Beverage

What is missing in packaging education

Learning how packaging is produced—the machinery side of the equation—is painfully lacking in packaging education.

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Prepared & Canned Foods

Let's go bust some clutter

Seeing is believing. When it comes to consumer branding, the apt phrase might be “seeing is buying.” More accurately, it would be “unseen is unsold,” because consumers cannot buy what they do not see.

September 30, 2005

Beverage

Benefits statement from Make2Pack

Make2Pack--a joint working group of the World Batch Forum, the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, and the ISA SP88 committee--recently composed a “Statement-of-Standards-Benefits” document that is intended to clarify the key benefits to be gained in the manufacturing space should certain standards be accepted and applied across both processing and packaging applications.

September 30, 2005

Prepared & Canned Foods

Food biz summit focus on RFID

In early October, some of the world's largest food businesses openly discussed their RFID programs including Kraft, Wegmans, and Marks & Spencer.

September 30, 2005

Dairy

New bottle filler

PACK EXPO : Evergreen Packaging offered its new BFCG-32/16 bottle filler at Pack Expo Las Vegas in September. This small footprint rotary machine fills 8-, 16-, and 32-oz bottles at speeds to 400 bottles/min with an integrated screw capper.

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Beverage

Field testing instrument

Lansmont Corp.

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Beverage

ISO Poly Films hires vp

ISO Poly Films has promoted Russ Joseph to vp, national accounts and key customer development.

September 30, 2005

Bakery & Snack

Maxed out on packaging productivity?

P&G, Douglas Machine, MARKEM and ELAU joint Conference presentation at PELV documents benefits of Make2Pack modularity in packaging machine design, deployment.

September 30, 2005

Bakery & Snack

Luciano Packaging: Multifunctional vf/f/s machine

The new Key-Pak Model El-1200 produces flat-bottom, side-gusseted stand-up packages and standard pillow packages on the same vf/f/s machine. Features include quick tooling and program changeovers, stepper motor film drive system, PLC controls with color touchscreen, easy program selection from a list of various bag and product combinations, and free training on all Key-Pak models.

September 30, 2005

Beverage

Label/tag substrate

The Technical Paper business of Neenah Paper has introduced KIMDURA® Multi-Task, a synthetic label and tag substrate for the non-pressure-sensitive market.

September 30, 2005

Beverage

Anheuser-Busch donates canned water to Katrina, Ophelia relief

Continuing a tradition that began in 1906 when Adolphus Busch donationed to victims of the San Francisco earthquake, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch is shipping 51길 12-oz cans of drinking water to North Carolina for potential relief efforts for tropical storm Ophelia.

September 30, 2005

Beverage

RFID R&D at MIT

It seems logical that the smartest minds should tackle the toughest challenges. That’s the mindset at the Auto-ID Labs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

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Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

Achievements

Toray Plastics (America), Inc.

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