Packaging Technology: Page 426

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Dates set for SI's 2009 Package Design Workshops

Shelf Impact!’s one-day Package Design Workshops will return in 2009 with a popular fast-paced, roll-up-your-sleeves interactive format in an intimate setting.

January 8, 2009

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New packs circulate word about Hunter Fan's positioning

How does a heritage brand respond to increasing competition from “me-too” products?

January 8, 2009

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Carton design lures buyers

Communicative descriptors and color schemes on cartons help Ansell Healthcare Products introduce its LifeStyles condoms.

January 8, 2009

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Thermal-transfer overprinter

IID Technology’s COM II thermal-transfer overprinter has a 300-dpi print head that produces sharp, high-quality text, bar codes, logos, and data matrix codes.

January 6, 2009

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Case cutter

The CCU-6-12 case cutter system from R.E.D.Stamp integrates easily with existing systems or works as a stand-alone piece of equipment.

January 6, 2009

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Servo-driven rotary placer reaches 300/min

For placing onserts, hang tags on bottles, warranty cards, promo literature, and much more, this rotary placer from Graphic Packaging relies on advanced servo technology for fixed or random-pitch placement at very high speeds.

January 5, 2009

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Lighter Side of Packaging: An Uplifting Experience

Thanks to all of you who shared your stories in a recent survey. It turns out the packaging world is even quirkier than we thought.

January 4, 2009

Plant Operations & Equipment

Aerotech, Inc: Gear-driven goniometric cradles

Aerotech’s AGC Series motorized mechanical goniometers are used in applications where 90° of angular travel is needed with the payload at the center of rotation, or where two axes of rotation are needed about a common point.

January 4, 2009

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MSU Forum set for January 27

Packaging Executives Forum II will be held at Michigan State University's Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center.

December 17, 2008

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Horizontal syringe labeling system

Harland system feeds product through a starwheel to a Comet wipe-on labeler that’s equipped with an Allen hot-stamp coder, Cognex vision system, Sick bar-code reader, a Cognex label presence sensor, and an Allen-Bradley control panel.

December 15, 2008

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Installs and start-ups

With the assumption that packaging machinery that starts up smoothly after installation can only get better, we solicited advice for the critical installation and start-up phases of packaging machinery from the experts: packaging equipment vendors.

December 15, 2008

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Solid-dose product recovery system

The closed-frame design of BellatRx’s RecoverX 1040 allows the operator to automatically recover product from containers of various shapes and sizes at speeds up to 40 bottles/min.

December 15, 2008