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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1445

Coding, Printing & Labeling

MIT's RFID field probe

The Auto-ID Labs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, has developed an inexpensive field probe that emulates an RFID tag but yields much more robust information than simple trial-and-error, pass or fail testing.

January 31, 2005

Closures

Spell-binding design

Lily Sweet, the latest creation by the perfume artist Ulric de Varens, premiered in its stylish flacon by Gerresheimer at Luxe Pack in Monaco this past October.

January 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

January 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Companies

ID Technology has been signed as exclusive national distributor for MASCA Marking and Coding Laser Systems. ID Technology has also added an RFID business unit to its overall operations.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

No label change, say two juice makers

Coca-Cola North America, manufacturers of Minute Maid orange juice, and Tropicana, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., rejected a call by the Florida Department of Citrus to change the labeling on packages of “light” orange juice after studies showed consumers were confused about the juice content of the products.

January 31, 2005

Labels

Uniform compliance date

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has established January 1, 2008, as the uniform compliance date for new food labeling regulations issued between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006.

January 31, 2005

Additives, coatings & inks

The power of numbers, and neighbors

As we struggle to write “2005” instead of “2004” on our checks, I’m struck by how important numbers are to our lives and our jobs.

January 31, 2005

Closures

Dual foamer blends ingredients consistently

Schering-Plough introduces its Coppertone Endless Summer tanning lotion as a two-part liquid that dispenses in a light foam application.

January 31, 2005

Closures

Evian bottle reaches new heights

Launched in late 2004 to celebrate the new year, Evian’s 1-L Origine glass bottle is a monolithic ice-like sculpture.

January 31, 2005

Flexibles

Topps cards first use of security package

The first commercial application for Colbert Packaging’s BlisterGuard® security package are for packs containing collector cards marketed by Topps, Inc., New York.

January 31, 2005

Flexibles

Liquid mints become 'jewels' in a tube

Yosha! Enterprises breathes fresh air into category by finding structural inspiration in the cosmetics aisle.

January 31, 2005

Protective/transport packaging

Definitions to measure packaging line productivity (sidebar)

Michael Mailutha of Pfizer Global Manufacturing and Ignacio Munoz-Guerra of AutoPak Engineering Corp., co-delivered the presentation “Ways to Increase Packaging Productivity and Reduce Bottlenecks” at the 2004 International Pack Expo in Chicago in November.

January 31, 2005