Labels

Plasma bag label provides 100% adhesion on frozen blood plasma bags

Avery Dennison’s global pharmaceutical business development manager Gary Deans shows how self-adhesive labels can be applied to challenging frozen surfaces, such as blood plasma bags.

October 28, 2012

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Secondary Packaging

Earthbound Farm installs robotic systems to case-pack produce clamshells

Gentle handling, accuracy, cost, and environmental benefits help this California grower of organic salads and produce.

October 26, 2012

Cartons and boxes

Winners of carton design contest announced

Recently announced are the winners of a student packaging design competition held at the Fashion Institute of Technology New York.

October 26, 2012

Flexibles

Video: Is your flexible package giving you the ‘Total Package?’

Flexible plastic packaging is the right choice for durable, safe and convenient food and beverage packaging. This fun, educational video presented by Dow shows the sustainable benefits of flexible plastic packaging. It's strong, helps preserve food longer and easier to transport, which saves energy. Flexible plastic packaging is The Total Package!

October 25, 2012

Containers

Skinnyminis cocktails are convenient in 200-mL PET

Beam’s popular Skinnygirl Margarita ready-to-serve cocktail is launched in a single-serve PET barrier bottle, opening the brand up to new venues.

October 25, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric Automation: Software suite increases robot performance

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. has integrated RT Toolbox2 into its popular MELSOFT iQ Works software platform and has added robots to the MELSOFT Navigator environment.

October 25, 2012

Secondary Packaging

The Vantage from Kliklok-Woodman provides an innovative, new presentation for snack food packaging

The bale is ideal for traditional single-serve, 100-calorie snacks and variety packs. The Vantage bale, strong on sustainability, potentially reduces corrugated cases, shipping costs and dunnage.

October 25, 2012

Secondary Packaging

See a single vertical cartoner erects & close flip-tops

Z Automation’s ZAC CV7.5 100CHL vertical cartoner provides a single system to erect and close flip-top applications. Run it in intermittent or continuous mode, and grow with it -- from multiple hand-load applications to the automated efficiency of Fanuc spider robotics as shown.

October 25, 2012

Containers

HDPE bottle delivers shelf impact

Historic motoring brand Bluecol is now on shelf in a custom HDPE bottle.

October 24, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Reiner's portable jetStamp 790MP: Flexibility allows for printing on unique surfaces including metal and plastic

The flexible electronic handstamp prints one or two-line impression with text, number, date and time, quickly and quietly on all even and uneven surfaces, forms, bundles of documents and envelopes. Print with the MP-Series of the jetStamp-Familiy special surfaces like metal and plastic too. The special quick-drying ink prevents from smearing on stamped items.

October 24, 2012

Labels

MRI Flexible Packaging leaders explain the benefits of flexo-printing

Whether you need to label small single-serve beverages to large propane tanks, MRI Flexible Packaging says it can offers solutions for flexible labeling, from printed stretch and shrink sleeves to roll-fed. Watch this video to see company leaders explain how they deliver the right quality, pricing, turnaround and overall cost-efficiency.

October 23, 2012

Flexibles

Fully compostable coffee pack launched

Canadian coffee roaster Pistol & Barnes offers its Fair Trade, organic Farmer First coffee brand in a compostable pack made of paper laminated to a wood pulp-based film.

October 23, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Cama USA: High-tech packaging lines: Top and side loading solutions

CAMA Group manufactures complete secondary packaging solutions. Their highly-skilled customer service and support team provides the most innovative and unique solutions for its customers.

October 23, 2012