Additives, coatings & inks

Pick-and-place robot

The SIG Delta Robot from SIG Pack Systems has a common modular design incorporating both the robot and controls, resulting in minimal space requirements.

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Flexible packaging

A culture of packaging innovation

Harro Höfliger integrates production and packaging in modular Gen3 machinery.

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Cartoning

Top-loading cartoner

The TopLoader T 2060 is a new machine developed jointly by Uhlmann and its partner Harro Höfliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH.

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Flexibles

Dole launches fruitful size

Dole Food Company, Westlake Village, CA, is offering a bigger play on fruit in clear plastic containers: 24.5-oz “Dole Fruit in Plastic Jars.” The custom blow-molded multilayer barrier container features a pinched-in body to help protect the glued label, which is printed on clear film.

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Containers

Netted desiccant bags

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and users of granular and powdered materials can now quickly and easily remove desiccants from bulk packaging with highly visible red netted desiccant bags from Süd-Chemie Performance Packaging.

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Labels

Singularly clear cups

Del Monte “Fruit Naturals” from Del Monte Foods, San Francisco, CA, are packed in an 8-oz clear cup with a fluted design.

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Closures

CAP AND CLOSURE DEMAND TO CLIMB

According to Cleveland-based The Freedonia Group, demand for caps and closures in the United States will climb by more than 5% per year to nearly $6 billion in 2007.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Manual on anticounterfeiting, no; useful compendium, yes

Whether a book or an anthology, this volume on pharmaceutical anticounterfeiting is both interesting and valuable, but flawed.

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Containers

Bringing the big screen to aluminum cans

Dr Pepper and Rexam Beverage Can Americas are reproducing X-Men 2 movie action heroes on beverage cans to promote the upcoming movie release and boost brand awareness and sales of Dr Pepper, Diet Dr Pepper, and Red Fusion products.

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Closures

Reestablishing a brand

In order to reestablish itself as a skincare innovator, Olay assigned design and branding agency Webb Scarlett for its Daily Facials and Total Effects line of anti-aging skincare products.

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Protective/transport packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Schubert Packaging Systems (Addison, TX) opened a new 5.5 million Euro (US $6.08 million) Warehouse Logistics Center (above) in Crailsheim, Germany.

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Containers

Euro-style solution to vial packaging

Bionostics’ first comprehensive production line adds efficiency and output to its operations and pays for itself in a year.

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