Coding, Printing & Labeling

Handbook covers RFID labeling

RFID Labeling is basically a 211-page white paper in the form of a softbound handbook that’s timely, packaging-centric, useful and will be available free at Pack Expo.

September 30, 2004

Machinery: Page 805

Controls & Machine Components

North America 'discovers' ELAU at PACK EXPO

Progressive OEMs exploit automation technology that equips the best European machines.

September 30, 2004

Filling/capping, dry

First US servo capper from Pneumatic Scale

At PACK EXPO, Pneumatic Scale launches the first US rotary servo-driven bottle capper.

September 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Real-world RFID: An expert speaks

In this exclusive interview, RFID expert John Greaves of Deloitte Consulting separates RFID myth from reality, while calling on packagers to “seize the moment.”

September 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Capmatic servo filler is flexible, precise

New piston filler uses ELAU’s PacDrive for fast fills accurate to +/- 0.2%, regardless of bottle geometry.

September 30, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Capper/plugger

E-Pak offers its new Rotary Chuck Capper/plugger with a variety of head configurations. Machine is constructed of stainless steel and aluminum. It is capable of handling 2-oz to 2.5-gal containers and caps from 10-120 mm in dia.

September 30, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Little consensus over child resistance testing for unit dose packaging

Leading drug manufacturers as well as packaging suppliers are locking horns over changes to child-resistant packaging test standards. Wide differences of opinion have emerged as the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) considers a change to its test requirements for child-resistant unit-dose (U-D) packaging that was proposed by the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC).

September 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Igus Inc: Plain and Spherical Bearings and Linear Guide Systems

Updated iglide® bearings catalog showcases high-performance plastic bearings made from engineered polymers. Plastic bearings are lubrication-free, maintenance-free, and corrosion resistant.

August 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corp.: Wrapping, stacking and pouching of carded vials

Vials in card form are stacked and then pouched via a Sinlon S.L. Package Machine flow wrapper, represented in the U.S. by Marpak. After precise weighing on a Hi-Speed Checkweigher machine to confirm pouch counts, the pouches travel on a conveyor section to where they are manually inspected before cartoning.

August 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Trends in machine control

“Logic and motion control, human-machine interaction, diagnostics—even intelligence—in a single device is today’s machine control.”

August 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

ARC study on RFID systems

If any manufacturing sector is ripe for implementation of RFID systems for product tracking through the supply chain, it’s pharmaceuticals.

August 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Make2Pack update

On August 17-19, at Pfizer’s offices in Peapack, NJ, the World Batch Forum-sponsored joint working group that is focusing on developing a standard to address automation techniques and approaches useable across all of manufacturing held its first meeting.

August 31, 2004

Palletizing/depalletizing

North America 'discovers' ELAU

Progressive OEMs and packagers exploit PacDrive automation technology in machines to debut at PACK EXPO 2004

August 31, 2004