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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
PCI invests in packaging's future
Drug delivery developments and pending serialization justify this contract packager's capital equipment, facility, and personnel investments.
August 23, 2013
In early July, Packaging Coordinators, Inc. changed signage at its Rockford, IL, facility to PCI, from the former AndersonBrecon.
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Fight food waste with new 'structured liquid' bottle coating
A new food-safe coating for plastic or glass bottles may provide a solution to food waste, allowing consumers to dispense every last drop of packaged product.
August 21, 2013
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Complete Inspection Systems: Barcode for instant product authentication
The HD Barcodeâ„¢ is a revolutionary 2D barcode for absolute product authentication without requiring Internet or database look-ups.
August 21, 2013
HD Barcode
Protective/transport packaging
Alternatives to spiral stretch wrapping
Insights from the updated 2013 End-of-line Packaging Equipment Playbook...
August 20, 2013
Closures
Connecting to consumers with OTC packaging
Bayer and Aleve serve as examples that satisfy consumers. Packaging needs to appeal to the 4 Es.
August 20, 2013
This is a photo of Bayer aspirin packaging.
Plastics/resins
Solvent-free spray adhesive in shapely PET bottles
Eclectic Products, Inc., Eugene, OR, has debuted new solvent-free, high-bond-strength E6000 Spray Adhesive, packaged in custom-contoured 8-oz PET bottles with a pinched-waist shape.
August 19, 2013
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Beverage
Decentralized motion, driven by intelligence
Power conversion and control/communication issues drive the choice for distributed motion control. But is this popular approach right for all machine builders and every application?
August 16, 2013
Distributed motion in action, courtesy of Siemens
Beverage
Motion: how to decide when to distribute control
Although automation vendors tend to urge users to consider decentralizing drives and distributing as much intelligence as possible throughout their machinery, most readily admit that it’s not for every application. The centralized approach is still valid for many applications.
August 16, 2013
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Just what is distributed motion?
With the proliferation of networking technology, many automation vendors are devising ways to deploy it to distribute motion control architecture throughout machinery. A set of three schemes for doing this exploits intelligence in drives to offload some of the computing burden from the equipment’s controller.
August 16, 2013
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Consumers: The solution to recycling?
Have we given up on changing consumer behavior around package material recycling? Or, are there tools that we can use to ‘move the needle forward.’ Earth911 thinks change is possible.
August 16, 2013
Sandra Lewis, Vice President of Government Relations and Industry Affairs, Earth911, Inc.
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Food for thought: Consumers’ changing attitudes toward food
Food manufacturers and retailers should take note of the shifts in today’s food culture, which are impacting consumers’ expectations for new grocery products and packaging.
August 16, 2013
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Coding, Printing & Labeling
Cook Medical meeting global identification challenges
A nearly five-year effort helps Cook and its worldwide customers identify, track, and trace some 16,000 medical device products.
August 15, 2013
This photo shows five packs of Cook Medical products.
Coding, Printing & Labeling
In-store printing on demand benefits Bello Tea
With its new in-store printer, Bello Tea can print labels on demand rather than order large quantities of preprinted labels at its two Chicago retail outlets.
August 15, 2013
This photo shows Tammy Reddy at the Bello Tea retail outlet in the French Market at Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center.
Containers
Craft brewer launches cans
Big Wood Brewery, a bold new player on the craft beer scene gaining notoriety for its distinctive brews, has launched four of its award-winning craft beers in cans.
August 13, 2013
Aluminum cans for Big Wood Brewery
Sustainable Packaging
Study points to packaging as a solution to food waste in supply chain
A study done in Australia uncovers where and why food waste occurs within the supply chain and suggests packaging technologies that may help reduce this waste.
August 13, 2013
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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Packaging is part of robotics’ banner year
The North American robotics industry achieved record growth of 17% in 2012, and as these firsthand accounts prove, packaging applications played a part in that phenomenal expansion.
August 12, 2013
A high-speed delta robot uses a vacuum end-of-arm tool to pick up individual diagnostic test kits and feed them to a flow wrapper.
Containers
Sauce bottle symbolizes stalwart servicemen
A striking bottle with an even more arresting backstory, a new 500-mL PET package for Forces Sauces, sold in the U.K., cleverly conveys the brand’s mission: to raise money in support of disabled and vulnerable ex-servicemen and women, as well as those currently serving in the military.
August 12, 2013
Pw 53941 Forces Sauces Visual
Flexibles
Flexible valve application speeds coffee packaging
Mother Parkers Tea and Coffee streamlined—and sped up—its packaging process with pre-oiled, flexible valves that maintain freshness, letting CO2 out of the bag without letting oxygen in.
August 12, 2013
The one-way valve has a tri-layer construction. As CO2 released by the packaged coffee beans builds up, the gas enters and then escapes through the valve’s top baffle layer. The valve then automatically reseals to prevent oxygen from entering the bag.
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