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Flexible packaging

Healthcare packaging pros discuss critical issues

Healthcare packaging experts discuss counterfeiting, packaging and personalized medicine, oil/resin pricing concerns, and material and machinery advances.

December 31, 2005

Flexibles

Second cartoner speeds hurricane relief efforts

Machine allows Innotech to double the production and shipment of its self-heating meals to assist displaced victims and relief workers during last year’s disastrous hurricane season.

December 31, 2005

Flexibles

Candy company sweetens packaging efficiencies

Farley’s and Sathers adds versatile vertical cartoning line to keep pace with growing product demand.

December 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Drug companies on different frequencies on RFID

Package tagging for pharmaceuticals is moving forward, but slowly. Meanwhile, FDA grows impatient.

December 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging Association gets 100th member

The Contract Packaging Association has reached its 100th member milestone. Because of this most recent edition of Anderson Packaging, Inc., the CPA has more than doubled its membership since the beginning of 2005.

December 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Universal analog input module

GE Fanuc Automation has introduced the PACSystems™ RX3i Universal Analog Input module, which offers the functionality of 4 modules in 1, reducing I/O module space requirements, decreasing the number of spare parts and inventory, and simplifying wiring and configuration.

November 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Schneider Electric: Intelligent drive

Motor control for motors to 700 HP is now available in the Telemecanique® Altivar® 71 variable speed AC drive from Schneider Electric. Dual processors and motor control algorithms provide good torque performance and speed regulation, while advanced materials reduce the drive’s size by 15% over previous generations.

November 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Carlo Gavazzi: Switching power supplies

The new SPD Series Switching Power Supplies from Carlo Gavazzi are high-efficiency, DIN Rail mount devices designed for the automation market. Range of output wattages and voltages provide various choices for low-power electrical or electronic devices.

November 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Power supply

The new Omron S8VM power supply features an undervoltage alarm that signals when voltage falls and indicates the cause, enabling operators to quickly troubleshoot the cause of the drop onsite.

November 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Winning with subtlety and sophistication--sometimes less is more

As a designer working exclusively in brands and packaging, I am getting close to the saturation level when it comes to passing judgment on good or bad design.

November 30, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

PMMI elects three new board members

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute has added three new members to its Board of Directors.

November 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

REWE pilots RFID with Gen 2 inlays

The German retailer REWE has started an extensive pallet-level RFID pilot at its Norderstedt distribution center in Germany.

November 30, 2005