Flexible packaging

Flexible films find gold in FPA awards

Vacuum skin packaging, gorgeous stand-up pouches, and a WHO winner with life-saving potential are among the highlights in this year’s FPA competition.

March 1, 2009

Machinery: Page 616

Secondary Packaging

Jim Beam achieves 'softer', more flexible case packing

High-speed, low-breakage packing of glass bottles is a must.

February 28, 2009

Labels

V-8 ventures into vending machines

Campbell Soup's entry into the vending machine market is via 12-oz hot-filled PET containers.

February 26, 2009

Secondary Packaging

Optimizing the packaging-sustainability alliance

The trend of sustainability executives provides packaging professionals with opportunities for increased visibility, reliance, and clout.

February 26, 2009

Secondary Packaging

Cartoners are designed for 24-hours operation, seven days a week

These Cama high-speed cartoners from Harpak have been developed and improved during the years to create high-performance and reliable machines to be integrated in complete production lines for biscuits, cereals, powders, yoghurt, ready meals, ice creams etc.

February 25, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID: Curbing shrink in a tight economy

RFID offers the promise to help curb shrink.

February 24, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

37% of RFID users expect one-year ROI

Lack of data constrains investment and deployment.

February 24, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Accurate and affordable top/bottom labeling system at 80 ppm

A video from Quadrel Labeling systems illustrates a custom top/bottom machine applying wipe-on labels to individually shrink-wrapped soap bars.

February 23, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Thoughts on data collection

The ability to collect data from the packaging line and use it in a meaningful way is one trend that is only beginning to pick up steam. Just ask Wyeth's Kevin Constable.

February 19, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pressure sensitive labeler for multi-panel application

A video from Exact Packaging shows a two label tamp application for shipping cases. The video captures the labeling process from a number of perspectives and gives the viewer a fast, effective look at a rugged, easy to use, and no hassle label dispenser.

February 19, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pressure-Sensitive labels ideal for slider/zipper packages

Consumers increasingly want a way to reclose their perishable-content packages without resorting to either rubber-banding, chip clips, or transferring the contents to a storage container. In this White Paper from EPI Exact Packaging, find out the cost-effective alternative for labeling slider/zipper packages: pressure-sensitive reseal labels, which cost just pennies per package and offer consumers an easy way to reclose bags.

February 18, 2009

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Promotional labeling and insertion: gaining buy-in from Production

New white paper from EPI Exact Packaging explains how Marketing's plans for promotional efforts through in-pack or on-pack labels or promotional pieces can help gain buy-in from an essential group: Production.

February 18, 2009

Controls & Machine Components

Griffin-Rutgers' Codajet 1000 ink jet printer prints simultaneously on two sides of carton and top

The Codajet 1000 is a low-cost, ink efficient, compact printer that allows users to control 4 print heads from one controller.

February 9, 2009