Converting equipment

Conical PET bottle

Novapak offers its Footed Conical PET container in 8-oz and 16-oz sizes. Container is designed for use with caps, pumps, or sprayers, making it suitable for a variety of personal care, household, and automotive products.

July 31, 2005

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Printpack acquires assets of PBM Plastics

Printpack has reached an agreement to purchase the assets of PBM Plastics, a manufacturer of thin-wall, deep draw, thermoformed plastics.

July 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Drinktec preview: what's new in labelers?

A number of new servo labelers take center stage at the big drinktec beverage manufacturing show, September 12-17, Munich, Germany.

July 31, 2005

Containers

Packaging board

M-real USA Corp.

July 31, 2005

Flexibles

Drikette® Desiccant Paper

Drikette® Desiccant Paper features millions of adsorbent particles contained in a semi-rigid cellulose fiber matrix. The desiccant paper enables fast drying and extraordinary versatility in package design.

July 31, 2005

Flexibles

Desimax® self-adhesive moisture adsorber

Now you can protect your product against moisture damage with Desimax®, the world's first and only self-adhesive moisture adsorber. Desimax features an ultra-thin, low profile design that makes it seemingly invisible.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tagging

Part of Accu-Sort's suite of Flexible Automation Solution Tools, FAST Tag is a turnkey automated solution for placing, tracking, and verifying RFID tags on cartons and pallets.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Hosted middleware management

Seeburger Inc. has released IDnet, the first hosted solution for RFID “slap and ship” compliance that targets smaller companies.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labelers upgradeable to RFID

Weber Marking Systems’ new RFID Ready program makes it possible for companies to obtain Weber label printers and printer-applicators that can be upgraded in the future to include the RFID technology.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID Center opens at U of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville opened its RFID Research Center in June.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID impact on corrugated

The Fibre Box Association studies environmental and product impacts of RFID on corrugated containers.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The truly nickel tag

Why silicon is too pricy and why printed electronics make sense for the nickel RFID tag solution.

July 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

MIT's RFID implementation guidelines

MIT researchers offer basic guidelines to help end users to improve the performance of RFID systems.

July 31, 2005