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Performance Systematix opens new headquarters

Performance Systematix celebrated its 20 years of business with the grand opening of its new global headquarters at 5569 33rd St. SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49512.

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New lightweight bag former

Formers of Houston released a new Ultralyte lightweight bag forming assembly. Assembly reduces the weight of a former by up to 50% while maintaining performance.

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Hire an IT guy?

When I commented recently to a packaging machinery OEM that building packaging equipment was beginning to look more like an exercise in Information Technology than metal bending, he agreed wholeheartedly.

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Videojet acquires Alltec

Videojet has acquired Alltec, a Germany-based manufacturer of laser systems for coding and marking.

April 30, 2004

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MAP Systems appoints new vp

MAP Systems Div.,Clear Lam Packaging, has appointed Peter Loveland to vp, business development.

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Paper Packaging Market Report

Paper packaging information such as market size and segmentation, company profiles, and analyses of key trends and the competitive landscape, are detailed in the 124-page Paper Packaging Global Industry Guide.

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Folding carton innovation

Matthew Unger is a section head in corporate functions R&D at Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble. Early this month, Unger spoke at Health & Beauty America’s Innovative Packaging Symposium 2004 in New York. Here, Unger discusses his presentation, “Folding Cartons: Achieving Excellence in Innovation—an End-User’s Perspective.”

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People

Gordon B. Bonfield was appointed president and CEO of R. A. Jones & Co.

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Achievements

Polytainers Inc.

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Competition call for entries

The Institute of Packaging Professionals announced that July 15, 2004 is the deadline for entry submissions for the 2004 AmeriStar Package Competition.

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Integrated print-and-attach apparel tagging system

The first fully automated solution for printing and attaching price- and bar-coded tags to apparel has been introduced by Avery Dennison Printer Systems.

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Survey: Packaging lags in IT

Packaging departments “lack a common platform for development, collaboration, engineering analysis, and database management," according to a recent survey conducted by GlobalPKG and discussed at the Dimensions.04 conference in Orlando, FL.

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Catalog of security technologies

In a business environment where counterfeiting runs rampant and where bioterrorism legislation, 21CFRPart11, and a variety of other security-related issues clamor for attention, it’s likely that newly developed security technologies will find their way into the design of new packaging machinery with greater and greater frequency.

April 30, 2004