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Packaging for the World

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September 29, 2004, With multinational clients and global suppliers, South American converter Alusa produces... Packaging for the World. With multinational clients and global suppliers, South American converter Alusa produces... ...

Editorial, Wal-Mart Friend or Foe to Packaging Industry, PFFC, May 2004

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April 30, 2004, Paper, Film & Foil Converter's chief editor, Yolanda Simonsis, considers Wal-Mart and its impact on the packaging production sub-sector of the manufacturing sector in the USA. Wal-Mart. The very mention ...

Fast & Flawless

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April 29, 2004, ... packaging film. Not surprisingly, that's exactly what Spectratek has been delivering for more than 20 years. Now, thanks to the recent installation of a high-speed slitter/rewinder and a Doctor Machine ...

Precisia Presents Key RFID Developments at Intelligent Packaging USA; Packaging Supply Chains to Experience '(R)Evolution' of RFID

(News | New Products)

February 03, 2004, ... smart/active packaging and labeling, printed electronics, lighting, and displays. LAS VEGAS, NV, USA—Speaking late last month at the Intelligent and Smart Packaging USA conference in Las Vegas, Precisia ...

Ontario Approves Historic Plan to Charge Industry for Recycling; New Packaging Fees to Begin Spring 2004

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December 28, 2003, ... a controversial plan that will require packaged goods makers to ante up for 50 percent the local government bill for curbside recycling, which will trigger weight-based packaging fees by spring of 2004," ...

Active Packaging

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July 31, 2003, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. explores the options and opportunities in security, brand protection, and product authentication with today's active packaging. AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. explores the options ...

Packaging Groups Form Coalition to Fight FDA

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July 30, 2003, Packaging associations, such as the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC), have formed a coalition to fight the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), reports a recent AICC release. ALEXANDRIA, ...

RadTech Pursues FDA Clearance for UV/EB Food Packaging

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July 20, 2003, RadTech reports it's pursuing explicit Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for packaging manufactured with ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) cured materials. CHEVY CHASE, MD, USA—RadTech reports ...

Black Clawson Converting Machinery, Inc., Is New Company

(News | New Products)

March 18, 2003, ... packaging (food and healthcare products); adhesive-coated tapes and labels (pressure sensitive and release coatings); pre-coated convenience products; imaging products; plastic films for consumer and industrial ...

In Flexible Packaging, Barriers Are No Obstacles to Success

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October 31, 2002, Success in business usually comes from finding ways to overcome barriers. But in the flexible packaging business, success is all about barriers, and in some cases, the higher the barrier, the better. Success ...

Packaging That Really Works

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June 30, 2002, Active packaging has been present as a concept for many years in varying forms, but interest has grown recently thanks to a rash of publicity about the development of newly enhanced oxygen absorbers, ...

Packaging That Takes You Away

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May 31, 2002, ... a tropical-paradise scene on a coffee package to a game piece printed and embedded into the packaging itself, the winners of the Gravure Assn. of America's 16th annual competition revealed the eye-catching ...

Exceptional Packaging Solutions: The FPA Wants You

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October 01, 2001, The Flexible Packaging Association is making its official 2001 call for entries for its annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards. LINTHICUM, MD, USA—The Flexible Packaging Association is making its ...

CPSC: The Other Packaging Regulatory Agency to Watch

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August 31, 2001, [The CPSC] will evaluate whether packaging particularly packaging of toys has intrinsic play value requiring the package to be regulated as a toy. Everyone [The CPSC] will evaluate whether packaging — ...

Antitrust Law Is Alive and Well, Both Here and Abroad

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July 31, 2001, ... economy. Sheila A. Millar, a partner with Keller and Heckman LLP, counsels both corporate and association clients. Contact her at 202/434-4143; e-mail: millar@khlaw.com; web site: PackagingLaw.com. ...

The Missing Link: Plastics History Leads to Packaging

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April 30, 2001, From fake flowers to hygienic-paper packaging, Germany's Böhme family has been in plastics for nearly 50 years. For almost as long, the company has linked its print quality to Fischer & Krecke presses. ...

FPA Celebrates Excellence in Flexible Packaging

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February 28, 2001, The Flexible Packaging Assn. has announced the winners of its 2000 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards, which honor packaging and converting excellence. The Flexible Packaging Assn. has announced the ...

Battle of the Materials Is on for Blister Packaging Market

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September 30, 2000, ... in the flexible packaging industry for more than 35 years. His company, The Packaging Group, is an organizer of targeted conferences and a consultant to the international packaging/converting industry. ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, Food retailers bank on the fact that consumers notice the "image" of a product-basically, its packaging. But what about the product's overall performance: Food retailers bank on the fact that consumers notice ...

Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws

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January 31, 1998, ... dealing with the recycling of rigid containers and issued comprehensive regulations implementing those laws. Under the California law known as the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container Act, manufacturers ...