Coding, Printing & Labeling

Q&A: Used equipment helps Gavina grow

Leo Fandino, plant manager at F. Gavina & Sons, is currently overseeing the completion of a brand new plant where plenty of new packaging equipment is being installed or is on the way. But used equipment also has a role to play at this Vernon, CA gourmet coffee marketer. Here Gavina talks about that role.

April 30, 2003

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Country-of-origin law blasted

The food industry continues its efforts to get the government to change the new country-of-origin food labeling law before the 2003 voluntary marking guidelines become mandatory in 2004.

April 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Universal Labeling Systems: Specialized label sensor permits fast setup on new labeler designed f

Designed for ease of use and quick changeover, the CP1000 labeling system from Universal Labeling Systems (St. Petersburg, FL) is equipped with the Label-Eye photoelectric sensor from Tri-Tronics (Tampa, FL), which contributes to fast setup.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SATO partners with CCL Label

SATO America (Charlotte, NC) partnered with CCL Label (Rosemont, IL) whereby CCL with manufacture all RFID tags and labels for SATO America, as well as resell SATO RFID-enabled printers.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Automated Packaging to help homeland security effort

Automated Packaging was chosen by the CDC to provide packaging technologies vital to the rapid deployment initiatives of the CDC's homeland security effort.

March 31, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New antibiotics labeling

The Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule requiring labels of antibiotics and their synthetic counterparts intended for human use to bear statements about using these products in a way that reduces the development of drug-resistant strains.

March 31, 2003

Labels

Sensing success

Specialized label sensor permits fast setup on new labeler designed for contract packagers.See video

March 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

SouthPack serves up three pavilions

Running April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center, SouthPack will feature three pavilions. In the Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Packaging Pavilion, visitors will be able to source specialty equipment, medical-grade materials and supplies, kits, blister packs, and TE containers.

March 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

FDA to update drug GMPs

Requirements may be eased to help stimulate industry packaging innovation and research.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders

After orders are placed onto corrugated blanks, a scanner reads the bar code on the shipping manifest, placed on top.

February 28, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Micro Flo: Labeling of agrichemicals

Each agrichemical bottle at Micro Flo receives a pressure-sensitive label from one of two side-by-side label applicators from Videojet Technologies. When a roll of labels runs out on one machine, the other applicator is employed so that no production time is lost.

February 28, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sato hires new sales manager

Sato America (Charlotte, NC) has appointed Andrew Wright as the new western regional sales manager.

February 28, 2003