Sustainability

Consumer-friendly packaging gains new importance

Mona Doyle wants brand managers and package designers to know this: The price you pay in good will and sales for packaging that consumers perceive as undesirable could get even higher.

January 31, 2005

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1443

Closures

Combination product packaging

The healthcare industry is headed to drug combination products containing two or more regulated components that are physically, chemically, or otherwise combined as a single entity.

January 31, 2005

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Speedier changeovers

Quick changeover expert John Henry provided actionable advice during last week’s Web seminar sponsored by the Institute of Packaging Professionals.

January 31, 2005

Flexibles

Smart Package of the Month: Nanoclay pouch

A nanoclay-coated pouch debuts our exclusive ‘Smart Package of the Month’ spotlight as selected by the experts at IDTechEx.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printed electronics spark interest

Motorola’s technology for economical printed electronics for smart packaging and RFID applications has the attention of printers, converters, packagers, and others.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Modular distributed I/O

The Telemecanique Advantys OTB from Schneider Electric is the latest addition in a family of smart, modular distributed I/O products optimized for use in modular distributed I/O architectures.

January 31, 2005

Contract Packaging

Relying too much on contract packagers?

As high-volume retailers continue to demand customized packs—multipacks in particular—from consumer packaged goods companies, CPG companies are relying on contract packagers like never before. But one representative of a major CPG company—he chooses not to be identified—thinks this kind of reliance on outsourcing needs to be revisited.

January 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

RFID testing facility

The Kennedy Group’s RFID group has opened an extensive RFID testing facility on the grounds of its 30-acre campus in Willoughby, OH, just Northeast of Cleveland.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Integrated RFID data

Comtrol and CapTech Ventures have teamed to integrate Comtrol's DeviceMaster® ATS and DeviceMaster®RTS with CapTech's TagsWareME®.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tesco places major RFID order

The world’s third largest retailer plans to RFID-enable 1괌 stores and 35 distribution centers across the United Kingdom.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID plans at Starbucks

Coffeehouse chain plans to use the technology to let suppliers make after-dark deliveries.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Nestlé tags pallets in Europe

Nestlé has begun automatic tagging of UHF RFID tags onto pallets of products destined for Metro supermarkets.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID one-on-one with Kevin Ashton Part 2

RFID Antenna exclusive: RFID authority Kevin Ashton, co-founder of the MIT Auto-ID Center at MIT and now VP marketing with RFID reader vendor ThingMagic, provides insights and observations in this second of a two-part exclusive interview conducted in early December.

January 31, 2005