Controls & Machine Components

Kollmorgen: Interactive Web community

Patterned after a typical design cycle, Kollmorgen’s (Radford, VA) Motion Village™ is described as an online Web community designed to provide resources and engineering solutions as a way to increase machine design engineer productivity.

August 31, 2001

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Controls & Machine Components

The Kennedy Group: Nameplate identification

The nameplate identification system from The Kennedy Group (Willoughby, OH) is said to allow users to permanently and inexpensively identify and track reusable containers, racks, pallets, and other products that require tracking and asset management.

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

European flexible packaging

A majority of flexible packaging converters in Western Europe are struggling financially, due to a combination of upward price pressures from suppliers and cost-cutting pressure from end-use customers.

August 31, 2001

Protective/transport packaging

Rising demand for foamed plastics, plastics equipment

According to the Freedonia Group’s “Foamed Plastics” study ($3꺜), the demand for foamed plastics in the United States is predicted to rise nearly 3% per year to 7.8 billion lb in 2005.

August 31, 2001

Converting equipment

PEF announces four inductees

Four career packaging professionals will be inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame by the Packaging Education Forum during its annual Leadership Awards ceremonies Monday, September 10, at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. The event will occur during Pack Expo Las Vegas, Sept. 10-12 at the Sands Exposition & Convention Center.

August 31, 2001

Labeling

Mixed views on fresh meat labeling

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is getting mixed responses to its 2001 proposal to allow nutrition information for most fresh meat and poultry to be displayed in posters or brochures at point of purchase (POP) rather than on package labels as it is for other food.

August 31, 2001

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Appointments, promotions

Bosch Packaging Technology (Minneapolis, MN): Ulrich Unterriker, vp, solid pharmaceutical products; John Staruch, vp, food confectionery operations.

August 31, 2001

Converting equipment

Relocations, expansions

Tetra Pak (Lund, Sweden) will sell its plastics activities in PET preform and stretch blow molding machines as part of the company’s revision of its plastics business strategy.

August 31, 2001

Flexible packaging

Wrapper does 'ryt' by contract packager

New wrapper greatly reduces material waste and labor costs while boosting productivity and employee morale.

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

Flexibles to stretch beyond $19 billion in sales (sidebar)

Mixed bag for converters

August 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Packager says out with the old, in with the new

Company replaces ink-jet coding system to enhance printer flexibility and the legibility of its code, saving time and money.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging trails the networked future (sidebar)

Methodology

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging trails the networked future (sidebar)

Respondents: Machine builders lack networking expertise

August 31, 2001