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Achievements

DVT Corp.

May 31, 2005

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MyPyramid unveiled

MyPyramid, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new food guide symbol and interactive food guidance system, speaks to the need to take an individualized approach to improving diet and lifestyle that includes sound food choices and regular exercise.

May 31, 2005

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Folding carton shipments (sidebar)

2005f 2004e 2003r 2002Thousand tons 5굾 5궴 5굅 5굼% Change -1.0% 2.1% -1.0% -0.6%Millions of Dollars $9급 $9걨 $8귱 $8궄% Change 4.5% 7.1% 1.3% -2.5%Note: f = forecast, e = estimated, r = revisedSource: Paperboard Packaging CouncilSee the story that goes with this sidebar: Optimizing paperboard’s value equation

May 31, 2005

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Optimizing paperboard's value equation (sidebar)

Folding carton market (figures in millions)

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Color label software

QuickLabel Systems has designed a new software program called Custom QuickLabel for creating and printing digital color labels.

May 31, 2005

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Tool changer

Now available from ATI Industrial Automation are patented Quick-Change Tool Changers that give robots the flexibility to automatically change the end-effectors or other peripheral tooling.

May 31, 2005

Plant Operations & Equipment

Wago Corporation: Junction boxes

Wago has introduced the new 757 Series of IP 67/68-rated sensor/actuator junction boxes, said to safely extend control cabinet functions out into the field and locally on the machine or process.

May 31, 2005

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Production management software

Rockwell Automation has introduced Propack Data PMX MES 4.1, offering life sciences companies tighter automation information integration, flexibility, and focus on regulatory issues throughout the product mfg.

May 31, 2005

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Europeans debate dietary supplements

A European Union directive that would have barred the sale of thousands of popular vitamin and mineral dietary supplements has been declared illegal by a European judge.

May 31, 2005

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Highlighting calories

The Food and Drug Administration issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking asking for comment on whether calories should be given more prominence on food labels and if so, how.

May 31, 2005

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Serving sizes

In response to the OWG report, FDA also issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking asking for comment on whether to amend the nutrition panel regulations governing serving size.

May 31, 2005

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FDA's Crawford spurns Congress

The House Appropriations Committee slashed nearly $6 million from the Food and Drug Administration’s budget next year, after the White House directed acting commissioner Lester Crawford not to testify before the group.

May 31, 2005