Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Ripeness indicator proves fruitful

A sensor label puts science into the art of determining a pear’s ripeness.

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Flexibles

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

May 31, 2004

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Bar-code barriers

Pharmaceutical companies will wrestle with packaging design and production challenges over the next two years.

May 31, 2004

Sustainability

Packaging security: in-store measures remain essential

Responding to retailer needs, clamshell blisters answer theft threats. Yet some packagers look for less costly alternatives.

May 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

HealthPack shines in Florida

Medical device packaging issues are addressed before a record crowd at HealthPack 2004.

May 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Traceable Solutions for Medical Packaging

The demand for safety and integrity in the area of medical packaging has taken on new and significant implications in the past two or three years. Always an area of concern, medical packaging has addressed issues like child safety, correct dosage, patient traceability, tampering and diversion of pharmaceuticals.

May 31, 2004

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'The way packaging should be done'

Twin blister-pack lines populated by ‘best-in-class’ machines played a key role as Schering-Plough took its Claritin-brand product from prescription-only to OTC status. See video

May 31, 2004

Cartoning

IWK launches blister machines

At its June 16-17 open house, IWK PacSystems will demonstrate the first of a new series of IWK blister packing machines, the advanced BP Series, which are automated with ELAU’s PacDrive automation system.

April 30, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Stonyfield opts for in-line tf/f/s

For four years, Stonyfield Farm filled its 4-oz YoBaby organic yogurts for babies and toddlers into injection-molded polypropylene cups, with six filled and lidded cups automatically unitized in a wraparound paperboard carton.

April 30, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Marking Mister Cookie Face

This ice cream sandwich manufacturer settled on seven new ink-jet coding systems after old units performed poorly in wet plant conditions.

April 30, 2004

Sustainability

Unimark named Plastic News' Processor of the Year

Unimark Plastics is the winner of Plastics News’ Processor of the Year Award, the newspaper announced Feb. 2 at its Executive Forum in Summerlin.

March 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

DVD case now for software

When Eidos looked to package its multi-disc game software, Commandos 3: Destination Berlin and Deus Ex: Invisible War for North America, it selected the slim triple Alphapak from Nexpak.

March 31, 2004

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Companies

DT Packaging Systems, comprising the Lakso, Merrill, Kalish, Swiftpack, and King brands of packaging machinery, will now be called Nova Packaging Systems.

March 31, 2004