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Cartoning

BevOps covers advances in packaging machinery

Conference covers the technology revolution in beverage packaging machinery introduced at 3 recent trade shows.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Product focus: Tamper-evident RFID tags

Smart&Secure technology fights product counterfeiting, diversion, and tampering in the supply chain at a 10% premium to typical RFID tags.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID in healthcare

What are the primary benefits RFID can deliver for pharmaceutical packagers?

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Secondary Packaging

RFID value beyond compliance

Former Sara Lee exec Ray Hagedorn shares that company's lessons as he emphasizes looking for value in RFID.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Psst: The privacy world of RFID

Are privacy concerns about RFID valid or conspiracy-theory paranoid?

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Value in Wal-Mart's RFID trial means more work ahead

Wal-Mart provided proof of RFID’s value when it released study results that showed a 16% reduction in out of stocks. What was also implied is that more is needed beyond RFID technology to deliver these results.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Trend toward embedded RFID

RFID tags embedded by vendors in packaging materials and containers is seen as a growing trend that adds value to RFID.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Upcoming RFID events

A list of RFID and related conferences through March 2006.

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Conveying & accumulation

Tube labeler

LSI offers the Model 1800 automatic tube wrap system, which is based on the LSI Series 40 apply-only labeling head. System can deliver up to 120 labeled products/min.

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Closures

Still water cap

Procap has extended its range of Fullytop® caps to include the Victoria 30/25 LN closure for mineral water bottles. Available in a low-neck version, with a high-neck version soon to follow.

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Flexibles

High-barrier lamination

Ampac’s Converted Products Div. has launched Flexi 2122, a high-barrier foil lamination with Barex® for hard-to-hold products such as aggressive liquids, gels, or solids whose formulation has a tendency to attack traditional structures.

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Labels

P-s label for returnables

Spear® and IlloSpear® have introduced ThermoWash, a p-s PP label construction that allows beverages packaged in returnable bottles to employ the same labeling techniques as 1-way containers.

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