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Sustainability

An update on RFID at HP

Hewlett-Packard is both a provider and user of RFID technology.

April 30, 2005

Secondary Packaging

More on RFID from K-C and Wal-Mart

Mike O'Shea discloses more details about RFID at Kimberly-Clark and Simon Langford updates Wal-Mart's experiences.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pacific Cycle shifts into RFID

Pacific Cycle deploys item-level RFID for its boxed bicycles.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Item-level RFID study contrasts warehouse and retail benefits

Findings point to retailers benefiting most from eventual electronic replacement of bar codes.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart's RFID program: Paying back suppliers

When Wal-Mart first came out with its mandate for RFID compliance, many were skeptical that this initiative would have any benefit for the suppliers that were being forced to comply.

April 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Sidebar

• A Kaps-All AU-3 unscrambler that places high-density polyethylene bottles onto a conveyor. Glass bottles are loaded on a feed table that are fed into a [b]McBrady[n] Model #200 Orbit bottle cleaner that uses air to do the job before placing bottles back onto the conveyor.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

What skills will you need to succeed in healthcare packaging?

Survey respondents identify knowledge of validation and regulatory issues, as well as materials expertise as critical.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

IBM launches RFID on RPCs

IBM will track and trace assets between France and Ireland using RFID-enabled reusable plastic containers.

April 30, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Virtual label' upgrades medical packs

DataLase® from Sherwood Technology in the United Kingdom permits the “printing” of a virtual label directly into packaging substrates using a low-power carbon dioxide-based laser that replaces conventional print-and-apply methods.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Spitzer to probe drug tampering

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has made a career of investigating financial irregularities among banks, mutual funds and insurance firms, is now targeting drug wholesalers for potential drug tampering and mislabeling.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID Journal Live!

This year’s RFID Journal Live!

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Why so little RFID progress in pharma?

If the use of RFID technology makes sense anywhere in the field of packaging—and I believe it makes a lot of sense in a great many places—the one place where it should be recognized as an obvious problem solver is in drug packaging.

April 30, 2005