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

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

The guru's 20 tips for labeling on plastic

President Ted Williams of SpectraGraphics, Lenexa, KS, shares 25 years of experience via 20 little-known tips for successful labeling on plastic materials.

June 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

UF juiced for R&D

The University of Florida’s packaging department kicks off with a full slate of applied research projects including these for food and RFID.

June 30, 2004

Labels

UF juiced for R&D (sidebar)

UF’s RFID portals proliferateSee video

June 30, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Smooth performer

O/K Intl’s Superpacker’s improved communications set in motion faster, smoother case packing.

June 30, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Flood of fake packaging

Congress takes up bills aimed at fighting counterfeiters of packaging that is imported and used in the United States.

June 30, 2004

Sustainability

Packagers focus on graphics

At the May e/5 UV&EB Technology Expo and Conference, P&G, Mars/Masterfoods, and Bacardi were among several consumer packaged goods companies embracing glossy packages with coatings cured via ultraviolet or electron-beam technology.

June 30, 2004

Converting equipment

UF packaging history: Short and illustrious

Packaging World presents more information about the University of Florida’s Packaging Science program than could fit into the July 2004 feature article.

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Servo Magnetics Inc: Brushless DC motor

Servo Magnetics offers a compact, low-inertia, 12-volt, 2-wire brushless DC motor that is designed to facilitate drop-in replacement of a conventional brush motor.

May 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

IMI Norgren, Inc: Multi-position airless cylinder

Norgren has extended its range of actuator solutions with the launch of its new multi-position airless cylinder. Moves loads to 22 lb and operates at high speeds.

May 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Linear Motion and Assembly Tech.: Bosch Rexroth Linear Motion and Assembly Tech.: Bosch Rexroth Linear Motion and Assembly Tech.: Linear motion component brochure

Bosch Rexroth has published a 14-page color brochure called “Precision in Motion” from its Linear Motion and Assembly Technologies business unit. Brochure provides an overview of the company’s linear motion products, including a description of components.

May 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Schering-Plough: Blister pack forming/filling for Claritin

From a feed bowl, tablets are fed into formed blisters via a Cam Pak thermoform/fill/seal system. Once lidding is applied, blister packs move through an inspection station from SEA Vision (represented in the U.S. by Calia Technical Inc.) and then on to a punch station.

May 31, 2004

Cartoning

Schering-Plough: Cartoning and checkweighing of blister packs

Individual blister packs are mechanically fed into a flighted conveyor that brings them a short distance downstream to where they are inserted into folding cartons via a Marchesini cartoner. Thermal ink-jet coding, powered by Hewlett-Packard and supplied by Nutec, code inspection, also part of the Nutec system, and checkweighing (from Optima) all follow.

May 31, 2004