Coding, Printing & Labeling

IBM launches RFID on RPCs

IBM will track and trace assets between France and Ireland using RFID-enabled reusable plastic containers.

April 30, 2005

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1469

Flow wrapping

PFM's new pharma-configured flow packer

PFM introduces a pharmaceutical flow packing with robotic infeed and vision capabilities

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Industrial PCs

Schneider Electric introduces the Magelis® Smart iPC, a thin client for Ethernet architectures, and the Magelis Compact iPC, designed for embedding in compact machines or enclosures.

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Motion control solution

Soft Servo Systems has released the SMP series, a new type of general motion controller with as many as 16 axes of high-end general motion control, an industry-standard soft PLC, and a Windows®-based GUI application in a single package.

April 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: PCI-based digitizer

National Instruments announces the NI PCI-5124, a PCI version of its 12-bit, 200 MS/s PXI-based digitizer. The NI PXI-5124 and NI PCI-5124 digitizers deliver more than 75 dBc spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) on two simultaneously sampled inputs with 150 MHz bandwidth.

April 30, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Virtual label' upgrades medical packs

DataLase® from Sherwood Technology in the United Kingdom permits the “printing” of a virtual label directly into packaging substrates using a low-power carbon dioxide-based laser that replaces conventional print-and-apply methods.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Spitzer to probe drug tampering

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has made a career of investigating financial irregularities among banks, mutual funds and insurance firms, is now targeting drug wholesalers for potential drug tampering and mislabeling.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID Journal Live!

This year’s RFID Journal Live!

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Why so little RFID progress in pharma?

If the use of RFID technology makes sense anywhere in the field of packaging—and I believe it makes a lot of sense in a great many places—the one place where it should be recognized as an obvious problem solver is in drug packaging.

April 30, 2005

Containers

Nivea pack gets face lift

RPC Verpackungen Kutenholz GmbH manufactured a stylish new PP bottle for the redesigned packaging of the Nivea Visage range of face care products. Nivea manufacturer Beiersdorf relaunched the Visage brand in new packaging in order to enhance its image in the marketplace.

April 30, 2005

Flexibles

People

Bimal Kalvani was named president of Alcoa Flexible Packaging.

April 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Serac Inc. purchased Nova-Socimec.

April 30, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

Possible warnings for cosmetics

The Food and Drug Administration may require cosmetics and personal care products to include a warning label stating “The safety of this product has not been determined”—if it finds the products contain ingredients whose safety has not been proven or determined.

April 30, 2005