Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: Low-Profile Junction Box

New low-profile M12 eurofast junction boxes from Turck provide efficiency and versatility for quick-disconnect wiring consolidation. The compact junction boxes are available in 4- or 8-port with single or dual output.

June 30, 2006

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1385

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Web Plus: New or Enhanced Web Sites

One80 Design, a Laga Co.

June 30, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printed RFID slows

A new report throws cold water on the near-term outlook for printed electronics for RFID tags.

June 30, 2006

Sustainability

Moving into the passing lane

“Whether it’s packaging or transportation, we do have personal choices, some that are clearer about the environment, others that are more pure preference.”

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Kraft case is strong and good-looking

Kraft Foods needed high-impact secondary packaging to contain four 40-oz slugs of premium cracker products.

June 30, 2006

Converting equipment

Pack Expo Attendees To Select Winning Packages

Attendees at the Oct. 29-Nov. 2 Pack Expo International 2006 show in Chicago will be invited to vote for the package they feel is the most innovative among those included in the Pack Expo Selects display within the Showcase of Packaging Innovations™.

June 30, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Vacuum conveyors

Dorner offers its 2200 Series low profile vacuum conveyor. With a frame height as low as 1.87", it can easily fit in tight places.

June 30, 2006

Flexibles

Packaging Summit Expo and Conference 2007 emphasizes container and material innovations

The Packaging Summit Expo and Conference, scheduled for May 15-17, 2007, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, will include even more materials and containers innovations pertinent to real-world applications – information and concepts tailored specifically for a multitude of packaging needs.

June 30, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Clemson gets $2.5 million Sonoco grant

Sonoco has given Clemson University a $2.5-million gift to create a proposed new institute for packaging design and graphics.

June 30, 2006

Contract Packaging

Packaging Summit Expo and Conference 2007 intensifies Contract Packaging objectives

Last May’s Packaging Summit 2006 (held May 16-18, 2006 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois) was a great success, bringing packaging’s leaders together in one venue specializing in contract packaging solutions, containers and materials innovations as well as an outstanding educational conference program.

June 30, 2006

Sustainable Packaging

Persistence Pays

We recognize Rudradev Dasgupta for our first unofficial “Edison Packaging Award” for his remarkable persistence. Dasgupta is packaging development manager for Emicos Intl., Dubai, UAE, which he describes as the largest cosmetics manufacturing company in the Middle East.

June 30, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Packaging Lessons Learned

Readers share experiences of inventiveness, resourcefulness, and persistence.

June 30, 2006

Additives, coatings & inks

What about RPETG?

Display Pack’s director of sales & marketing Marty Tidball discusses the differences between recycled PET (RPET) and recycled PETG (RPETG), a polyester copolymer that he says is commonly used inn its virgin state in pharmaceutical and medical packaging applications.

June 30, 2006