Packaging News sister magazine Independent Retail News has reported that the proposals from the EU Public Health Committee also include larger 75% health warnings on all tobacco packaging, the introduction of a standardised pack shape and ...
The LED specialists behind UK-based firm, Visible Lighting, have shared their thoughts on recent predictions regarding the growth of ultraviolet LEDs. According to the Global UV LED Market 2012-2016 report, the global UV LED market is ...
Intel, increasingly customising server chips for customers, is now tuning chips for workloads in big data. Software is becoming an important building block in chip design, and customization will help applications gather, manage and ...
Counterfeit toys with a domestic retail value (had they been genuine) of €19,520,878 were seized by customs at the EU's external borders in 2012. Toys (excluding games/electronic games) accounted for 4.10% of all articles (1,637,941) ...
Tags: Toys, Counterfeit toys
For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-May), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $3.5m, down 27% on $4.8m last quarter and 62% on $9.2m a year ago. Founded in 2005, SemiLEDs' makes ...
Tags: LED, taiwan, Electrical, Electronics
IDG News Service - Google is benefiting in terms of advertisement revenue from YouTube videos that depict and even promote dangerous or illegal activities, two state attorneys general in the U.S. have stated in a letter to the company. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google, Youtube Videos
London based Authicode has announced the first of a series of partnerships to help roll out its interactive anti-counterfeit and market data platform. Authicode allows the consumer to interact with a brand via product labelling, packaging ...
Tags: QSL London, Authicode
A total of 328 website domains accused of selling counterfeit goods were shut down by US and European authorities in the latest crackdown on online fraud. US authorities shut down 177 domain names for websites selling counterfeit ...
Tags: Online Fraud, Online Sale Websites
Pharmaceutical packaging requires high attention to detail due to the critical nature of the materials required to protect the active product throughout its shelf life. Types of packaging material and design can also be influenced by the ...
Tags: Pharmaceutical Packaging, Packaging, Packaging Machinery
The Honeygate scandal is over; or at least the latest incarnation of honey laundering has come to a close. Two major U.S. honey packers, Groeb Farms in Michigan and Honey Solutions in Texas, confessed to importing million of dollars in ...
Forgery proof and protection against copies, product traceability, controlled supply chains and unreasonable claims: product security derives an increasingly demand in the globalized economy. Stuhr is a leading expert in production of ...
Tags: Gebr Stuhr, Woven Tapes&Labels
Trading Standards says that sharing of intelligence is key to fighting fakes, as MEP gets behind initiative. A MEMBER of European Parliament is supporting ToyNews’ Fight the Fakes campaign for the prevention of counterfeit toys. ...
Tags: fight the fakes, MP, Toys
The U.S. government should bar foreign companies that repeatedly steal or use stolen U.S. intellectual property from selling their products in the country, a new report recommended. About US$300 billion worth of intellectual property is ...
Tags: US, Foreign Firms, Intellectual Property
Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) announced this week that it expects positive results from the Ministry of Economy regarding research into illegally imported plate from Russia and Ukraine, which should shortly extend to other steel ...
Tags: plate, flats, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, North America, imp/exp statistics
Troy had a garage full of bikes, 20 years' experience wrenching, a daughter getting braces soon—and an itch to try a lightweight carbon 29er hardtail.? So when the 41-year-old from the Pacific Northwest—who asked that his last ...
Tags: Transportation, bike