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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Round PP containers with printing options

PACK EXPO : Placon offered its HomeFresh™ round PP deli containers with printing options, the PastaPak®, a 2-piece APET container, and expanded cell phone accessory clamshells at Pack Expo International 2004.

October 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Servo-controlled food-grade wrapper

PACK EXPO : George Gordon Associates announced its AccuWrap™ FG-2000W seven-axis, servo-controlled, food-grade wrapper with wash-down capability for the most food-friendly wrapper in the industry at Pack Expo International 2004.

October 31, 2004

Controls & machine components

PC-based real-time monitoring software

PACK EXPO : Safeline demonstrated at Pack Expo International 2004 a new software/hardware combination designed to connect and monitor a network of metal detectors within a plant or connect a number of plants or lines within an organization.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Frontline report: RFID glass half full

A wave of research advances portends a bright future for radio-frequency identification technology, but RFID will take time to emerge, says Frontline keynote speaker.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Debunking the 9 biggest RFID myths

Greg Gilbert, director RFID solutions and strategy, Manhattan Associates, provides an honest look at the untold truths behind the promise of radio-frequency identification technology.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tag and equipment shortage?

If Wal-Mart had insisted that all its top 100 suppliers ship all products into the Texas distribution centers with RFID tags on boxes and pallets, a shortage of RFID tags could ensue.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID reader benchmark study

Like to know exactly how RFID readers perform head-to-head under different conditions? This benchmark study tells you how four different models of radio-frequency identification tag readers performed.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Beaver Street Fisheries tests RFID waters

Beaver Street Fisheries, Jacksonville, FL, has identified vendors involved in its self-imposed radio-frequency identification program for cases of frozen fish.

October 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Interoperability on display

The OMAC Packaging Workgroup took advantage of Pack Expo International 2004 to demonstrate in action the interoperability that the OMAC Packaging Workgroup and its Connect-and-Pack™ vision is all about.

October 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Make2Pack gains momentum at Brussels meeting

A library of “control entities” recognized widely across processing and packaging functions may be among the outcomes of ongoing work being done jointly by the World Batch Forum, the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, and ISA SP-88.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tamp system for RFID labels

PACK EXPO : TampTenna™ is a new system from Diagraph that writes to an RFID-tag-enabled pressure-sensitive label while the label is on the tamp pad.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID-enabled fluid products coupling

PACK EXPO : Colder Products showed its CPC smart coupling products at its booth at Pack Expo International 2004. CPC smart coupling provides product identification and data capture for fluid applications.

October 31, 2004