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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Virtual label' upgrades medical packs

DataLase® from Sherwood Technology in the United Kingdom permits the “printing” of a virtual label directly into packaging substrates using a low-power carbon dioxide-based laser that replaces conventional print-and-apply methods.

April 30, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Robotic workcell boosts output

A new workcell improves injection molder Mar-Lee’s production efficiency and provides benefits for its customers.

April 30, 2005

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

Case-ready meat is hitting its stride

As more meat packaging is centralized, processors are finding ways to keep meat fresh longer. But how best accomplish that?

April 30, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Innovation award winner (sidebar)

Carded PackagingBlisterguard® Security PackageManufacturer: Colbert Packaging Corp.

April 30, 2005

Flexibles

Onions take to thermoforms

For both foodservice and retail channels, Gills Onions is now offering rigid packaging as an alternative to flexible film bags.

April 30, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Moving an 'industrial' brand into home décor

Chapin achieves double-digit sales increase by restaging lawn and garden sprayers as gender-neutral and calling attention to product benefits that consumers care about.

April 30, 2005

Flexibles

Retort pouches convey freshness in mushrooms

Grupo Ayecue, a manufacturer and marketer of mushrooms in Spain, has a reputation in Europe as a pioneering research and development company.

April 30, 2005

Sustainability

interpack insights

The buzz at the über-sized interpack packaging show in Germany included integration, function-block technology, Rx ‘pens,’ simplicity, esthetics, and concern for machinery ‘made in China.’

April 30, 2005

Converting equipment

Packaging 'Payback'

Sonoco creates economies of scale that accelerate speed-to-market and reduce obsolescence in helping manufacturers meet the emphasis on outsourced packaging that works at retail.

March 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

From interpack 2005!

A glimpse at some of the innovative new packaging machines introduced at the interpack show in Dusseldorf, Germany this week.

March 31, 2005

Cartoning

Pester's 'pac robot'

A new generation of robotic modules without proprietary robot controllers

March 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

High-speed blister card machine

MGS Machine Corp.

March 31, 2005