PMMI’s annual meeting, ELAU NA president Christopher Zei described how packaging machine OEMs can reduce Total Cost to Develop along with packagers’ TCO.

October 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

PackML and PackTags in use at SABMiller

SABMiller in its Newlands Brewery near Cape Town, South Africa, is among the early adapters of PackML, an OMAC standard that defines machine states.

October 31, 2005

Flexibles

Nestlé's Traitler on equipment requirements

“We need increased flexibility from packaging equipment, yet if we sacrifice speed in achieving flexibility, we can’t achieve true cost optimization.”

October 31, 2005

Cartoning

BevOps covers advances in packaging machinery

Conference covers the technology revolution in beverage packaging machinery introduced at 3 recent trade shows.

October 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Product focus: Tamper-evident RFID tags

Smart&Secure technology fights product counterfeiting, diversion, and tampering in the supply chain at a 10% premium to typical RFID tags.

October 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID in healthcare

What are the primary benefits RFID can deliver for pharmaceutical packagers?

October 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

RFID value beyond compliance

Former Sara Lee exec Ray Hagedorn shares that company's lessons as he emphasizes looking for value in RFID.

October 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Psst: The privacy world of RFID

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

October 31, 2005

Flexibles

ISO Poly Films makes organizational changes

ISO Poly Films, Inc. recently announced key organizational changes to support its growth efforts.

October 31, 2005

Beverage

3-D printed prototypes

The Spectrum Z510 Full Color System from Z Corp. produces high-definition prototypes quickly and affordably. Ink-jet printing technology creates parts with crisply defined features, enhanced accuracy, and precise color for evaluating physical models of design concepts in their nearly finished state.

October 31, 2005

Spirits/liquors

Tape applicator

3M has introduced the next generation semi-automatic 3M-Matic™ S-867, an “L” clip tape applicator that instantly applies 9mm to 36mm tapes at speeds to 50 “L” clips/min.

October 31, 2005

Flexibles

High-barrier lamination

Ampac’s Converted Products Div. has launched Flexi 2122, a high-barrier foil lamination with Barex® for hard-to-hold products such as aggressive liquids, gels, or solids whose formulation has a tendency to attack traditional structures.

October 31, 2005