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Conveying & accumulation

Corner wrap system

ID Technology introduces a standard labeling system to print and apply variable information labels to the trailing corner of cases and cartons.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tag printer/applicator

ID Technology offers its IDT 250r printer applicator for RFID applications. The IDT 250r has the ability to read, write, verify, and apply RFID tags in top, bottom, and side label applications.

February 28, 2005

Flexibles

Baseball collector cards in new 'vault'

Topps continues to broaden market for collector cards with retail packs now selling for up to $30. New packaging virtually eliminates shoplifting.

February 28, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Lift and weigh checkweighers

The new Sonic-LW Lift-N-Weigh Checkweighers from Thompson Scale provide additional weighing options for companies that package cups filled with various condiments or blister packs that cannot be weighed with a standard checkweigher.

February 28, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Synchronous servo motors

Bosch Rexroth’s new IndraDyn S series synchronous servo motors are scalable in power, performance, and precision. Each motor pole is individually wound prior to stator assembly to eliminate end turns and maximize copper content.

February 28, 2005

Containers

Desiccant blanket

Süd-Chemie has launched Desi Blanket™, a thick, versatile sheet of desiccant pockets ideal for protecting a range of products from moisture in applications where size, thickness, packaging, and space constraints are a concern.

February 28, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC and ISA to merge

On January 17, the Board of Directors of OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Users Group announced that it had started detailed planning activities that will lead to a merger with ISA (The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society).

February 28, 2005

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging magazine debuts

The publishers of Packaging World are pleased to introduce Contract Packaging magazine, the official publication of the Contract Packaging Assn. It debuts in April with Packaging World’s marketing and design editor Jim George at the helm as editor-in-chief.

February 28, 2005

Flexibles

Recloseable MAP bags differentiate Farmer John's bacon

Farmer John Meats/Clougherty Packing Co., Los Angeles, CA, is marketing precooked bacon in a uniquely designed, contoured bag made of barrier film supplied by Curwood.

February 28, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Foodservice firm to use time indicator

Foodservice supplies company DayMark, Bowling Green, OH, expects to be to be the first North American user of diffusion-based expiration-date indicators from Timestrip this month when it introduces Cooler Strips.

February 28, 2005

Secondary Packaging

CLARIFICATIONS

In the February story about Teva Pharmaceuticals, the $150ꯠ yearly savings is across three plants, not one. Also, though the desiccant-packet insertion equipment described has a top-rated speed of 300/min, Teva runs in the range of 125/min.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Another look at HF

High-frequency radio waves, defined as 13.56 MHz, seem to be RFID’s forgotten frequency in the United States. HF is largely ignored in the shadows of Wal-Mart’s mandate for UHF (868 MHz to 915 MHz).

February 28, 2005