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SleeveCo to sponsor a family uprooted by Hurricane Katrina

SleeveCo has offered its complete support over the next four months for a family of up to five displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

August 31, 2005

Packaging Technology: Page 507

Plant Operations & Equipment

Banner Engineering Corp.: Fiber-optic sensors

Banner Engineering has introduced its D10 Series family of compact, DIN-rail-mountable fiber-optic sensors. Available in 3 distinctly different models—the D10 Expert™ with Numeric Display; D10 Expert™ with Bargraph Display; and D10 Discrete Output—all D10 Series sensors have the same housing style and interface format, making them easy to specify and install.

August 31, 2005

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P&G gains new on-site bottle supplier

In late June, Graham Packaging purchased from another bottle producer the assets of a PET container manufacturing operation located on-site at Procter & Gamble’s 110ꯠ-sq’ facility in Kansas City, KS.

August 31, 2005

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High-speed unit-dose line brightens Dey

A unit-dose vial line at Dey, L.P., Napa, CA, paid for itself in its first four months of use. From Sigpack Systems, the new line produces individually wrapped unit-dose vials printed with lot number and expiration date.

August 31, 2005

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Green tea deflated

FDA has concluded that drinking green tea is unlikely to reduce the risk of breast cancer, as some studies had indicated. FDA considered the studies to be weak.

August 31, 2005

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ISU gains big assists from industry (sidebar)

Indiana State University

August 31, 2005

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Rx distributor turns to internal RFID (sidebar)

CCI’s Rx RFID lessons learned

August 31, 2005

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New FDA labeling law...

difficult and costly.

August 23, 2005

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Beer in Russia...

cans grow from 1 percent of market in 1998 to 13 percent in 2004.

July 31, 2005

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Per-Fil certified as women-owned business enterprise

Per-Fil Industries has been named a Women-Owned Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.

July 31, 2005

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Design life-cycle management initiative

Esko-Graphics offers its new Design Life-Cycle Management Initiative in North America. This suite of software and hardware streamlines the package-design and production process, from ideation through design, packaging, and production.

July 31, 2005

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Bad French to English translations...

...that don’t translate well or grammatically improper French language to class up American beauty packaging offers a new bi-lingual twist…print foreign languages on the package to target “romance” button in English speaking consumer!..

July 31, 2005

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German company Montblanc...

...creates awareness about literacy and raises funds for Unicef, with a special campaign including celebrities offering personal remarks on their joy of reading and writing. To contribute to package design, American Artist Tom Sachs, French interior designer Andre Putman and German architect Helmut Jahn have each contributed innovative concepts…

July 31, 2005