Packaging Digest - July 1, 2008

Bob Darnell, senior director of packaging technology at Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, began his career in 1987 as a brewing industrial engineer. Now, more than 20 years later, Darnell oversees the Anheuser-Busch packaging technology division across the globe. His responsibilities include managing initiatives to improve packaging quality while also developing new and innovative packages for Anheuse...

• Swarm robotics

• Departments
• Comment
• Increases in raw material costs pound packagers
• Design Trends
• Rum bottle canister captures Caribbean allure
• Choice tequila in an upscale bottle
• Foil-free holography tees off for golf balls
• Portion-packed soup to go
• Sparkling fragrance caps look luxe but aren't
• Can tops fit brewery well
• Look Mom, one hand
• Sunny new packages for tanning products
• Fuze ignites the beverage market in PET bottles
• LesserEvil adds more bite per bag
• 'Slimming' chocolate
• New Products
• Safety switches
• Pouch flattener/conditioner
• Recycling cushioning
• Weighing platform
• Can sorter
• P-s labeler
• PET polymer
• Vision sensor
• Labeling system
• Metallized OPP film
• RFID reader
• Shrink bags
• Wedge conveyor
• Multipack carrier
• Adhesive film
• Bags
• Security tape
• Printer connectivity
• UV-cured ink
• Bagger
• RFID emissions certified
• RFID reader
• Zipper reclosures
• Film
• Diaphragm gauge
• Rollers
• Motion controller
• Scara robots
• Linear drive
• Output modules
• Netting
• Newsmakers
• Newsmakers
• Sustainability
• Consumers need a role in the sustainability solution
• System Integration
• Two questions integrators wish they'd hear more often

• Features
• Cereal Packaging
• Cereal swings in canisters
• Form/Fill/Seal
• Cultural evolution
• Packing Food
• West meets East over cookies
• Petfood Trends
• A 'paws' for petfood packaging
• Robotic Palletizing
• Pompeian's palletizing goes robotic
• Tray-Packing Lunches
• Tray-packing sates school lunch crunch

• New Technology
• Automation and Controls
• Brewery equips to handle Fat Tire
• Food Packaging Show
• Food-packaging highrollers