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Coming May 23-24

We’ve teamed up with sister publication Automation World to bring you the Packaging Automation Forum, our first conference. Hershey, Coors, Miller, P&G, Astrazeneca, Wyeth, and Lilly are among the firms whose representatives will be delivering presentations.

April 30, 2006

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Bakery & Snack

Opening up

“Since I’m from Wisconsin, I do have a chain saw available, but I’m not inclined to go through all the procedures (e.g., chain tensioning) to get it going just to gain access to a package.”

April 30, 2006

Dairy

World cap and closure demand forecast

By 2009, the global demand for caps and closures is expected to reach $25.9 billion, or 1.5 trillion units.

April 30, 2006

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Book review: The science of food packaging

Innovations in Food Packaging is a weighty addition to the topic.

April 30, 2006

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Critter craze selling more wine in United States

Be it monkey, fish or kangaroo, animals give brands a leg up in the super-competitive wine market.

April 30, 2006

Beverage

Insight from Bio 2006

Seems anything “bio”-related qualifies as a hot topic these days.

April 30, 2006

Dairy

UF's smart sensor has sense of freshness

The University of Florida has developed a sensor platform that it claims is capable of tracking temperature, humidity, shock, and other variables.

April 30, 2006

Dairy

Machinery's growing role in package innovation

At PMMI Partners in Packaging event, packaging machinery automation supplier ELAU presents examples of innovative packages and the machines that made them commercially viable.

April 30, 2006

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Packaging looks good in machine vision study

Packaging applications saw machine vision sales of nearly $100 million last year, according to AIA's newly released study.

April 30, 2006

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Exhibitor Listing

Company BoothAccess Business Group 517 Adalis Corporation 925 AdProps Packaging, Inc 525 Aldelano Packaging Corporation 612 Algus Packaging Inc.

March 31, 2006

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Adhesive reduces co-packer's labor, stretch-wrap costs

Labor, a major controllable element of contract-packaging costs, can make or break a project. With compressed margins, contract packagers are seeking any opportunity to reduce operating costs.

March 31, 2006

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PLA folding cartons

AGI/Klearfold introduces NatureSource™ Visual Packaging—folding cartons made from NatureWorks PLA corn-based polymer.

March 31, 2006

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ELAU, the world's only automation supplier with its total focus on packaging, is among the fir

Having demonstrated overwhelming commitment to the global packaging machinery industry, ELAU is proud to earn the privilege of the new Supplier Member category in “the most effective advocate organization among North American manufacturing industries today.”

March 31, 2006