Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging Innovations for Food & Beverage: When Innovative Packaging Imitates Life

January 19-20, 2005Radisson Hotel Miami, FLwww.marcusevansbb.com/packaginginnovations

November 30, 2004

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1497

Flexible packaging

Rising machinery shipments show promise

Packaging machinery shipments in the United States reached $4.889 billion last year, an $82 million (or 1.7%) increase from 2002, according to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute’s 10th Annual Shipments and Outlook Study.

November 30, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Electronic paperboard blister

MeadWestvaco Healthcare Packaging is licensing technology for printed “paperboard computers” from Sweden’s Cypak AG to develop its new cerepak™ electronic compliance packaging.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

Sweet 'N Easy debuts at Pack Expo

At a Pack Expo International 2004 press conference, DuPont Packaging Solutions (DPS) introduced its own Sweet ‘N Easy-brand grape tomatoes in a single-serve container thermoformed of polyester.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

The wrap-up: Old wine in old pouches

In this article from National Geographic, an archaeologist traces drink to the Stone Age and finds pouched wines.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor tips to improve sterile packaging line efficiency

Want to reap the benefits of on-time production and eliminate preventable line problems? Here are tips to get the most out of your conveyors.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

Trend toward sustainable packaging

Prepare for an ever-increasing amount of biodegradable products and packaging, including water and--very soon--milk in blow-molded bottles made of polylactide, or PLA, a polymer made from corn.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

Flexible pouch mated with trigger sprayer

PACK EXPO : Kapak released its flexible pouch mated with trigger sprayer at its booth, S-575, at Pack Expo International 2004.

November 30, 2004

Containers

Self-heating beverage container debuts

WP Beverage Partners LLC is introducing a new line of its Wolfgang Puck brand of gourmet coffees in self-heating containers—a first in North America, says the container’s creator, OnTech Delaware Inc. in San Diego.

November 30, 2004

Contract Packaging

New name, logo, publication for Contract Packaging Assn.

The Contract Manufacturing & Packaging Association has changed its name to the Contract Packaging Association. The organization has also adopted a new logo.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

RFID: The promise and the struggle

Hype about radio-frequency identification clashes with reality at Baltimore EPC Global conference.

November 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Cutler-Hammer: Cutler-Hammer: Molded case circuit breakers

AutomationDirect introduces a line of Cutler-Hammer’s Molded Case Circuit Breakers that offer UL489 listed performance for branch circuit overcurrent protection and disconnecting means.

October 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Pneumatic mini slides

The ZSC pneumatic slides from Bosch Rexroth are specially designed for vertical applications, using a ball rail system between twin piston rods. The company says the design allows for a lower profile and weighs less than conventional double-rod slide units.

October 31, 2004