Controls & Machine Components

Flexo/offset printing

Curtis Packaging introduces its proprietary flexo/offset printing process that makes metallic packaging effects more cost effective and timely by eliminating the need for foil-laminated board.

September 30, 2005

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Sherwood Technology: Overt security feature

Sherwood Technology has launched the the DigiVU OVD, an overt security feature for protecting brands. The company’s DigiVU chemistry is applied to metal substrates and activated by a laser source to form a hologram-type image.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Esko-Graphics: Design life-cycle management initiative

Esko-Graphics offers its new Design Life-Cycle Management Initiative in North America. This suite of software and hardware streamlines the package-design and production process, from ideation through design, packaging, and production.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Moen Industries: Bliss tray former

The PF129-TFB T-Fort Bliss Former evolved from the technology of Moen’s “H” and “E” Fort Bliss Designs. This family of machines and display trays provide good top-to-bottom compression strength along with the displayability required by club and warehouse stores.

September 30, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

What is missing in packaging education

Learning how packaging is produced—the machinery side of the equation—is painfully lacking in packaging education.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Benefits statement from Make2Pack

Make2Pack--a joint working group of the World Batch Forum, the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, and the ISA SP88 committee--recently composed a “Statement-of-Standards-Benefits” document that is intended to clarify the key benefits to be gained in the manufacturing space should certain standards be accepted and applied across both processing and packaging applications.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC seeks more OEM involvement

“We need to more effectively communicate the value of servo technology and standards-based initiatives to the packaging machinery OEMs.”

September 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Economical $1000 RFID readers

Two Applied Wireless Identifications (AWID) products are now about one-third the cost of their competition: the MPR-3014 Gen 2 RFID reader and MPR-1510 reader module.

September 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Top 10 smart label tips

The following tips are offered to help companies optimize the printing and encoding of RFID "smart" labels.

September 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Food biz summit focus on RFID

In early October, some of the world's largest food businesses openly discussed their RFID programs including Kraft, Wegmans, and Marks & Spencer.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

What new skills do technicians need to maintain today's packaging machines?

Minnesota Chapter IoPP event draws expert participants from General Mills, Douglas Machine, ELAU, Packaging World and Alexandria Technical College.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Douglas Machine Inc: Shrink packer

New from Douglas Machine is the Contour SPS-30 shrink packer, said to cost-effectively maximize efficiency with new, patent-pending technologies for tray, pad, u-board, and film-only applications.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Formost Fuji Corporation: Horizontal servo wrapper

Formost Packaging Machines’ Fuji-Formost FW-3400 Alpha VI horizontal servo wrapper has four individual servo motors that drive the film feed, cantilevered cold and heated center fin sealers and end sealer to provide a system that allows for accurate and repeatable packages, and it requires minimal maintenance, company says.

September 30, 2005