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Labeling

'Natural' claims on RTE food packaging

USDA has a beef with some ready-to-eat deli packages. Companies are being forced to ditch “natural” copy on packaging.

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Sustainability News Digest

-Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News-

March 8, 2007

Flexibles

Exopack goes global

Globalization represents one of the most important and dynamic influences on industrial competition, especially in the flexible packaging arena.

March 7, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Private label's influence grows in non-grocery categories

Consumer study points to ‘halo’ effect of grocery products and shift in food store shopping preferences—two trends that mean packaging will need even more impact.

March 6, 2007

Flexibles

Pouch-in-pouch earns FPA's top honor

Retorted pouch-within-a-pouch from Wyeast Labs protects sensitive yeast products to gain two golds and highest achievement honors in FPA's annual awards recognizing the best in flexible packaging.

March 5, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Homing the stars: a giant step forward in servo labeling

A Packaging Automation interview with Martin Malthouse Founder and President Associated Packaging Equipment Corporation

March 4, 2007

Secondary Packaging

How to purchase used packaging machinery

Considering purchasing used packaging machinery? Read this paper from Langen to learn what to watch out for.

March 1, 2007

Protective/transport packaging

Bad packaging: Consumer Reports' 2007 Oyster Awards

The magazine welcomes new inductees into its packaging 'hall of shame' for hard-to-open packaging.

February 28, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Giving RFID a voice: How making tags talk could improve efficiencies

Voice-directed work technology is looking to leverage the data contained in RFID tags.

February 28, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Thoughts on project implementation

Packaged goods manufacturers planning major capital expenditures involving new packaging lines should do everything they possibly can to carefully think things through from a controls standpoint before final selections on packaging machines are made.

February 28, 2007

Flexible packaging

Fast cartoners get added boost

Switching from PLC to ELAU’s PacDrive as its standard automation platform gives Z Automation’s high speed machines even greater speed and flexibility

February 26, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Festo Corporation: Microwave sensor

Applications in harsh environments can now benefit from a microwave sensor in a pneumatic cylinder from Festo. Offering non-length-dependent displacement for pneumatic or hydraulic linear drives, sensor also provides facilities such as diagnostics, process monitoring, and plug & work.

February 23, 2007