Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ringnes taps RFID

Norway’s largest brewery uses RFID to reduce bottlenecks for tracking large shipping containers and finds several unexpected benefits.

July 1, 2009

Machinery: Page 607

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation

Product development costs discourage pharmaceutical packaging innovation, says Packaging Hall of Fame inductee Edward J. Bauer, senior director, product and package innovation and development, for Pittsburgh-based General Nutrition Centers.

July 1, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bottled water gets 100% compostable labels

In the Summer of 2008, Pure Pacific International, Inc., Glendale, CA, launched Aloha Pure Water and Aloha Deep Water in PET bottles with 8- and 9-color Earth-First®, corn-based, PLA (polyactic acid) full-body shrink-sleeve labels.

July 1, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Cleaner-product packaging spruces up

Leather CPR, Los Angeles, maker of premium leather cleaners and conditioners, granite cleaners and polishes, and carpet spot and stain removers, adopted new labeling for its products in early 2008.

July 1, 2009

Cartoning

The key to going fast is to not go slow

The idea of a high-speed Midwest rail network based around Chicago is picking up some serious steam in Washington.

July 1, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

In-mold labels save trees

Lloyd’s Barbeque Co., a div. of Hormel Foods Corp. recently introduced new sustainable plastic tub packaging with in-mold labeling.

June 30, 2009

Sustainability

A 1-L PET bottle for wine

Already a leader in bringing good wines to PET containers, Boisset Family Estates has struck again with Fog Mountain Merlot in a 1-L PET bottle made of oxygen-scavenging material.

June 30, 2009

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Continuous in-line skin-packaging

The SK series continuous inline protective skin packaging machine from Visual Packaging can continuously skin pack large products such as air ducts, garage door rail sets, solar panels, and a variety of other products.

June 30, 2009

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

High-speed f/f/s machine

WeighPack’s XPdius Elite VFS high speed v/f/f/s machine provides easy access to all operating functions.

June 30, 2009

Secondary Packaging

Glen Long joins Delkor as VP

Delkor Systems Inc. has appointed Glen A. Long Vice President.

June 29, 2009

Filling/capping, dry

Cozzoli Machine Co. to produce sterile powder filling line

Now in development from Cozzoli Machine Co. is a line for filling antibiotic powders into vials in a sterile pharmaceutical environment.

June 24, 2009

Secondary Packaging

Pro Mach's Wexxar division acquires IPak

Pro Mach, Inc. announces that its Wexxar Packaging division has acquired IPak Machinery Ltd., a leading designer and manufacturer of corrugated tray forming solutions based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

June 23, 2009

Secondary Packaging

High-Speed CAMA Cartoners from Harpak

Harpak is the exclusive North American distributor of CAMA High-Speed Cartoning equipment. CAMA also offers state-of-the-art high speed case packers, sleevers and robotics.

June 22, 2009