Sustainability

K-C's take on RFID

Kimberly-Clark’s Mike O’Shea discloses lessons learned in RFID, including why it operates a ‘dirty’ RFID lab.

March 31, 2005

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

The Practical RFID Deployment Guide: Technology, Benefits, Costs, Challenges, and Proven

Whatever your industry or application, RFID Field Guide is your comprehensive guide to planning, designing, and deploying RFID technology into your business.

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

Coding, Printing & Labeling

To Slap and Ship or Not?

The experts from Cleritec Systems, an RFID consultancy, provide a five-step guide to this basic, crucial question.

March 31, 2005

Cartoning

Pester's 'pac robot'

A new generation of robotic modules without proprietary robot controllers

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Allergen-labeling studies

As part of the new law that requires companies to list the presence of known allergens on food labels, FDA is conducting a consumer survey involving 1ꯠ people with allergies or their caregivers to determine how they prefer to have the allergy-related information presented on labels.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA examining use of color in drug packaging

The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research held a public hearing on the current practice of using colors on pharmaceutical product packaging and labeling to help identify, classify, and differentiate drug products.

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

Labeling

COOL labeling adjustments requested

The Food Marketing Institute has asked the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture to make further adjustments to its Interim Final Rule for mandatory country-of-origin labeling of fish and shellfish.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Industry-government clash in Britain over nutrition labels

Efforts by several large food manufacturers to include more nutrition information on packages are creating a rift with Britain’s Food Standards Agency, which hopes to adopt its own labeling recommendations later this year.

March 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Corner labeler

EPI’s Corner Labeling System applies labels to the corners of packages so that batch and product data can be seen on 2 sides of the case. Capable of being integrated with most case packing lines, the labeler is easy to set up and operate and has been engineered to operate 24/7 with low maintenance requirements.

March 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Cost-optimizing new-product development

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies may be able to bring greater efficiency to new product development if more thought is given early on to how a new product ripples through the company’s supply chain.

March 31, 2005