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Brand Protection with Micro-Dots

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... printing domains, the incident described above has two important implications. First, an industrial package printer could produce secured packaging for manufacturers using standard printing machines and ...

Pouch Progress

(Flexpack)

December 31, 2006, ... Pouch 2006 Conference in Atlantic City, NJ, reports a consumer preference study conducted by Sonoco found that consumers prefer the retort pouch over other package forms for ready-to-eat soup, rice, and ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ...  Upgraded BKS010 Series ultra-compact web guide is said to offer better dynamic control for narrow web applications. Standard package includes an ultrasonic or optical edge sensor; built-in position controls; ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... equipment and comply with FDA regulations. Knowing interactions by the adhesives with package materials is also important. Making retort pouches uses multilayer laminations. This paper reviews the various ...

Wal-Mart's Clean Imag

(Editorial)

November 30, 2006, ... can’t compete based on price. Closer to home, a lot of package manufacturing has been lost to offshore suppliers to bring pricing in line with retailer expectations. In all of this, Wal-Mart doesn’t suffer ...

Please Touch

(Folding Cartons)

November 30, 2006, ... from Sealed Air Corp., which allows shrinkwrapping at speeds up to 100 packages per minute. “It is fully servo driven and stores jobs in memory for automatic recall and setup of repeat jobs. It is the ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... melt strength resins, additive packages with better heat and color stability, and advanced clarifier technology. Combining these can create films with the optics of BOPP and the flexibility of the blown ...

Seeing RFID in Action

(Archive)

October 07, 2006, ... has complied "RFID in Action 2006," covering global RFID implementations. IDTechEX has included cases studies using a variety of technologies in diverse industries, including the retail and consumer packaged ...

Capturing Growth in Paper

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2006, ... come at the expense of paper-based packaging materials to a large extent. The growth in manufacturing outsourcing also has had a negative impact on domestic paper packaging demand, as packaged goods ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

September 17, 2006, ... FILMtech, and people in the news. Covering the Full Spectrum of Industry News, Events & Activities Speed Sells Olmarc Packaging, a contract packager in Chicago, IL, is the buyer of the first Evolution ...

Q&A with Jeff Damour

(Archive)

September 17, 2006, ... labor, and material. Q. What is the most rapidly growing segment of the industry? Right now and for the last few years, package printing has been the fastest growing segment in the US. Advances in ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

August 31, 2006, ... technology and is equipped with auto-adjust left- and right-side board guides for the reliable transport of corrugated sheets and other package materials. Includes an in-line board cleaning unit, an auto-sheet ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

July 31, 2006, ...  An example of an opportunity is retort packaging. PVDC blown coextruded films are an excellent option to replace foils or metallized films when a microwaveable or transparent package is desirable with ...

2006 RFID What's News, Part

(Archive)

July 29, 2006, ... from the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) in California. As of July 2006, Sirit delivers a combination of its traditional sealed and new battery replaceable Title-21-based toll transponders, including packaged ...

Better Labels Through Chemistry

(Magazine)

July 09, 2006, ... met this requirement simply by including a printed sheet in the package along with the product itself; many companies still do, but that, of course, can be done only if the product actually comes in a ...

Films Face Off

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... in which the pouch is filled with the food product and then heated to 125 deg C. The consumer then reheats the food in the single or multiple serving pouches in which it is packaged. The Japanese, Europeans, ...

Pouch Power

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2006, ... security bags. “Cool” Heat Seals According to Woodhouse, “We wanted to offer consumers a package that is easy to use and does not require refrigeration before it is opened. We also wanted the package ...

Board to the Future

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... that not only holds ice but also the water that forms once the ice melts. The package, created for Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma de Tecate, is in the form of an end-load sleeve so it can be loaded ...

Stretching Boundaries

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2006, ... on-going support and service. There are also teams of electrical and mechanical engineers focused on internal operations. Their mission is to modify, customize, or design package manufacturing and ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... package for PrintED accredited programs. PrintED is an accreditation and certification program for graphic communications courses of study at the secondary and post-secondary levels, with a presence in ...