Sustainability

Unimark named Plastic News' Processor of the Year

Unimark Plastics is the winner of Plastics News’ Processor of the Year Award, the newspaper announced Feb. 2 at its Executive Forum in Summerlin.

March 31, 2004

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1534

Secondary Packaging

Stretch-hood technology

Lachenmeier has developed a new generation of stretch-hood machines that offer significant cost reduction, improved optical properties, and good load stability for pallet wrapping applications.

March 31, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Quick-change starwheel

Morrison has introduced a dual-acceptance starwheel to its line of quick-container handling parts. Designed to provide more adaptable changeover components, the starwheel can receive center-neck containers with handles pointed in any direction, then smoothly transfer them to the next production line function.

March 31, 2004

Controls & machine components

Krones, Inc: Krones, Inc: Monitoring software

Krones has developed a new generation of software systems for monitoring technology. Called Distributed Architecture for Real Time (DART), the software provides an alternative to PLCs when they are not feasible due to economics or space constraints.

March 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Generator brochure

Baldor offers a new 18-page, 4-color brochure highlighting its generator capabilities. Literature describes the following types of Baldor generators: Portables (1 to 11kW); Towables (20 to 200kW); Automatic Energy (8 to 25kW); and Prime Power, Emergency Standby and Peak Shaving (20 to 200kW).

March 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Leuze electronic, Inc: Sensor for labeling

The GS 06 fork sensor from Leuze Lumiflex offers an integrated alternating light designed to virtually eliminate labeling errors due to interference of outside light sources.

March 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Omron Electronics LLC: Safety relay

Omron’s forcibly guided G7S-E safety relay is developed for applications where safety is a major concern, such as for conveyors, packaging lines, and injection molding and extruding equipment.

March 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

DVD case now for software

When Eidos looked to package its multi-disc game software, Commandos 3: Destination Berlin and Deus Ex: Invisible War for North America, it selected the slim triple Alphapak from Nexpak.

March 31, 2004

Labels

EPCglobal picks co-chair for RFID group

EPCglobal Inc. selected radio-frequency identification pioneer, Dr. Harley Heinrich, chief RFID technologist of Intermec Technologies Corp., to co-chair the work group charged with completing a draft standard for C1G2, or UHF Generation 2.

March 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

'GREEN' LABELING: A GLOBAL GUIDE

Raymond Communications has published Green Labeling: Global Guide for Marketers in the New Millennium 2003. The guide covers voluntary and mandatory labeling in 21 countries.

March 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA issues drug bar-code regulation

On February 25, the Food and Drug Administration announced the issue of its final rule requiring bar codes on the labels of thousands of human drugs and biological products.

March 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Web Plus: Sites

FKI Logistex White Systemswww.whitesystems.comBuilt to streamline site navigation and information access, the redesigned Web site includes new Products & Services, Customer Service, Case Studies, and Video Library sections.

March 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Companies

DT Packaging Systems, comprising the Lakso, Merrill, Kalish, Swiftpack, and King brands of packaging machinery, will now be called Nova Packaging Systems.

March 31, 2004