Coding, Printing & Labeling

An RFID World of technology

Technology showcased at RFID World ranged from portable RFID readers to sensor-equipped RFID tags the size of credit cards.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID and pharma Q&A

Frost & Sullivan's expert answers questions about RFID for the pharma and healthcare packaging markets.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

A first read on RFID World 2006

RFID World 2006 speakers including from Purdue Pharma, Wal-Mart, and the FDA provided advice, details on implementations, and previews of things to come.

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Flexibles

Carroll Manufacturing & Sales opens a new HQ

CMS, a company specializing in packaging and food processing supplies to the meat and food industry, has finalized the construction of, and moved into its new Avon, OH, headquarters facility.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies partner on RFID equipped pharma packages

Stora Enso and Orion Pharma introduce a series of pharmaceutical packages equipped with RFID tags.

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Sustainability

Sustainability feedback from Newman's Own

A recent Webcast included disclosure about Newman's Own organics line packaged in clear containers made of polylactic acid (PLA).

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Additives, coatings & inks

Storm brews in U.S. over MAP for meat

The growing use of carbon monoxide as a "pigment fixative" in modified atmosphere packaging of meat is alarming consumer advocates who say it is deceptive.

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Flexibles

Silver Award Winners

PACKAGING EXCELLENCE SILVER AWARDSKiMs Polly Peanuts, 350g/Amcor FlexiblesDuPont Cool2go Wrap/DuPont Packaging and Industrial PolymersCryovac Saddle Pack Multi-Unit Vacuum Package for Fresh Chicken/Cryovac Food Packaging, Sealed Air Corp.

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Flexibles

Converter details

Unilever was not the only beneficiary of the change from foil to metallized film. Its converter, American Packaging Corp.

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Flexibles

Film details

Torayfan® PC1 is a 50-ga metallized biaxially oriented film that is treated on one side with a high corona surface treatment to better accept printing inks and sealants.

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Flexibles

Pouch-perfecting improvements

Unilever dry mixes switch to metallized BOPP to improve barrier, aesthetics, and production.

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RFID tags take the heat

Almost all of E&PS’s shipments to Wal-Mart are full loads. However, for its less-than-pallet-load “partial shipments”—orders of 100 or so calculators—E&PS bundles two to three cases together via shrink wrap as a unit load to ship to a DC or direct to a particular store.

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

TI's well-calculated Gen 2 RFID rollout

Texas Instruments’ E&PS calculator business unit did its homework before it became the first Wal-Mart supplier to tag packages with Gen 2 RFID technology.

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