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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label it 'user-friendly'

Converter and contract labeler U.S. Tape & Label Co., St. Louis, MO, uses a versatile, quick-change labeler for a range of containers from 1 oz to several gallons in size.

June 30, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Sentry: first with all OMAC Guidelines

Sentry’s new family of tray, pad, case packing and film overwrapping machines is the first designed in the US around the OMAC Packaging Guidelines

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: Interface link

The MXI-4 high-speed serial interface link from National Instruments is compatible with the latest PCI standards found in high-performance servers and workstations.

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Laser measurement sensor

ZX laser measurement sensor system from Omron has a single amplifier unit that supports 11 different sensing heads interchangeably, eliminating the need to purchase unique amplifiers for each sensing head.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging Services Expo gains CMPA approval

UPDATE: The Packaging Services Expo recently accepted support by The Contract Manufacturing Packaging Association, a national, not-for-profit trade association for companies that offer contract manufacturing, packaging, and related business services.

June 30, 2004

Labeling

Campbell Soup selects vision system for soup cans

Campbell Soup Co., Newark, NJ, has announced that it selected the MVS-8500 vision system from Cognex Corp. to ensure proper labeling of all of its canned soups.

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

A center for excellence

Dr. Ken Ryan is director of the Center for Automation and Motion Control at Alexandria Technical College, Alexandria, MN. He’s also the chairman of OMAC Packaging Workgroup’s PackLearn group. Here he talks about establishing a center for excellence in packaging automation technology.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ban trans fat?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has petitioned FDA to prohibit the use of partially hydrogenated oil, commonly referred to as trans fat, as a food ingredient.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Net carb labeling

The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is working on draft guidance for labeling of net carbohydrates. The draft will be based on its report on obesity, which had a central thesis that “calories count.”In response to the report, the Grocery Manufacturers of America’s president and CEO C.

June 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor

A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x8-1/2’ container is quenching the troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

June 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID enabled label printers

Tharo Systems offers the Easylabel® labeling software equipped with an RFID Wizard. Printers currently supported include the RFID-enabled Zebra and Printronix thermal-transfer label printers.

June 30, 2004