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FTA Launches "Members Only" Sit

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March 08, 2006, ... for flexographic printers/converters, suppliers, prepress providers, consumer product companies, and educational institutions worldwide. An all-inclusive online directory of FTA members. Current and ...

Alien Delivers RFID Solution with HP to Improve Manufacturing and Supply Chain Efficiency

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March 04, 2006, Alien Technology launches a RFID solution with HP. PRESS RELEASE MORGAN HILL, CA—Alien Technology Corp. launches a RFID solution with HP for retail, consumer packaged goods, automotive and aerospace, ...

2006 RFID What's New

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February 28, 2006, ... The company is introducing its technology to consumer products goods (CPGs) manufacturers applying Gen 2 technology to cases for supply chain tracking applications. Tag-it EPC Gen 2 straps consist of ...

First Glance

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February 27, 2006, ... a range of products including PC boards, medical instruments, and consumer items. The packaging typically includes a plastic or foil barrier bag, desiccant packs, and a humidity indicator card featuring ...

Converting Industry News

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February 27, 2006, ...  5,245 6,880 5.0 5.6 Other Regions 2,155 2,745 3,530 5.0 5.2 Accelerating economic growth and rising personal incomes will support development of the various consumer nondurable goods markets, ...

2005 RFID What's New

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February 26, 2006, ... availability to consumers nationwide in 2005. March 2005 SATO becomes a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, which is a global business network of more than 14,000 companies that deliver innovative ...

2004 RFID What's New

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February 26, 2006, ... adoption of RFID technology throughout the consumer goods supply chain. The alliance hopes to help clients reduce overall costs and increase profitability by combining RFID tag and reader technology with ...

Reporter Clips

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January 30, 2006, ... driven by both the strong export industry and quickly developing domestic consumer goods markets.” RFID Tag Use Keeps Growing CAMBRIDGE, UK—Cumulative sales of RFID tags for the past 60 years totals ...

Converting Industry News

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January 30, 2006, ... Battle Creek, MI, has been sold to Sun Capital Partners. Mesirow served as exclusive financial advisor to Cello-Foil in the sale. Cello-Foil produces flexible packaging for major consumer products companies. ...

Paper's Prospect

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January 30, 2006, ... consumer of specialty papers with 37% of the global market. While many specialty paper markets showed a decline at year-end 2004, there were many more applications with dynamic growth (see chart).  ...

Take Control

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January 30, 2006, ... shelf,” says Wareheim. “Some studies say that the consumer makes a buying decision in two to three seconds, so the package must look different from any other to catch the shopper’s eye.” Bob Korowicki ...

Facing a Slowdown

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December 30, 2005, ... are taking money out of consumers’ pockets. Of all the homes sold in the past two years, approximately 30 percent of them have variable rate mortgages. Those mortgage rates are being re-set right now—and ...

Reporter Clips

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October 30, 2005, ... 2 tag technology to label converter Moore Wallace, who will provide EPC Gen 2 finished labels to the consumer products goods, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical companies implementing RFID for supply chain ...

Mastering RFID

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September 29, 2005, ... is less than 200 picoseconds. The entire event can take place in less than 2.0 nanoseconds. Consumers should be cautious about getting medications online, or when buying medicine abroad. This affects patented ...

RFID: The Next Generation

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September 29, 2005, ... have started implementation, the wheels didn’t turn quite the way people had first expected. “[Consumer packaged goods] companies are taking Wal-Mart’s mandate seriously. However, they are choosing ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

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September 29, 2005, ... equipment. The zippers, from Presto Products Co., an Aloca Consumer Products co., Appleton, WI, make lower sealing temperatures possible, thus reducing film distortion and improving package appearance, ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

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September 29, 2005, ... member companies, was established to serve as a resource organization that will assist brand owners in the design, development, and implementation of customized secure solutions against consumer product ...

More of the 411 on RFID

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August 30, 2005, ... Under the terms of the agreement, TI will be a primary supplier of ultra-high frequency UHF EPC Gen 2 tag technology to Moore Wallace, which will provide EPC Gen 2 finished labels to the consumer products ...

Converting Industry News

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August 30, 2005, ... says a scientific study confirms consumer articles made with its materials would not result in quantifiable exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The study, initiated by DuPont, was conducted by independent ...

Packaging Must Open Up to Single-Pass Inkjet

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July 30, 2005, ... aimed at reducing packaging, and the demand for customized and regionalized labeling within global distribution models. These are powerful arguments for consumer producer groups to integrate print activity ...