Coding, Printing & Labeling

U.K. research shows interest in carbon labels by consumers

Shift in shopping habits and consumer insights indicate support by U.K. consumers for carbon labeling of their food products.

February 5, 2010

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

High-accuracy labeler hugs honey bears

Golden Heritage Foods, LLC, Van Wert, OH, produces honey products and packages them in bear-shaped PET containers supplied by custom blowmolder Container Services, Inc..

February 5, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Front apply label printer/applicator

Tharo’s PA1200fa printer/applicator can print and apply labels to the leading side of a product moving down a conveyor.

February 5, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Air-blow label applicator

Label-Aire’s 3111-NV air-blow primary applicator provides high-speed air-blow labeling at a standard dispense speed of up to 1,500 in. (38.1 m) of web/minute or up to 2,000 in. (50.8 m) with optional powered rewind.

February 4, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

NutriTalk releases top ten nutrition trends for 2010

Can packaging suppliers predict growth areas based on these insights?

January 29, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Details on fifth annual Walmart sustainability expo explored

Learn from Walmart’s Ron Sasine and Sam’s Club’s Robert Parvis the goals of this year’s expo, including the role of GreenerPackage.com in providing a complementary virtual trade show available all year long.

January 21, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Suggested changes for food labels

In December of last year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest suggested an overhaul of the nutrition facts label found on packaged foods. The recommendations center around making the labels more user friendly, but create controversy in the industry.

January 19, 2010

Tamper-evident machinery

When it comes to food safety, perception is reality

It’s no secret that food safety is a hot-button issue these days.

January 8, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

They're baaack: Consumer group wants food label changed...again

Ah, the food label, the Great Crossroads, the Window into the American Soul, where contemporary issues relating to diet and health are revealed and battled over, a town square where the features the food industry wants to tout and consumers care about are trumpeted or whispered about, with government agencies looking over everyone’s shoulder.

January 7, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling revisions take aim against medication errors

The U.S. Pharmacopeia proposes revisions to ferrules and cap overseal labeling.

January 6, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Simple, sustainable design for organic dairy and meat and cheese packaging--got it half right?

Lindsay Perkins’ packaging for organic farm products from Maine really delivers on so many points, misses the mark on a few.

December 15, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Alka-Seltzer labeling blunder leads to recall

Labeling on foil blister cards was printed in reverse for less than 4% of the packages in the lot.

December 10, 2009

Labeling

New packaging machinery DVD

ELAU's new DVD shows videos and animations of advanced PacDrive™ equipped machinery in action. You’ll see why our slogan is "On the best machines."

December 8, 2009