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Sustainable Packaging
Proposed California recyling bill hit
A group of consumer product companies has formed the California Packaging Alliance to oppose a bill in the state Senate that would alter the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container (RPPC) calculation.
May 31, 2004

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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Calorie and carb claims on spirits
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau issued guidance on calorie and carbohydrate claims in advertising and labeling of alcoholic beverages. TTB wants to ensure that consumers are not mislead by labeling statements that give only a partial picture of the health effects of consuming alcohol.
May 31, 2004
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Bar-code barriers
Pharmaceutical companies will wrestle with packaging design and production challenges over the next two years.
May 31, 2004
American Pharmaceutical Partners packages its hospital-injectable drugs in vials as small as 2 mL, so it had to substantially re
Sustainability
Packaging security: in-store measures remain essential
Responding to retailer needs, clamshell blisters answer theft threats. Yet some packagers look for less costly alternatives.
May 31, 2004
A full-body shrink sleeve label on Sun-Maid Raisins brings packaging security in the form of tamper evidence.
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
RFID and packaging security: not 'if,' but 'when'
The potential to track and trace helps establish a package's 'pedigree' and uncover tampering.
May 31, 2004
RFID tags like these are wending their way into packaging. Pallets and cases will get them first, but eventually even primary pa
Coding, Printing & Labeling
RFID and packaging security: not 'if,' but 'when' (sidebar)
Pack Expo Adds Package Security Center
May 31, 2004
Sustainability
Color control across resins and regions
Esteé Lauder Companies is strongly committed to packaging whose colors are consistent, on a global basis, regardless of the resin from which the part is molded.
May 31, 2004
A new approach to managing the color-matching process has been especially useful for the firm's Aveda brand.
Secondary Packaging
Inverter drives cartoner
Econocorp improves the performance of its venerable Spartan cartoner with AC inverter drive technology.
May 31, 2004
Econocorp's intermittent-motion Spartan cartoner employs a frequency inverter (top) that drives a gear motor (above). These com
Filling/capping, dry
Bottler takes a networked approach
Variable-frequency drives, HMI, and pneumatics are all PLC-controlled along a single high-speed network on this wash/fill/cap machine.
May 31, 2004
Because the pneumatic valve manifolds (circled) have an IP65 rating, they can be mounted right on the machine and don't require
Controls & Machine Components
Bottler takes a networked approach (sidebar)
Servo pneumatics brings piston-positioning information
May 31, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
'Standardize!' say survey respondents (sidebar)
Standardization made easy
May 31, 2004
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Controls & Machine Components
'Standardize!' say survey respondents
An exclusive Packworld.com survey on packaging line data acquisition capabilities brings a cry for standardization wherever OEMs can manage.
May 31, 2004
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Labels
Anticounterfeiting: the urgency grows
Prescription drugs come first, but efforts could encompass OTC, too.
May 31, 2004
FDA's Counterfeit Drug Task Force is more focused on RX drugs than OTC products
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