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Drug Dispensers

(Archive)

September 30, 2003, ... the OTC category (see Table II). Table II Some Important Patch Packages PatchDeveloperDescription Dermaflex Elan This is a passive patch design in which the active compound is contained ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... will include electronic article surveillance; radio frequency identification; smart inks and diagnostics; and polymer and other laminar electronics, e.g., the transparent electronic package. For more information ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... additive masterbatch reportedly eliminates cold-fog formation, enhances package aesthetics, and improves product appearance. Offering is said to provide longer efficiencies by as much as 35% improvement ...

Pilferers Beware

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... on the bottom shelf several opened packages of the very same item. This act of opening retail packages inside the store — known as pilfering — is annoying to consumers, but for retailers, it is a costly ...

Foil Converter Changes Course

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... polypropylene (PP) trays. The lid opening is covered with a heat-sensitive label. When the package tray attains the required heat level, the label shrinks, thus allowing for package venting. Variable steam ...

A Cure for the Common Marketing Technique

(News | New Products)

September 07, 2003, ... associates, shelf talkers, and stand-out aisle advertisements, that would help attract shoppers to the product on the shelf. Creating such a package, however, was not without its challenges. The carton ...

Products

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... Aids Productivity Zed Instruments USA, Westerly, RI; 401/596-2816; zed-inst.co.uk The ZedMini direct digital laser-engraving system for plate and sleeve production features a user-friendly software package ...

What Would PI Do?

(Corrugated)

August 31, 2003, ...  good team, and we're just getting better,” he says. Part of the Packaging Innovators' team includes SunGraphics, a corrugated-folding carton, package-design, flexo-plate manufacturing facility that earlie ...

Tag & Label Industry Timeline

(Tapes)

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 ...

Hello DBS, Good-Bye Jaded Jewel

(Folding Cartons)

July 31, 2003, ... Music lovers that have replaced LPs with CDs will have to reference their CD packages. You know the ones, the plastic “jewel case” packages, usually augmented with a printed insert that sometimes ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... Kohl and Madden Printing Inks should have read: 800/793-0022; kohlmadden.com. Easy-Open Amcor System Suits Cheese Package The EasyPack system from Amcor Flexibles Europe, Gloucester, U.K., proved ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... connectivity between nearly all types of PLCs, human machine interface software, enterprise software packages, bar code scanners, and more. Offers real-time connectivity and is said to reduce manufacturing ...

What's Ahead for Industrial Ink Jet

(Office Products)

July 31, 2003, ... and for product coding and marking in package printing applications for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and beauty aide markets. It's also being used in marking and coding lottery tickets. With DOD, ...

Lenticular Labels Emerge

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... designed, plastic lenticular lens that provides true depth of vision for the viewer of the label or package. Think of it as being able to view a 3-D movie without special glasses, because the lenses ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... broad range of specifically formulated AGELESS oxygen absorbers address product and package characteristics to provide package freshness and assure consumer confidence over an extended shelf life, without ...

FTA Raises the Bar

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, Highlights of FTA's annual forum 'Reaching New Heights,' and some of the most noteworthy Excellence in Flexography 2003 award winners. (Package graphics included!) Highlights of FTA's annual forum 'Reaching ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... product decoration in medium shrink applications. Narrow web converters can select from CD Shrink OPS 45 or CD Shrink OPS 55s. Products offer contoured package decoration with 360-deg printability. They ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... in Gravure For its new hard candy, Chocfuls, Cadbury Trebor Allan wanted two different package sizes, excellent color reproduction, and lots of detail. Sonoco, Hartsville, SC, made it all happen. The ...

Splash & Pop

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2003, A new W&H Astraflex is giving customers of Pliant Corp.'s Langley plant eye-popping flexible packages with the splash afforded by printing with ten colors. A new W&H Astraflex is giving customers of Pliant ...

FTA Awards Exemplify High-End Flexo

(News | New Products)

May 04, 2003, ... There, nearly 1,000 flexographers seized the opportunity to study the winning print jobs and comment on modern-day applications and flexography’s growing share of the package-printing market. In keeping ...