Materials: Page 636

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Caulk-it revolutionizes the sealants market

GE Sealants & Adhesives, a wholly owned subsidiary of the General Electric Co., is revolutionizing the sealant market with its most recent innovation.

September 30, 2003

Flexibles

See the latest from ITW at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2003

ITW will show products including barrier packaging films, cap sealers, corona treating equipment, ink-jet coding, shrink sleeves, web cleaners, and much more at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2003.

September 30, 2003

Protective/transport packaging

More from San Jose State University

PW continues our Question and Answer session with Herb Schueneman, packaging program director at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.

September 30, 2003

Cartoning

Packaging in the U.K. and beyond (Part 3)

New developments from U.K. machine builders (Part 3 of a 6-part series)

September 30, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

New packaging association formed

The Association of Visual Packaging Manufacturers has been formed to address growing concerns over plant closings and lost jobs to overseas competition.

September 30, 2003

Flexibles

Cat litter gets a 'hand' up

Cedar Fresh cat litter from MFM Industries, Reddick, FL, is the first commercial user of a special new injection-molded polyethylene handle located in a corner of its 12- and 14-lb flexible stand-up pouches. Introduced last October, Cedar Fresh uses a handle from 2N2 that’s applied by MFM to the bags on a machine from Marble Manor.

September 30, 2003

Flexibles

Pita-perfect design

To help develop brand identity and packaging graphics for its new Pita Snax Brand Pita Chips, Pita Products of Farmington, MI, looked to Flowdesign, Inc.

September 30, 2003

Flexibles

Companies

Sonoco (Hartsville, SC) and Ball Corp.

September 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pipeline: The elusive 'nickel' tag

Hot on the heels of a tech-stock surge, media outlets of all stripes have carried stories about the “possibilities” for radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags or labels.

September 30, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

'Catch and release' packaging

Seafood processor Plitt shifts from waxed corrugated to returnable crates to save money, time, and damage.

September 30, 2003

Containers

Reaching Peak efficiency (sidebar)

Banding together

September 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Obstacles to information integration abound (sidebar)

Methodology

September 30, 2003