Materials: Page 527

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Considering packaged product security

How does the need to better protect your product impact your packaging design?

July 31, 2006

Closures

Data acquisition bottles

You may be surprised at what's packed inside these containers.

July 31, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Anatomy of a servo labeler

What’s a rotary servo labeler? Only the biggest news in flexibility since the invention of the timing screw. And innovative machine builder K2 Engineering is delivering now.

June 30, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Web Plus: New or Enhanced Web Sites

One80 Design, a Laga Co.

June 30, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printed RFID slows

A new report throws cold water on the near-term outlook for printed electronics for RFID tags.

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Kraft case is strong and good-looking

Kraft Foods needed high-impact secondary packaging to contain four 40-oz slugs of premium cracker products.

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Packaging Summit Expo and Conference 2007 emphasizes container and material innovations

The Packaging Summit Expo and Conference, scheduled for May 15-17, 2007, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, will include even more materials and containers innovations pertinent to real-world applications – information and concepts tailored specifically for a multitude of packaging needs.

June 30, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Packaging Lessons Learned

Readers share experiences of inventiveness, resourcefulness, and persistence.

June 30, 2006

Additives, coatings & inks

What about RPETG?

Display Pack’s director of sales & marketing Marty Tidball discusses the differences between recycled PET (RPET) and recycled PETG (RPETG), a polyester copolymer that he says is commonly used inn its virgin state in pharmaceutical and medical packaging applications.

June 30, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

HP Invents Eco-Friendly Pack

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, has debuted a new angle on eco-friendly packaging using RPETG, a recycled polyester copolymer, that replaces polyvinyl chloride.

June 30, 2006

Labels

Microwave Coffee-Brewing Cup

JavaVoo LLC’s Micro-Brew Personal Barista is a single-use, disposable container that pressure-brews a ready-to-drink cup of coffee in the microwave in two minutes.

June 30, 2006

Closures

Jekyll & Hyde glass bottles dazzle on-premise market

Unlike its namesake duo, complementary glass bottles for two-part Jekyll & Hyde distilled beverages has produced nothing but good results in the on-premise outlets that have been test-marketing the product since last December.

June 30, 2006