Coding, Printing & Labeling

Web Plus

New or Enhanced websites

November 5, 2006

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1363

Labels

Tamper-evident RFID

It's another sign of the times we live in that authentication technologies, including RFID tags, may themselves need to be made tamper-evident to indicate when they've been messed with.

November 5, 2006

Converting equipment

Missing: one extruder

Maybe you were as surprised as I was to hear about the major recall from Ross Products for its 32-oz plastic bottles of Similac.

November 5, 2006

Sustainability

Water, water is everywhere, perhaps not what you think

When it comes to bottled water, there is more to it than you may think, and less to it than you may think.

November 5, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Dow upgrades straw application operations

Midland, MI-based Dow Chemical Company is using an EZ-Seal® 300 SL heat shrink-sleeve applicator from Axon (www.axoncorp.com) to improve tamper-evidence and straw application for its line of Great Stuff insulating foam sealant products.

November 5, 2006

Flexibles

Barrier pouches protect sensitive yeast products

Wyeast Laboratories, Hood River, OR, a leading producer of pure liquid yeast products (fermentation cultures) for beer and wine making, has introduced 50-mL and 125-mL retortable stand-up pouch packaging for its home brewers and vintners line of products.

November 5, 2006

Flexibles

PU protection at DePuy

At medical device maker DePuy Orthopaedics, polyurethane protective packaging from Barger Packaging (www.bargerpackaging.com) is playing a key role in getting hip and knee replacement products to DuPuy's intended patients.

November 5, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart launches plan to reduce packaging

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. caused quite a stir when it put the heat on its suppliers to incorporate RFID to create supply-chain pedigrees.

November 5, 2006

Sustainability

Industry Watch

November 5, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Costco's hands-on packaging guy

Scott Carnie is general manager of Costco Wholesale's East Coast Packaging operations in New Jersey.

November 5, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Wal-Mart reveals packaging scorecard

An interactive, highly detailed online 'Packaging Scorecard' announced by Wal-Mart/Sam's Club at Pack Expo on Nov. 1 benefits sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions.

November 2, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

High Speed Plastic Bottle Unscrambler

The Necosort-III from Nalbach reduces maintenance and downtime and has the smallest footprint in the industry, company says.

November 2, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Automatic Rotary Ring Wrapper

Wulftec demonstrated its Wring-500 automatic rotary ring wrapper at Pack Expo 2006.

November 2, 2006