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Off The Shelf: Convenience drives packaging in Taiwan

A recent trip to Taiwan yields a number of unique packaging formats designed with convenience at the forefront—a key consumer requirement in this country that boasts more than 5,000 7-Eleven franchises.

August 6, 2014

Plant Operations & Equipment

Banner Engineering: Enhanced vision sensor series

Banner Engineering announces the release of the iVu Plus TG Gen2 and BCR Gen2 vision sensor series.

August 6, 2014

Plant Operations & Equipment

Omron: Safety laser scanners

Omron Automation and Safety’s new OS32C-4M is the latest addition to the company’s family of safety laser scanners.

August 5, 2014

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Harpak-ULMA appoints Vin Faherty national sales - medical/industrial and Dave Favret TFS product manager

Harpak-ULMA, provider of fully integrated packaging systems for food, medical, and non-food products, has announced the promotion of Vin Faherty national sales - medical/industrial, and appointment of Dave Favret TFS product manager.

August 5, 2014

Plant Operations & Equipment

Pepperl+Fuchs: Miniature diffuse mode photoelectric sensors

Pepperl+Fuchs added three high performance diffuse mode sensors to its family of user-friendly and field-proven ML100 Series photoelectric sensors.

August 4, 2014

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Maximize Productivity and Reduce Per-Package Costs with Ossid Thermoforming Solutions

Ossid's form, fill, and seal machinery will maximize the productivity of your packaging line while reducing your long-term costs. With output rates of up to 30 cycles per minute and the ability to produce a variety of package types, Ossid thermoforming machines feature non-proprietary controls/pneumatics and are manufactured in the USA.

August 4, 2014

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AutomationDirect: Right-angle servo gear reducers

Suitable for applications that require a more compact footprint, AutomationDirect’s new SureGear PGB series of right-angle servo gear reducers offer similar technical specifications to the PGA series in-line gear reducers, and are available in four gear ratios (5:1, 10:1, 15:1, 25:1).

August 4, 2014

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Should government dictate how healthful our food choices are?

The essence of packaging is product containment. The essence of package labeling is product identification.

August 4, 2014

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Humanize package design

There’s an amazing opportunity for innovation when it comes to packaging design today.

August 4, 2014

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Poison packaging is an ongoing process

If you take a quick glance through the list of household products the law requires to have child-resistant packaging, you might think you’re looking at a game where the object is to make a list on which each thing has the least imaginable connection to the thing before it: aspirin, furniture polish, methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen), controlled drugs, and so on.

August 4, 2014

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Industry Watch—August 2014

A quick look on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people as listed in the August 2014 issue of Packaging World

August 4, 2014

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Beckhoff: 7-in economy panel PC

Intended for the HMI hardware needs of cost-sensitive machine builders and manufacturers, Beckhoff Automation’s new CP6606-0001-0020 “Economy” Panel PC is an all-in-one HMI and controller that combines a full color 7-in TFT touch screen display (800 x 480 WVGA), 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU, and 1 GB DDR3; ultra-compact microSD flash memory cards are used as the storage media.

August 4, 2014