Bar Coding

What Can QR Codes Do For Manufacturing?

(Marketing Mojo)

March 21, 2013, ... capable of carrying much more information than barcodes. For example, you can use them throughout your building to connect employees to your intranet and give them updated information about things such ...

PMMI Press Event Puts Pack Expo 2013 into Focus

(News | New Products)

March 19, 2013, ... for the Vegas show are high. Julie Ackerman, PMMI’s senior director of communications and PR, said the Guadalajara show set the bar high; it attracted more than 10,000 visitors, triple expectations. The ...

Berkeley Machinery Introduces Flexo Press

(Narrow Web)

March 16, 2013, ... of different print materials to run through the print units without exerting pressure on the drive gears. This is said to alleviate any possible mechanical pressure through the print units to avoid bar ...

OMET Celebrates 50th Anniversary

(Narrow Web)

March 16, 2013, ... and narrow and mid-web printing markets with a series of events dedicated to customers, the press, and its employees. Celebrations will begin with the participation to Tissue World in Barcelona, Spain, ...

Clicherlux Receives Esko HD Flexo Certification

(News | New Products)

March 10, 2013, ... e customer's setup. We're able to get 'right on the spot'," adds Trombeta. With Microcell screens, Clicherlux has also been able to improve small text and bar codes on micro-corrugated and folding cartons.  ...

Microwaveable Package Brings Home the Bacon with Top Product of Year Award

(Metallizing)

March 09, 2013, ... in the snack food aisle, evidencing high gloss, vivid graphics, and barrier properties that eliminate the need for inner bags or hot melt sealing. The consumer will appreciate a pattern-coated silicone rele ...

SATO Increases Production of ECONANO Labels

(Green Converting)

March 06, 2013, New facility produces base materials for the CO2-reducing labels   TOKYO, JAPAN | SATO, a provider of barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, reports plans to increase production of its ...

iSys Label Offers Variable Data Printing Software

(News | New Products)

March 05, 2013, ... iVDP offers the ability to combine static and dynamic content to create varying multi-graphic labels containing variable text, images, and barcodes. Layouts can be easily set up, company says, and configured ...

Campbell's Skillet Sauces Packaged in New Format

(Bag Pouch News)

February 28, 2013, ...  varnish. The matte varnish is used to highlight the product and creates a package with maximum shelf appeal—a process that is unique for retort pouches. According to Dave Bartish, Ampac’s marketing director ...

Domino Printing Sciences Offers New Scribing Lasers

(News | New Products)

February 25, 2013, New scan head and Red Tube variant for PP applications are now available   CAMBRIDGE, UK | Domino Printing Sciences has launched the latest version of the D-Series range of scribing lasers, including ...

Martignoni Corona Treaters for Many Substrates

(News | New Products)

February 25, 2013, Plastimetal line is said to save space and offer high-definition treating   MILAN, ITALY | Martignoni reports its Plastimetal corona treatment systems are designed to treat both conductive (bare ...

Static Beat | How Do Passive Dissipaters Neutralize Static?

(Static-Beat)

February 24, 2013, ... tinsel, and ionizing cords, or active dissipaters, such as AC static bars, are used to neutralize static. Understanding how passive ionizers work helps you decide when to use them and where to install ...

EPG Closes Loop on Presses to 78 Inches

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

February 20, 2013, ... densitometers, and we are very pleased that the AutoKey and Adelphi AutoKey systems are available to operate with our new SDT-78, which can be used to scan color bars from any size press to 78 inches.” ...

Charter NEX Films To Add 2 Coex Lines

(Film Mfg.)

February 18, 2013, ... NEX Films manufactures monolayer, coextruded, and barrier blown films for a wide variety of high performance packaging applications from their manufacturing facilities in Superior, Rhinelander, and Milton, ...

Pakiston-based Tri-Pack Films Installs Atlas Slitter/Rewinder

(News | New Products)

February 11, 2013, ...  for coating, laminations, form/fill/seal packaging and side-weld bag applications, with high barrier properties. The company’s film production is destined mainly for use in packaging of consumer good ...

Creative Labels Installs Epson SurePress

(Label/Tape News)

February 11, 2013, ... deliver smooth gradations, remarkable color quality, and sharp detail for easy bar code readability, plus crisp small type and line work Industrial Quality Inks: Six-color (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, ...

Show Preview | ICE USA 2013

(Trends/Management)

February 04, 2013, ... ls for improving the mechanical and barrier properties of flexible packaging materials. The second session features Innovations in Traditional Barrier Enhancements for packaging films. And the third sess ...

AIMCAL Organizes ICE Europe Conference Program

(Coating/Laminating News)

January 27, 2013, ... control, and barrier properties. The Web Handling track, led by Dr. Dilwyn Jones of Emral Ltd., Yarm, U.K., will provide a tutorial on winding with sessions devoted to roll defects, web tension, nips, ...

Flexible Packaging | Exopack Wins FPA’s Top Award for Kraft’s YES Pack

(Flexpack)

January 21, 2013, ... that helps facilitate consumer usage of the product while maintaining the barrier properties keeping the remaining product fresh. With a simple twist of the package, the consumer has their individual cough ...

Spain Passes Waste Recycling Act

(Green)

January 20, 2013, ... which was passed November, 29, 2012. According to David Barrio, director of recycling at ASPAPEL, “This new legislation upholds the legality of Recycling ‘Made in Europe’ and gives Spanish generators ...

What do Kerite, UMASS-Lowell, Malloy, Womer and Glycon Have in Common?

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

January 17, 2013, ... extruder in storage. Used to make telegraph cable, the extruder was driven by a belts and pulleys powered by a water wheel on the nearby Naugatuck River. Malloy said the barrel was heated by steam. Kerite ...

Domino Amjet Offers Digital Printers

(Label/Tape News)

January 14, 2013, ... be simple, productive, and cost-effective. Prints barcodes and numbering in a defined sequence, variable data QR, Data Matrix 2D codes, and an extensive range of barcodes. Offering personalization of high ...

Intl. Paper Exploring Green Packaging Options

(Carton Box News)

January 13, 2013, ... to explore the development of products using EarthCoating, a mineralized barrier coating for paperboard products. The company’s coated paperboard division plans to create a line of folding carton and cupstock ...

Heartland Sheets Installs Scrap Trakker

(Carton Box News)

January 13, 2013, ... to help corrugated facilities take better control of waste, SCRAP TRAKKER is a data collection and reporting software system combined with a data collection hardware package utilizing touchscreen and bar ...

Coating Matters | It’s a Turbulent World

(Coating/Laminating)

January 10, 2013, ... ugh the same cavity and maintain a distinct layer. The advantages of this phenomenon can be seen in multilayer packaging films that have a printable polymer on one side and an oxygen barrier that can con ...

Management | So, Should We Patent That?

(Trends/Management)

January 08, 2013, ... wanted a “gentleman farm” where he could enjoy having a barn, a tractor, and a few cows. After he retired from the Air Force, he was looking to purchase some land in central Indiana where he was to join ...

Lattice Labels Increases Capacity with Gallus Press

(Label/Tape News)

January 02, 2013, ... by its customers with their own variable information. Typical customer applications are bar codes and addresses so many of Lattice Labels trade customers are selling to logistics companies, large multiple ...

Chocolate Wrapped in Compostable Packaging Film

(Film)

January 02, 2013, ... around the world, not just Italy, is promoted by Alce Nero. “We decided to move from standard plastic to a biodegradable and compostable alternative to wrap our chocolate bars. Metallized NatureFlex ...

Interstate Pkg. Boosts Throughput with Esko Digital Flexo Suite

(Flexpack News)

January 01, 2013, ... felt that with plate material, there were opportunities to reduce costs.” Along with some other modifications to the platemaking process, such as barcoding plates, the use of Digital Flexo Suite with ...

Readers Choice: Top 11 New Products of 2012

(Coatings)

January 01, 2013, ... and filling and shipping is as few as two days. CONTACT COMPANY   Filmquest NanoShield The Filmquest Group, Bolingbrook, IL, offers NanoShield, a high-barrier plastic film layer suited for food ...