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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1485

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

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