Home

What Ali Baba really meant was 'Access, Sesame!'

We packaging junkies are afflicted by a curious malady: we relate everything in life to packaging.

April 2, 2014

Packaging Technology: Page 232

Home

Industry Watch—April 2014

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

April 2, 2014

Home

Multiple cameras aid track-and-trace

Discover how the ACE CT/400 system from MG America can code and instantly verify up to 400 cartons/minute. Also, a separate GSL-10 unit stacks cartons before side-loading each case. Two cameras verify the cartons before going into the shipper, and the pusher can be equipped with inspection cameras as well.

April 2, 2014

Home

Food label changes invoke nutrition, health, history

There were many reactions to the recent announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of its proposed changes to food nutrition labeling, announced with great fanfare by FDA and first lady Michelle Obama. My reaction was, it made me think of history.

April 2, 2014

Home

Introducing the new CL4NX industrial thermal printer from SATO!

A technological achievement in design, the new CL4NX boasts a myriad of features, including a user friendly 3.5 inch full-color LCD with on-board tutorials, multiple interfaces and four standard emulations. The CL4NX defeats the notion that all thermal barcode printers are created equal.

April 1, 2014

Home

Jonathan Cobb named Federal Mfg. Aftermarket Services Manager

Federal Mfg., powered by Pro Mach (manufacturer of filling and capping machines), has appointed Jonathan Cobb as Aftermarket Services Manager; he direct the company’s aftermarket program helping to obtain maximum sales volume and efficiency, as well as helping to ensure that the Service Department’s procedures satisfy and support Federal’s customers.

March 28, 2014

Home

Dynamic Conveyor honored as one of the 2014 “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch”

Dynamic Conveyor Corporation, manufacturer of custom conveyor systems, has been recognized as one of the 2014 “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch,” an awards program presented by Michigan Celebrates Small Business.

March 28, 2014

Home

Sun Chemical partners with T+ink to form T+sun

Sun Chemical (producer of printing inks and pigments) and T+ink (developer and designer of patented “thinking ink” solutions) have formed a partnership – T+sun – an organization which will provide conductive ink solutions to make packages and objects communicate, engage customers, and manage inventory systems.

March 28, 2014

Home

R700 Triple Adabot

From the highly successful ADABOT Family of Case Packers, the Triple ADABOT increases throughput beyond 200 packages per minute.

March 28, 2014

Home

High-efficiency filling for pharma

See how the monoblock RFPC multistation by Cozzoli Machine Company can offer filling, plugging, capping and torquing on a single frame at rates from 50 to 200 bottles/minute. The stainless steel cylinders have no O-rings or packings, a no-plug/no-cap detection system is standard, and the unit is rated Class 100 for all pharmaceutical and OTC drugs.

March 27, 2014

Home

New Thermo Fisher West Coast facility offers off-site product contamination, anomaly screening

Product Assurance Services and Solutions (PASS) from Thermo Fisher provides West Coast processors with improved access to local, rapid-response, off-site packaged product evaluation to address possible foreign object contamination and anomaly concerns with the company’s facility in Sunnyvale, CA.

March 27, 2014

Home

Faster vial drying

Learn how vial drying that once took hours can now be done in minutes. The Garvey Corporation’s new vial drying system can bring even frozen liquid-filled vials up to room temperature in less than 15 minutes. The inline station draws air up through holes in conveyors, and the unit can feed a labeling or inspection system.

March 26, 2014

Home

WS Packaging Group names Fred C. Tinsey new CEO

Printing and packaging printer/converter WS Packaging Group, Inc. has announced that Fred C. Tinsey a former WS Packaging Director has been appointed CEO.

March 25, 2014