Sustainable Packaging

PLM and packaging

How Product Lifecycle Management can help packaging: An interview with PLM provider Agile Software.

November 13, 2006

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1361

Additives, coatings & inks

Exopack Addresses Woven Polypropylene's Impact on Consumer Shipping Sack markets

Exopack, historically a manufacturer of multiwall and plastic packaging, has recognized the need to manufacture and provide Woven Polypropylene (WPP) packaging due to the performance advantages and impact this has on our customers and markets.

November 13, 2006

Secondary Packaging

When to select a robotic vs. traditional case packer

Robotic or traditional? It's a decision that faces every manufacturer installing or upgrading a case packer. This White Paper from Brenton Engineering Company will help give you insights into the selection process to make that determination.

November 10, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Pack Expo 2006 generates B2B connections

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute delivers 45,741 buyer attendees, up 553 from the 2004 show.

November 10, 2006

Labels

O-I pushes into embedded RFID

O-I is developing pharma bottles containing embedded tags, a trend that packagers hope brings them lower pricing for RFID technology.

November 9, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Say hello to real-time performance management

What if packaged goods manufacturing as we know it embraced real-time performance management? What if plant floor operators received continuous feedback on how they are doing instead of finding out a day or so later?

November 8, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

At PACK EXPO, modular packaging machinery becomes reality

Modularity has emerged as the ‘next wave' in packaging machine design. PACK EXPO 2006 ushered in the technologies and the resulting functionalities -- with fanfare.

November 6, 2006

Closures

1-piece CR closure

Rexam now offers a 24mm CR Flip-Top 1-piece dispensing closure, the first size in a new dispensing series.

November 6, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Water-based marking

The compact, user-friendly SX 7 (for single-line printing) and SX 16 (2-line printing) are Matthews' new, economical systems priced at less than half the cost of the company's SX 32.

November 6, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Robotic orienting

Now available from Schneider Packaging Equipment is the Robox Vi, a portable, vision-guided robotic solution for orienting and packing molded bottles, jars, and caps.

November 6, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case packer

Sabel Eng. offers a new line of robotic case packers designed for dairy cartons.

November 5, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Sleeving/case packing

IWKA Packaging offers the new A+F SetLine Sleeving-Packing System, which combines sleeving and case packing technology into a single space-saving operation.

November 5, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Festo Corporation: Festo Corporation: Electric Linear Actuator

Festo's DGEA cantilever electric linear actuator is designed with a  slide unit that remains stationary while the profile moves axially, making it suitable for space-contained multi-axis configurations.

November 5, 2006