Coding, Printing & Labeling

California delay provides temporary relief

Uncertainty colored most discussions at a recent healthcare track-and-trace conference. A key question: How will FDA actions differ from California’s e-pedigree program?

February 1, 2009

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Flexible packaging

Capsule and liquid filling lines ease growing pains

Sports nutrition and supplement products manufacturer and co-packer All American Pharmaceutical eases growing pains with new state-of-the art capsule and liquid filling lines.

January 31, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

On spoilage indicators

There are three basic types of spoilage indicators.

January 31, 2009

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Data acquisition a good fit at vertically integrated water bottler

Packaging line analysis is never so important as it is in a rotten economy. That's when every ounce of efficiency must be wrung out of a packaging line just to keep Chapter 11 at bay.

January 28, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Quick-change front-and-back labeler

The Series 3 Premier Pressure-Sensitive Labeler from Tronics has synchronized stepper motor drive and is suitable for running various front-and-back labeling applications. Features toolless adjustments and changeover from application to application from one roll to another in minutes. Up to 99 different jobs can be stored in the controls panel.

January 27, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Versatile shrink labeling equipment

The LX-350 shrink labeler accommodates a variety of bottle shapes and sizes, operating at speeds to 400 bottles/min. Changeover parts are inexpensive and easy to adjust.

January 14, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Advanced sleeve labeling systems apply sleeve labels at very high speeds

Specifically designed for high speed runs of up to 400 products per minute, the new high-speed Label-Aire® Sleever Series Model 8500 will easily handle all industry standard sleeve materials and a wide range of container shapes and sizes.

January 8, 2009

Labels

DPT, Med-Health Pharma shed light on authentication solution

A pervasive air of secrecy makes trends in brand protection tough to track. But the following two pharmaceutical-based authentication efforts by DPT Laboratories and Med-Health Pharma shed light on some of the solutions being explored to combat counterfeiters, diverters, and gray marketers who appear to be broadening their horizons. (Alan Green, logistics director for DPT Laboratories, will discuss how the contract developer, manufacturer, and packager is implementing brand-protection strategies at the Brand-Protection Packaging Forum May 5, 2009 in Chicago.)

January 8, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Installs and start-ups

Advice from packaging machinery experts on what makes for a great install and a smooth startup.

January 7, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Risk management

Business risks related to food packaging are wide-ranging and everywhere: bisphenol-A (BPA), melamine in pet food or milk, food allergen labeling, country of origin labeling—the list seems endless.

January 7, 2009

Secondary Packaging

PCP 'can' do RFID

Pacific Coast Producers fills metal cans that hold lots of liquids.

January 7, 2009

Labels

FDA official analyzes current and future food safety efforts

The problem with thinking about how to protect the nation’s food supply is that when you get into it a little bit, it’s pretty frightening.

January 7, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

For cubing, future looks DIM

Given the new carrier rules, your company's approach to determining cube for shipments had better be on the square.

January 4, 2009