Sustainable Packaging: Page 529

Labels

IFCO's asset tracking produces results

A digital-based color wheel track-and-trace technology for IFCO’s RPCs brings ‘tremendous’ benefits.

July 31, 2005

Closures

Aluminum bottle reinforces diet aid uniqueness

Diet capsules move to an aluminum bottle to foil counterfeiters and employ two TE features to assure consumers.

July 31, 2005

Reusable/Returnable

Reshaping packs for condoms

Global Protection selects round case to display—and sell—its colorfully wrapped condoms.

July 31, 2005

Containers

Waste 'sandwich' helps Wal-Mart recycle

More than 300 Wal-Mart stores in the West are recycling shopping and apparel bags, thanks to a special ‘sandwich’ bale.

July 31, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable Packaging Forum set

The Sustainable Packaging Forum will take place October 17-19 at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia, PA.

July 31, 2005

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SIDEBAR: The color wheel decoded

It’s a colorfully different automatic identification system, but how does ImageID’s Visidot ColorCode work?

June 30, 2005

Flexibles

Dynaclear P.V.C. Shrink Film

Dynaclear is a food approved PVC shrink-film, environmentally friendly that will not cause unwanted corrosion to your machinery. Dynaclear has high clarity and sparkle, high puncture resistance, memory, and excellent seal strength, making it excellent for all shrink packaging applications and ideal for display wrapping applications.

June 30, 2005

Flexible packaging

Rx distributor turns to internal RFID

In-house UHF RFID at Cesar Castillo marries item identification with storage location to address inventory errors and inefficiencies.

June 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Temperature/process controllers

Omron’s new E5AR 1/4 DIN and E5ER 1/8 DIN temperature/process controllers multi-loop models allow for integrated control of multiple zones or environmental factors such as temperature, pressure, and humidity.

June 30, 2005

Flexibles

Sugar packaging is in for a change

Long viewed as a commodity product requiring the simplest, most inexpensive packaging possible, granulated sugar is getting all gussied up these days (see packworld.com/go/c142).

June 30, 2005

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CORRUGATED COMMON FOOTPRINT USE IS RISING

The Corrugated Common Footprint (CCF) is now used to ship 26% of retail produce volume, up from last year. That share is expected to grow to 30% by next Spring, according to the Corrugated Produce Alliance.

June 30, 2005

Flexibles

A 'cool' data-logging sensor

An economical and compact temperature-tracking device has been field tested by Cool Dog Inc., Shirley, MA, for sample boxes of its frozen, individually wrapped hot-dog-and-bun-shaped ice cream novelties.

June 30, 2005