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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Closures
Club stores packaging survey
A new survey from Warehouse Club Focus takes a look at club store packaging.
December 31, 2005
Materials: Page 558
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID upgradability
Weber Marking Systems’ new RFID Ready program makes it possible for companies to obtain Weber label printers and printer/ applicators that can be upgraded to include RFID technology when needed.
December 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Medium-duty RFID
The medium-duty Avery Dennison™AP 5.4 RFID Printer enables companies to meet RFID labeling requirements in the apparel, footwear, retail, packaging, distribution, and other markets.
December 31, 2005
Containers
In-mold labeling
IPL Packaging introduces Shure-Lock® commercial series pails with in-mold labeling (IML). IML offers the highest-quality decorative process available for rigid plastic pails that are used to package food products sold at retail levels and club stores.
December 31, 2005
Flexibles
LLDPE resins
Dow Chemical Co. launched 6 new Dowlex™ PE resins and one new Elite™ EPE resin, which will be manufactured using hexene comonomer. The Dowlex resins are suitable for liners and unitizing films requiring easy processing, toughness, puncture resistance, good tear resistance, impact resistance, and hot tack strength.
December 31, 2005
Containers
Specialty packaging
VisiPak offers its line of specialty packaging, including Gift Paks such as the candy cane tube packages, POP-Pak header cards that help eliminate the middleman and complete the entire package, Compartment Paks that separate products in one container, Donation Containers for fund raising, and Golf Ball Tubes for promotional campaigns.
December 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Privacy and RFID
Are privacy concerns about RFID valid or conspiracy-theory paranoid?
December 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
2006: an exciting milestone and a new outlook for packaging
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pack Expo, being held October 29 - November 2 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. We spoke with Chuck Yuska, president of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), sponsor and producer of the show, about this special anniversary and what the new year has in store for packaging professionals.
December 31, 2005
Protective/transport packaging
People
Andrew MacLeod was appointed divisional vice president of sales and marketing for SCA Packaging North America.
December 31, 2005
Secondary Packaging
Companies
Leister Process Technologies, Sarnen, Switzerland, formed a new master distribution network for the United States. The U.S. market will be serviced by the following factory-trained sales and service centers: Assembly Supplies Co., western region; Heely-Brown Co., southeast region; Hy-Tech Products, midwest; and Malcom Co., northeast region.
December 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Trans-fat labeling and Katrina
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are now being blamed for limiting the availability of resin used to make plastic bread bags, prompting the American Bakers Association to request either a six-month extension of the January 1, 2006, trans fat labeling deadline or a six-month “enforcement discretion.” The storms also created obstacles for distribution of imported trans fat substitutes.
December 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
High-volume retailers pile demands on packaging
Retailers expect a lot from packaging, and few require more than club stores and other high-volume outlets.
December 31, 2005
Coding, Printing & Labeling
High-volume retailers pile demands on packaging (sidebar)
Data says RFID helps Wal-Mart cut out-of-stocks by 16%
December 31, 2005
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