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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Beware the fine print
To overhaul the drug warnings to physicians usually found in fine print on drug packages or package inserts, the Food and Drug Administration proposed new regulations for new prescription drug packaging.
December 31, 2000

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Labels
Over-the-top effort solves TE challenges
Arm & Hammer’s p-s TE label for its new HDPE shaker bottle of baking soda uses two types of adhesives. The duo performs tamper-evidence while it meets regulatory requirements for foods.
December 31, 2000
Church & Dwight's complex, two-layer top label deftly balances high-speed application, consumer convenience and food-grade TE re
Coding, Printing & Labeling
VA hospital tests 'talking' label
Visually impaired patients at a veterans hospital are participating in a pilot program involving a radio-frequency identification labeling system that can read aloud prescription information and instructions for a medicine.
December 31, 2000
The thermal-transfer printer/encoder 'test' machine (above) operates at a Hines Veterans Hospital outpatient pharmacy. It encode
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Carnation relaunches Coffee-mate
A new curvy-shaped, high-density polyethylene jar, decorated by a heat-shrunk roll-on label, is carrying Carnation Coffee-mate® to the marketplace.
November 30, 2000
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Cartoning
Pack Expo 2000 quick-changeover round-up
REPORTING FROM PACK EXPO: Every year machinery builders advertise quick-changeover packaging machines. As Packaging World editors walked the aisles at the recent Pack Expo show, we could not miss the new packaging machines that featured super-quick changeover times, which we'll arbitrarily define as 15 minutes or less. Here are some cartoners, case packers, a shrink bundler and a thermoformer that caught our attention.
October 31, 2000
R.A. Jones' CMV2 vertical cartoner has a 15-min, almost toolless, changeover.
Secondary Packaging
Economical shipping/display case
REPORTING FROM PACK EXPO: Vitners snack products, is the first user of an economical display case from Weyerhaeuser.
October 31, 2000
The white corrugated box from Weyerhaeuser is strong enough for stacking . . .
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID tags metal beer kegs
REPORTING FROM PACK EXPO: Metal-iTag™, a new metal asset tracking solution from Marconi's InfoChain div. (Wood Dale, IL), was displayed on empty beer kegs at its booth. Marconi’s Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology offers real-time product identification. Metal-iTag is currently being beta tested with all major brewers nationwide, according to Marconi.
October 31, 2000
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
UK firms are out to shorten time to market
Sainsbury’s will soon implement a sophisticated RFID tag system to better manage its chilled foods distribution, while ICI Paints evaluates digital asset management.
October 31, 2000
Wheeled dollies (top) of reusable plastic crates filled with chilled foods are rolled through portal readers at the Tibbett & Br
Conveying & accumulation
Coors rolls out the barrel can
Pub barrel cans of Coors Killian’s Red are wrapped in heat-shrink OPP at a rate of 250 cans/min by a cut-and-glue labeling system located downstream from the can shaper.
October 31, 2000
Shrink system (above) uses carefully aimed heat guns to provide a can-hugging fit, even for shaped cans of Killian's Red (top).
Conveying & accumulation
Quintuplets!
New automated labeling system delivers five labels onto each glass bottle of Labrot & Graham’s premium bourbon whiskey, boosting output, reducing labor costs and improving placement accuracy.
October 31, 2000
At the first labeling station, a strip stamp label is applied over the top of the bottle (top). Small labels are used to show of
Conveying & accumulation
Radius applies labeler to Fisher-Price application
Unusual new labeler at Radius Corp. closes a plastic case around a Fisher-Price toothbrush, then applies a TE label that wraps around three sides of the case.
October 31, 2000
The labeler uses two parallel conveyors (below). In this photo, an open, toothbrush-filled case enters the machine from the conv
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Printed films seal meat trays
Leak-proof films, featuring flexo-printed designs, seal both fresh chicken and frozen meat products for two companies at stores nationwide. Pilgrim’s Pride repositions its full line of fresh chicken and Carlson of Albert Lea debuts Crossroad Farms fully cooked frozen meats.
September 30, 2000
Process-printed flexography in seven colors by Robbie Manufacturing, the graphics carry the traditional Pilgrim's Pride look wit
Labels
Call for uniform food safety label system
The multiplicity of different warning labels on food packages and other consumer products is confusing to consumers and, in many cases, has led consumers to discount or disregard the warnings, according to the Food Marketing Institute (FMI).
September 30, 2000
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