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RFID: Emerging Policy Issues

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... its report of the workshop, recommending industry self-regulation in lieu of regulation at present. The report, entitled "Radio Frequency Identification: Applications and Implications for Consumers," is ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... Graphics, Statesville, NC. Sonoco says the acquisition of the company, now known as Sonoco CorrFlex, enhances Sonoco’s ability to provide customers with consumer packaging solutions that begin with initial ...

Foil Stamping: Let it Shine

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... features, says McElree. "Through education, consumers can learn how to recognize a genuine product by way of the overt features. Covert features allow the product manufacturer to go into a store and ‘read’ ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... packaged consumer goods markets, says the study, as well as the diffusion of advanced logistics and data processing systems throughout the developing world and the development and penetration of technologically ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... for various full-body sleeves, bottle capsule (cap seal), tamper-evident bands, and multipack applications. Most are printed for highly decorated labels that provide food, beverage, dairy, and consumer ...

ERPs Tricky for Converters

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, Most consumers are skeptical when they hear the sales pitch "one size fits all." However within the converting industry, many operations are falling into the one-size-fits-all trap when it’s time to purchase ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... a slider zipper in horizontal and vertical f/f/s applications to give consumers easy-opening and resealable features in one package. This is achieved by applying a continuous, controlled score to a multilayered ...

Bemis Acquires Majority Ownership of Dixie Toga

(Flexpack)

January 18, 2005, ... used by food, consumer products, and manufacturing companies, has acquired majority ownership of Dixie Toga, San Paulo, Brazil, one of the largest packaging companies in South America. Bemis acquired the ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... converters, paperboard manufacturers, and Clif Bar, a consumer product company. The purpose: to assess why companies are making the switch to recycled paperboard for their folding carton packages and to ...

Getting it Right, the First Time

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... because the consumer product companies are asking for more. "One example is on-line color measurement," says Shumaker. "Their customers don’t want you to just take a spectrophotometer reading at the end ...

Hit the Brakes!

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... of December 3, it had slumped to about $43.) In Fry’s view, "high oil prices have slowed economic growth by reducing discretionary income, squeezing profit margins, sapping consumer confidence, and widening ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 1

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... he says. "In today’s super-busy world, consumer products companies are looking to the supply chain for increased value. And we are geared up to manage their holographic requirements from graphic design ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 3

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... than many of the world’s major label markets, Asia nevertheless represents relatively developed consumer economies, and its product manufacturers and retailers are focused on brand differentiation, particularly ...

Model Mock-Ups

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... well as to Procter and Gamble and other consumer goods manufacturers. P&G and others embraced the concept, and the Haney brothers knew they were onto something big. As Haney PRC, the company serves ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... million potential consumers are an attractive prospect, the new member countries have a long way to grow to reach the GDP—and buying/spending power—of their neighbors in Western Europe. AWA Alexander ...

Simplifying Holography with Wide Web Performance

(Archive)

November 29, 2004, ... still quite a small industry." AET is dedicated to driving holography into what Aleksis says is an industrial process, rather than a craft. "There’s a great hunger and a desire from the consumer marketing ...

Good News Hunting

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... costs, and waiting for the ax to fall as they approach consumer product companies for even modest price increases they simply must pass along to stay in business. During the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ... package purchasing authority and converting materials and machinery suppliers with innovative solutions to consumer goods package converting. Developed and produced by Packaging Strategies, the event will ...

Sun Chemical Acquires Brand Protection Assets of Veritec

(Archive)

October 07, 2004, ... for screening thousands of samples, process patent compliance testing, and authenticity technology development. Veritec's technology is relevant to major consumer goods companies, and offers "track-and-trace" ...

Food & Packaging Enjoy!

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... ending with the consumer. That step is proper packaging to retain all the benefits the food technologist has built into the edible item. A carrot plucked from the ground may require no additional attention ...