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The 411 on RFID, Part 1

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... (ti.com) 13.66 MHx ISO inlays with the ISO/IEC 18000-3 and ISO/IEC 15693 standards. The Auto-ID Labs (autoidlabs.com) Packaging and RFID Special Interest Group (SIG), a research consortium for packaging ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 2

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... the military logistics program itself does not threaten individual privacy, Katherine Albrecht, director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), calls the mandate "worrisome," ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 3

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ...  RFID Journal (rfidjournal.com) reports Avery Dennison (averydennison.com) Retail Information Services and Paxar (paxar.com) have added RFID capabilities to their label service bureaus. Avery Dennison ...

CSR Must Be a Balancing Act

(Magazine)

July 31, 2004, ... The Summit also resulted in the Green Paper on CSR in 2001 and the Commission Communication on CSR in 2002. The Technical Management Board of the International Standards Organization (ISO), shortly ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... of Rohm and Haas Co. will give a paper on “Advancement in Adhesive Technology for Flexible Packaging: Non-Isocyanate Based Solventless Adhesives.” George A. Papsin of H.B. Fuller Co. will discuss “Advances ...

Materials

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, New from: Adhesives Research, ADM Tronics, American Profol, Dow Chemical Corp., Fasson (Avery Dennison), Metal Foils, Mohawk Paper Mills, National Adhesives, Rad-Cure Corp., Sheffield Plastics, SICPA North ...

RFID Experts Group Moves to AIM Global

(Archive)

June 27, 2004, A group of RFID (radio frequency identification) expert advisors initially chartered by the US Department of Defense will become an expert advisory group within AIM Global, the industry trade association ...

A Recipe for Flexo Printing Success

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2004, ... advisor for The Harper Graphic Solutions team. He has been employed in the flexographic business for 14 years. Mike’s previous experience was working for a flexible packaging company in the Chicagoland ...

New Products for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ... Safe Hazard Label Advisories, Kalamazoo, MI; 269/342-0115; hazardlabel.com The Haz-Com Caddy is called a second line of defense against “right-to-know” label obliteration from inks, oil, grease, and ...

Creo and Raine Consulting Co-Sponsor Lean Leadership Program Workshop Series

(Archive)

May 07, 2004, ... of current quality programs, and determine whether concepts such as Six Sigma, Kaizen, ISO 9002/14000, etc., are relevant to your organizational needs; An understanding of the role of performance measures, ...

Bio Break Down

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2004, ... limited in comparison to non-blended formulations. If compost programs include restaurant waste or even hot, moist coffee grounds, blended products can have poor results. Blended products also would include ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... in limited quantities. Also, in a joint letter, the International Color Consortium (ICC) and the Technical Committee 130 (Graphic Technology) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... a new flexo press. After comparison shopping, the flexible packaging converter chose an eight-color, gearless Sigma flexo press from Schiavi. Plant manager Carsten Pederson, explains, “We chose to invest ...

The Missing Piece

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... — Brand A Roll Scope2 — Brand B The following three comparisons attempt to answer the question of how well one can rely on the bcm volume stamped on a cylinder. The tests record the consistency ...

Sniffing Out the Sources of Packaging Odors

(Materials)

November 29, 2003, ... e.g., butanol and isopropanol are more odoriferous than ethanol. Secondary sources of odor are much more difficult to identify. For instance, the auto-oxidation of polyamide resins is a known source ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, New from: Amacoil Inc., Avtron Mfg., Banner Engineering, Bilt-Rite Conveyors, BYK-Gardner USA, Comexi, Converter Accessory Corp., Extrusion Dies Industries, Flexible Steel Lacing Co., GEI Intl., Gencoa ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, News from: AFC, AIM, AIMCAL, BRG Townsend, Clemson Univ., Daetwyler, d-Chemie Performance Packaging, EDI, InkSure, InteliCoat Technologies, ISO, Jagenberg (Lemo), Longhorn Packaging, EPA, IDTechEx, MeadWestvaco, ...

Tag & Label Industry Timeline

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August 27, 2003, ...  Avery Products Corp. 1970 - 1971 Richard H. Gifford H.M. Gifford Mfg. 1968 - 1969 Price H. Gwynn III Package Products Co. 1967 Howard E. Gorton Dennison ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ...  The Quick Check Series compact, portable verifiers analyze bar code quality against traditional quality parameters and ANSI/CEN/ISO bar code print quality guidelines. All standard symbologies are included ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... ratio across the product range. No technology today is used in isolation. The same product in different variants may carry its product identification in different ways, according to what represents ...