Plant Operations & Equipment

Phoenix Contact Inc: Sensor/actuator connection box

Pluscon-Sensor Actuator Connector Box from Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) presents quick disconnect, pluggable connectors for sensors or actuator valves in one convenient junction box.

February 28, 2001

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Suppliers plan their own e-commerce

If a critical mass of packagers begin to actually purchase packaging machinery and materials via the Web, will they use packaging-specific e-marketplaces, industry-specific e-marketplaces or the suppliers’ sites themselves?

February 28, 2001

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Appointments, promotions

Wepackit Inc. (Orangeville, Ontario, Canada): JP Perreault, dir., marketing and business development. —Wago Corp. (Germantown, WI): Robert Mehalick, marketing mgr.

February 28, 2001

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Bud holiday bottle: 'Whassup?'

Stepping away from its traditional metallized label, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, MO, developed an eye-catching, “no-label” direct-print look for its 2000 Budweiser holiday promotion. The one-quart glass bottle is supplied by Anchor Glass Container (Tampa, FL). It’s decorated with seven-color heat-transfer printing from Avery Dennison’s Decorating Technologies Div. (Framingham, MA).

February 28, 2001

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New line helps repackaging pay off (sidebar)

Repackaging’ defined

February 28, 2001

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Saccharin warning labels removed

The food industry has long argued that warning labels on products containing saccharin are unnecessary. Apparently its argument resonated with powerful forces in Congress because in a somewhat unusual move, the 2001 appropriations bill for Health and Human Services contained a provision eliminating the warning label for saccharin.

January 31, 2001

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David Smith forms US allian

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Agreement with Georgia-Pacific will supply packaging to customers requiring international coverage. Click logo for full article.

January 31, 2001

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Degradables caution urg

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: European retailers and consumers should be cautious about 'green' packaging claims. Click logo for full article.

January 31, 2001

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Other Marketplaces

eLease.com (www.elease.com) is a leasing exchange that connects capital equipment suppliers, the buyers and the banks that provide the financing.

January 31, 2001

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Used Equipment Marketplaces

theDock.com (www.thedock.com) is an Internet exchange for buyers and sellers of industrial equipment and services.

January 31, 2001

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Application Service Providers

Paxonix.com (www.paxonix.com) is a new Internet-enabled packaging solutions company launched by Westvaco Corp.

January 31, 2001

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Materials purchasing: label converter orders online

“I just wish more people would get on the bandwagon,” says Gary Wright, plant manager of Virtucon International Printing, Carlsbad, CA, when Net Sourcing asked about his experience with online purchasing.

January 31, 2001

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Domestic acquisitions, agreements

GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA) and Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) have made an agreement where GE Fanuc will employ Phoenix Contact’s low-density I/O product, Inline, as the foundation for its own I/O product, VersaPoint™.

January 31, 2001