Coding, Printing & Labeling

In-house label printing for hot sauce

Sales are on fire for Colorado hot-sauce company that uses fresh, premium product ingredients and high-quality package labels printed in-house to entice customers.

September 29, 2011

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 989

Containers

Redesigned container for allograft tissue addresses usability issues

Tanaka Kapec Design Group addressed several challenges in packaging MTF’s allograft tissue.

September 29, 2011

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Rectangular pack is a good fit for allograft tissue

Specially designed cyclic olefin copolymer container housed in an outer blister protects lyophilized tissue used primarily in orthopedic and spine-related surgeries.

September 29, 2011

Operational Excellence

Cold Chain Forum takes global, holistic perspective

Among the event’s highlights is a new U.S. Pharmaceopeia 1083 guidance chapter aimed at pharmaceutical counterfeiting in the supply chain.

September 29, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Check weigher OEM weighs in on open architecture

Friesen’s increases its check weigher system speed by 31% and reduces downtime by 22% using controls that are PC- and EtherCAT-based.

September 29, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff's Joe Martin talks about The Power Of One

Beckhoff offers one controller one software framework and one fieldbus network to control entire packaging line.

September 28, 2011

Filling/capping, dry

Filler/bagger with single-point control

Vertical bagger with auger filler has single-point control and stepper-motor drive with encoder feedback.

September 28, 2011

Conveying & accumulation

Marketing mussels with a microwave boost

Fresh mussels have a short shelf life and aren’t easy to prepare at home. Microwave pasteurization addresses these issues and provides a 21-day refrigerated shelf life.

September 28, 2011

Sustainability

Vented cap liners cure container woes

High-altitude plastic bottle collapsing problems solved and product safety and brand image preserved.

September 28, 2011

Sustainability

BPA gets into court, too

Most of the discussions about bisphenol A, or BPA, in this column have been about how regulatory officials and governments have reacted to the chemical’s presence in packaging.

September 28, 2011

Sustainable Packaging

Global packaging research

The International Association of Packaging Research Institutes was established in 1971 as an international membership association to promote packaging as a global science to important target groups within international organizations and research foundations.

September 28, 2011

Sustainability

A Jim Beam perspective

Robert Land, corporate packaging engineer at Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc., talks about trends in packaging.

September 28, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

An epistolary column

My Lead Off column in the July issue described how Ecovative LLC and others are turning to crop waste as a biopolymer feedstock. The column generated this intriguing exchange of e-mails.

September 28, 2011