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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1444

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

Coding, Printing & Labeling

WIDE-WEB THERMAL SOLUTIONS: M10e Series Printers

The M10e wide web thermal industrial printers are ideal for a range of applications.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

HF for RFID?

RFID Antenna exclusive: Don’t give up yet on the high-frequency range for RFID, industry insiders say. It may yet take a foothold for item-level tagging of drugs.

January 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Stainless-steel sealers

Constructed with stainless steel components, the new versions of the 3M-Matic™ 700a, 700rf, and 800af (shown) case sealers are highly resistant to corrosion in high-moisture mfg.

January 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Kerk Motion Products: Slide for linear applications

Kerk Motion Products introduces its RGS™ 10000 Slide. Designed for linear-motion applications, it’s especially suitable for applications in the packaging field, including plastic bottle unscramblers, shrink bundlers, stretch banders, tray shrink-packaging systems, wraparound case packers, secondary orienters, and canister desiccant feeders.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electronics Americ: Mitsubishi Electronics Americ: Servo motors

Mitsubishi Electric’s MR-J3 servo motors offer a smaller size and increased performance, ideal for packaging machinery. Other benefits include advanced vibration control, higher speeds and higher accuracies, and increased compatibility.

January 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Eurotherm: Eurotherm: Data management system

Eurotherm, a unit of Invensys plc, has announced the release of a new Advanced Screen Builder feature in the 5000 Series Data Management System. This feature enables 24 custom user screens to be created and viewed at the instrument’s touch screen.

January 31, 2005

Additives, coatings & inks

Report ponders plastics pricing issues

Higher feedstock costs and strong export demand drove polyethylene prices up 22¢/lb last year, according to a January 6, 2005 Market Update from The Plastics Exchange.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The Packaging Pushback Club

Among the more regrettable developments in the ongoing saga of RFID implementation is the emergence of what I like to call the Packaging Pushback Club. You know them.

January 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Post Pack Expo observations on machinery developments

Chinna Chinnakaruppan, manager of project engineering at Schering-Plough’s Kenilworth, NJ, plant, talks about recent trends in packaging machinery.

January 31, 2005