Dairy

Machine builders should know their customers' IT experts

Packaging machinery OEMs hoping to differentiate themselves on the strength of their advancements in automation technology had better begin forging relationships with their customers’ IT experts.

March 31, 2005

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Understanding middleware

This RFID Antenna exclusive debuts Markem’s new whitepaper on understanding the ambiguous world of middleware.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ross Labs' speaker extols RFID's benefits

Mike Wallace of Abbott Laboratories’ Ross Laboratories Division provides an updated look at RFID at HealthPack 2005, held in San Antonio in late March.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

METRO tests Gen 2 RFID

METRO Group, Royal Philips Electronics, and Intermec demonstrate for the first time a Generation 2 RFID system.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID Journal Live! highlights

Companies such as Tesco, P&G, Tyson Foods, and Best Buy took a practical look at RFID, including key issues like payback and privacy, at last week’s gathering.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

T&A takes RFID into the field

Tanimura & Antle’s program for Wal-Mart starts with bins of lettuce that are RFID-tagged in farm fields.

March 31, 2005

Household/Automotive

Kliklok-Woodman Intl. hires new director of operations

Kliklok-Woodman has hired Nigel Salter as director of operations of the company’s Bristol, United Kingdom, facility.

March 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Marden Edwards' new servo end-fold wrapper

75 cpm wrapper offers enhanced graphics, gentle film handling, from Marden Edwards at Interpack 2005

March 31, 2005

Closures

Meaty design

Pioneer Snacks called on Flowdesign to create a new way to package their meat snacks.

March 31, 2005

Closures

Whitener pens niche with cosmetics

Out-of-the-carton thinking for BriteSmile Inc., Walnut Creek, CA, has pushed the retail version of its product into a premium niche at cosmetics counters.

March 31, 2005

Consumer packaged goods

Oxygen absorbers for pharmaceutical packaging

Süd-Chemie offers its new PharmaKeep, a new line of oxygen absorbing canisters and packets designed to protect pharmaceutical and diagnostic products from the harmful effects of oxygen.

March 31, 2005

Recycling

Broader NY bottle bill

The New York State Assembly Committee on Codes endorsed legislation to extend the state’s deposit container law to bottles and cans of juice, iced tea, sports drinks, and water.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Splenda ads not splendid

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is calling on the makers of Splenda to change the labeling and advertising of the increasingly popular artificial sweetener.

March 31, 2005