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Stora Enso Receives FSC Certification

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February 12, 2006, The Wood Supply U.S. unit of Stora Enso has been third-party-certified for Forest Stewardship Council chain of custody for all its purchases of raw wood fiber. PRESS RELEASE WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI—The ...

HealthPack 2006 Offers Online Discount

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January 31, 2006, ... both tabletop exhibits and a conference program, themed "The Voice of the Customer." Conference topics include: The lifecycle of a package. (Supply chain management, purchasing process, warehousing ...

Under Pressure

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January 30, 2006, ... increasingly become blurred, all players in the supply chain—including laminators, machinery manufacturers, ink manufacturers, distributors, and converters—need to be alert to the needs of their customers ...

Adhesives Research Announces New Business

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January 10, 2006, ... to aid in supply chain control, product surety, and risk mitigation for industries faced with global counterfeiting. Customizable ARmark Authentication Markers offer benefits to customers seeking a ...

Reporter Clips

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December 30, 2005, ... Gen 2 inlays into its Smart Trac RFID labels for retail and Dept. of Defense RFID supply chain applications. “As a result of [this] alliance, we expect to become a primary RFID label source to early adopters ...

The RFID Buzz Gets Louder

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November 29, 2005, ... packaging involves obtaining data on all aspects of the supply chain. Suppose a supplier of polymer makes a batch of material. It goes to an adhesive manufacturer who compounds it into an adhesive, which ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2005, ... strike in Finland. Finland represents about 15% of the world’s paper products production, including a high percentage of label facestocks and release liner base, so mid-year specialty paper supply in Europe ...

ASC Call for Speakers

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November 14, 2005, ... Equipment Business Section International and Domestic Markets Finance/Accounting Issues Development in Supply Chain Management Product Stewardship Technical Sessions Innovations in Pressure-Sensitive ...

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 ...

Converting Industry News

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October 30, 2005, ... about the concept of bringing the supply chain together, H.A. Bruno reports. In addition to CPP and Pack Expo, organized by the Arlington, VA-based Packaging Machinery Mfrs. Inst. (PMMI), several industry ...

Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?

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October 30, 2005, ... and creating a market for preprinted rolls of label “blanks” for supply to individual companies for subsequent overprinting as part of their product tracking systems. Normally demanding only that a ...

The Fashion Side of Flex-Pack

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September 29, 2005, ... formed in 2002 in recognition of the need to develop a supply-chain-focused approach to understanding the issues involved in package sustainability. Prof. Kees Sonnenveld, head of the Packaging Dept., ...

POP Goes the Platemaker

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September 29, 2005, ... designed for a relatively short life. Campaigns are short, sharp, and focused for maximum impact. However, to achieve a cost-effective supply chain—especially when unit numbers are low—production and distribution ...

Reporter Clips

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September 29, 2005, ...  Mat Mellis, VP RFID and Specialty Converting, says, “This new…process, along with our other complementary production developments, will help close the gap between current supply and forecasted demand ...

Mastering RFID

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September 29, 2005, ... for RFID Levels in Key Supply Chain Phases Phase/Failure Rate  IC/Inlay Mfg.ConvertingPackaging/ DeliveryApplication/ Use Range 1%-%-30% 1%-%-10% 1%-%-6% 1%-%-30% Typical 5%-%-6% ...

Profit Squeeze

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September 29, 2005, ... European countries, especially Poland, and sourcing flexible packaging locally. These packagers, who originally used their Central European plants to supply only within the region, now increasingly are ...

RFID: The Next Generation

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September 29, 2005, ... Whether it’s smart packaging in the pharmaceutical industry, tagging at an airport or library, or implementation within the supply chain, you can’t escape the buzz surrounding RFID. What does this ever-growing ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

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September 29, 2005, ... submission detailed research into the effects of paperboard substrate choice on frozen food unsaleables, exploring both where damage occurs in the supply chain and the role of compression strength in packaging ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

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September 29, 2005, ... and capabilities throughout the supply chain to enable higher quality and consistency of products and services to global customers. RDP Now Part of Drent Goebel EERBEEK, THE NETHERLANDS—Drent Goebel ...

Mastering RFID, Part 2

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September 29, 2005, ... are required. Some neutralizing bar designs allow as many as 15 bars to be connected together to a single power supply with monitoring circuitry [12]. A typical daisy-chain arrangement of the static bars ...