Coding, Printing & Labeling

Reality refreshes IoPP's RFID meeting

The Institute of Packaging Professionals’ Wisconsin Chapter meeting in February informed attendees that RFID’s potential is enormous, but it’s not likely a packaging panacea.

February 28, 2005

Industries: Page 559

Conveying & accumulation

MSU assesses readability problems

As research at Michigan State University shows, frequency, distances and angles, type of tag, location and orientation, influences of moisture and metals, and pallet patterns all play a part in readability.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Huge RFID case history database

IDTechEx maintains a database of more than 1괌 case studies, including 322 in the Consumer/Retail segment.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID World report

Key issues like Generation 2 and interoperability were addressed at RFID World by Wal-Mart, Kimberly-Clark, Hewlett-Packard, and others.

February 28, 2005

Consumer packaged goods

3-Panel CD Case Labeling System

NEW!

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging & Design Summit 2005

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, FLJune 27-29, 2005www.packaginganddesignsummit.com

February 28, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Lift and weigh checkweighers

The new Sonic-LW Lift-N-Weigh Checkweighers from Thompson Scale provide additional weighing options for companies that package cups filled with various condiments or blister packs that cannot be weighed with a standard checkweigher.

February 28, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC and ISA to merge

On January 17, the Board of Directors of OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Users Group announced that it had started detailed planning activities that will lead to a merger with ISA (The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society).

February 28, 2005

Flexibles

Recloseable MAP bags differentiate Farmer John's bacon

Farmer John Meats/Clougherty Packing Co., Los Angeles, CA, is marketing precooked bacon in a uniquely designed, contoured bag made of barrier film supplied by Curwood.

February 28, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Foodservice firm to use time indicator

Foodservice supplies company DayMark, Bowling Green, OH, expects to be to be the first North American user of diffusion-based expiration-date indicators from Timestrip this month when it introduces Cooler Strips.

February 28, 2005

Cosmetics/Personal care

A reality check on package design

When David Kendall, principal and creative director of Kendall Ross, a Seattle brand development and design firm, addressed students recently at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, he told them that the discipline of graphic design is being reduced to a commodity. Packaging World asked Kendall to elaborate on his perspective in the context of package development.

February 28, 2005

Beverage

Seasonal redesign

Hornall Anderson Design Works was recently called upon to complete a redesign for the Widmer Brothers’ 2004/2005 winter beer label and carrier graphics.

February 28, 2005

Beverage

New regs for flavored malt beverages

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau issued new regulations limiting the alcoholic content of flavored malt beverages.

February 28, 2005