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Plascon Group achieves BRC Certification for Manufacturing of Flexible Food Packaging

Plascon Group’s flexible packaging manufacturing plant in Traverse City, Michigan recently achieved British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Food Safety Certification. BRC is a leading global quality and food safety certification program. Plascon manufactures film, bags and liners for the foodservice, food processing and bulk packaging industries.

August 27, 2013

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Interactive packaging

Since the advent of the 21st century, acronyms associated with “intelligent” packaging such as QR (Quick Response) code, AR (Augmented Reality), and NFC (Near Field Communication) are becoming increasingly commonplace.

August 26, 2013

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BPA: Is it a complex story? Oh, baby.

The drama over bisphenol A has already been so complex and weird, we should have expected the latest odd chapters.

August 26, 2013

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A Danone perspective from Spain

Danone’s Michelle Boadas, Packaging Development Manager in Spain, talks about packaging trends she is seeing these days.

August 26, 2013

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MPS: Multi-substrate press line

The EF press line is now available in three different versions to accommodate a range of market requirements.

August 26, 2013

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Beckhoff Automation expands US Systems Engineering Group with 2 new engineers

In order to better serve rapidly increasing requests for on-site engineering support, Beckhoff Automation LLC has added two experienced engineers to the company’s Systems Engineering Group.

August 26, 2013

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Industry Watch—September 2013

Quick run-down on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people.

August 22, 2013

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Rockwell: Sequencer tool and network scope station

The latest release of the PlantPAx process automation system from Rockwell Automation allows companies across multiple industries to improve operator effectiveness with automated procedures, enhanced visualization and new skid-integration capabilities.

August 22, 2013

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Fight food waste with new 'structured liquid' bottle coating

A new food-safe coating for plastic or glass bottles may provide a solution to food waste, allowing consumers to dispense every last drop of packaged product.

August 21, 2013

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Mokon has your solution for accurate and reliable temperature control

The food processing and packaging industries require precise temperature control for their manufacturing processes - so whether it’s extruding chocolate, mixing dough, fermenting wine, or tighter tolerances for packaging materials, you need a temperature control partner with proven experience.

August 20, 2013

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PROCESS EXPO and International Dairy Show exceeds 300,000 square feet

The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) have announced that the show floor of the co-located PROCESS EXPO and International Dairy Show has exceeded 300,000 net square feet and continues to grow: 700+ exhibitors have signed up to exhibit between the two events taking place November 3-6, 2013 in Chicago's McCormick Place.

August 19, 2013

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August 16, 2013

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Just what is distributed motion?

With the proliferation of networking technology, many automation vendors are devising ways to deploy it to distribute motion control architecture throughout machinery. A set of three schemes for doing this exploits intelligence in drives to offload some of the computing burden from the equipment’s controller.

August 16, 2013