Packaging Digest - January 1, 2008
Features
PLA shrink labels get the 'green' light
Four-year-old AgroLabs, Inc., Hillside, NJ, a manufacturer and marketer of healthful, nutritional products, has been a driving force in human nutrition, combining product innovation with clinical science. The subsidiary and nutraceuticals business of Integrated BioPharma, Inc. distributes these products nationwide through mass market, grocery, drug and vitamin retailers.
- Departments
- Brand Security
- Copyrighting products' packaging is important in protecting a brand from foreign pretenders
- Comment
- Retail food trends may impact package design
- Newsmakers
- Newsmakers
- Sustainability
- Developing standard metrics would be ideal goal for 2008
- System Integration
- Study finds skilled labor shortage prompts growth in automation services
- Design Trends
- At-a-glance system for rating nutritional quality to launch in supemarkets nationwide
- Coole Swan cream liqueur takes flight in the U.S.
- Black XS is anything but basic
- Thermoformed pack debuts for soup
- Food-scoring system to premiere
- End of an era for Jarritos
- Canned fruits, vegetables come out of the can
- New organic juice drinks have less sugar and calories
- Features
- Confection Packaging
- Fully loaded treats
- Cushioning Signage
- Foam tubing speaks 'sign' language
- Package Inspection
- Eliminating the 'trail' from trail mix, nut packs
- Packaging Manufacturing
- Color-rich, new look in a Jiffy
- Palletizing Water
- Automatic palletizing gives bottler a clear advantage
- Spice Canister
- One-piece IML canister shakes up spices
- Westpackshow.com
- WestPack on the horizon
- New Products: Equipment
- Roll-wrapping system
- Hot-melt applicators
- Tray formers
- Brochure
- Rotary actuators
- Palletizer cell
- Pump fillers
- Printer
- Pharmaceutical track-and-trace solution
- Magnetic encoders
- Control system
- Labeling system
- Case sealer
- Palletizer
- Thermal printers
- Mandate compliance solution
- Case erector
- Platform
- Filling machine
- Printhead
- Ball bushings
- Brochure
- Robot communication capabilities
- De-lidder
- Retractable handles
- Lid processor
- Checkweigher
- Weigh-batching system
- Mini drive
- Motion controller
- Temperature logger
- Ratio availability
- Touchscreen computers
- Touch switch
- Steam tunnel
- PET sensor
- Servo motors
- New Products: Materials
- New Technology
- Automation & Controls
- Boosting shrink-sleeve speed and accuracy
- RFID Application
- Auto-ID system polishes furniture production
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