Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Hologram's cool graphics, cooling effect improve fish package (sidebar)

A hologram on its shippers helps the Honolulu Fish Co. answer two challenges in marketing fresh fish. The first is to establish a brand identity, and the second to keep fish as fresh as possible while it is air freighted from Hawaii to the mainland.

October 31, 2004

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Secondary Packaging

Finger paint kit 'stands up' at retailer's command (sidebar)

Not only do packagers have to develop packages for specific distribution channels. Increasingly, they have to develop packages for specific retailers.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Students and industry learn at MSU

The School of Packaging at Michigan State gives its students a thorough overview of the packaging profession while also meeting CPG companies’ ongoing research needs.

October 31, 2004

Case erect/seal

Training to train

PMMI’s Certified Trainer Program has evolved into a solid two-day course in which packaging machinery OEMs and their customers are finding real value.

October 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Single controller governs vision; motion and logic

A tightly integrated controls package on this pressure-sensitive labeling system brings automation plus a 50% increase in throughput.

October 31, 2004

Confection/Candy

Robot takes 'load' off workers

Forbes Chocolate eliminated a production bottleneck when it replaced manual palletizing of multiwall bags with a robotic palletizer.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Oh, Gee...MP

Concerns about food processing sanitation may lead to packaging and labeling changes, especially for allergens.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

PMMI is RFID enabled

Radio-frequency identification will be prominent at Pack Expo Intl. 2004 through a major conference track, eye-opener speakers, and an RFID Pavilion exhibition area of more than 40 companies.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Three tips to improve your RFID label application

From compatibility to communication, these three insights may help you get smarter about 'smart labels.'

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The wrap-up: The tell-tale labeler

At a ‘haunted’ inn in Norwich, VT, a rebuilt 50-plus year-old labeler is still labeling bottles of a local microbrew.

October 31, 2004

Flexibles

Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Placement of slip sheet

Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system, marketed by Lantech, replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.

September 30, 2004

Flexibles

Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Bag attachment

Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.

September 30, 2004

Flexibles

Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Bag opening and filling

Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.

September 30, 2004