Plastics/resins

MJS Packaging Receives Top Supplier Award from 3M

MJS Packaging was named by 3M as recipient of its Certified Supplier of Products Certification Award.

May 1, 2015

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 756

Material handling

Serialization first in South Korea

Contract development and manufacturing organization delivers identifiable labeling for a top-10 pharmaceutical company.

April 28, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Apple purchases 36,000 acres of timberland for packaging

The initiative with The Conservation Fund will protect working forests while providing Apple with a source of eco-friendly packaging materials.

April 27, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Walmart releases 2015 Global Responsibility Report

Highlights include progress toward food and packaging material waste reduction and the use of more sustainable—recycled-content, recyclable, and reusable—packaging.

April 27, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Beverage packaging’s benefits detailed

AMERIPEN’s latest brochure outlines how beverage packaging provides economic and environmental benefits by preventing spoilage, spillage, and waste.

April 27, 2015

Plastics/resins

KHS invests in PET center in China

Center enables Chinese customers to profit from KHS’s Bottles & Shapes program.

April 27, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SATO America has a new President

SATO appoints Michael Beedles as new President of SATO America.

April 24, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Co-packer's bright shrink sleeve idea saves the day for Coke/Fuze-owned energy drinks

Contract packager ActionPak does more than salvage more than $2 million in product with out-of-compliance nutritional labeling; a limited-edition promo sleeve boosts image of NOS energy drinks among NASCAR fans.

April 23, 2015

Operational Excellence

Global healthcare cold chain market to reach $13.4 billion

An increase demand for a certain type of product is driving the growth, according to a new report.

April 22, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: MES software

PharmaSuite MES Software is a single track-and-trace system for batch and discrete production.

April 22, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Why your manufacturing environment may soon run in the cloud

Learn why cloud computing is quickly becoming the dominant architecture from plant to supply chain.

April 22, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Aventics: Electro-pneumatic positioning system

Pneumatic positioning with standard “off the shelf“components.

April 22, 2015

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Ready meals launched in Japan

Konan Foods Co., Ltd, a food producer in Kochi, Japan, has launched a new line of ready meals whose refrigerated shelf life is extended thanks to in-pack microwave pasteurization.

April 22, 2015