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Packaging Security Digital Magazine

This special digital magazine supplement analyzes someof today’s most important packaging security issues and provides an overviewof emerging technologies aimed at improving packaging security.

August 31, 2004

Packaging Technology: Page 526

Automation & Digital Transformation

Xycom Automation: Xycom Automation: Light-duty industrial PC

Xycom Automation, a subsidiary of Pro-face America, Inc., announces the new 1504 Light-Duty Industrial “Node” PC. This new Node PC is said to provide a more cost-effective solution for industrial applications used in less stringent shock, vibration, and temperature conditions.

August 31, 2004

Automation & Digital Transformation

Danaher Corp: Bus-compatible PID controller

The Danaher Industrials Group, a div. of Danaher Corp., has announced its new-generation and bus-compatible PID controller, the MLC 9000+. It offers superior control performance and lower installation cost than comparable network-ready PID control solutions, effectively ending the need to compromise between the desire for accurate control performance and the need to integrate loop control information into a single platform.

August 31, 2004

Plant Operations & Equipment

Omron Electronics LLC: Laser measurement sensor

ZX laser measurement sensor system from Omron has a single amplifier unit that supports 11 different sensing heads interchangeably, eliminating the need to purchase unique amplifiers for each sensing head.

August 31, 2004

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Robot boosts baling operation

Hand stacking of baled animal bedding has been replaced by a Kawasaki robotic stacker at Arden Animal Bedding in Solihull, West Midlands, England.

August 31, 2004

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In Memoriam

Dr. Jorge A. Marcondes, Clemson University, passed away June 24, 2004.

August 31, 2004

Packaging Technology

Packaging delivers for pharmaceutical and medical firms

A ‘talking’ prescription pill bottle, GlaxoSmithKline’s contract-packaged medication for AIDS, and a medical device-drug hybrid that contains, mixes, and injects medicine in one unit are among five innovative packaging solutions.

August 31, 2004

Packaging Technology

'Project blank' (sidebar)

GlaxoSmithKline teamed up recently with corrugated vendor Smurfit-Stone and coding machinery maker Markem to generate significant cost savings and simplified inventory at GSK’s Maidenhead, England, facility.

August 31, 2004

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Special Citations (sidebar)

Synthetic PaperSintecplast, Ltd.

August 31, 2004

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Single-dose, needle-less syringe (sidebar)

Los Angeles-based Penjet Corp. won a Silver Award for its invention of the PenJet: a prefilled, needle-less injection package for liquid and lyophilized drugs.

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Drug distributor sees RFID's time as 'now' (sidebar)

For the H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co., a national distributor of prescription drugs, the “when” of implementing radio-frequency identification (RFID) as a track-and-trace packaging security tool is “now.”The Springfield, IL-based company is implementing a pilot RFID program for Class 2 drugs out of its distribution center in Springfield.

August 31, 2004

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New search engine simplifies research on Packworld.com

Tabbed search results and speedier infrastructure deliver lightening-fast results in an easy-to-understand way.

July 31, 2004

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Rounded oval containers

TricorBraun’s Murano family of rounded ovals includes a tottle as part of the line. An unusual shape at the shoulder and upper portion of the bottle gives it a unique look as well as making it easier to hold for spray and other dispensing applications.

July 31, 2004