Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has announced the commercial availability of its PAXgene blood DNA tube, a blood collection tube designed specifically for IVD genomic DNA testing, in Europe. Initial target customers for the CE-marked ...
Tags: BD, Qiagen, dna, PreAnalytiX
Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, people get sick from eating food. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at least 48 million of us get sick each year, with 125,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. Many of ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Stryker has signed a definitive agreement to acquire surgical safety system maker Patient Safety Technologies for a total of $120m or $2.22 per common share in an all cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to be completed during ...
Tags: Stryker, Surgical Safety System
In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to the supply chain. This meant companies would be able to track ...
Tags: ThingMagic, radio-frequency identification, supply chain
Package design is an essential element of branding in the cosmetics, personal and home care industry and a vital part of the product development process. To ensure success, each product often requires specialized packaging to promote the ...
Tags: coding equipment, coding solutions, package design, brand image
FREECULTR could be opening its doors in your city! Bringing the online shopping experience direct to customers, offline, FREECULTR is bringing its high tech retail haven to three cities, namely, DLF Place and Kamala Nagar in New Delhi, VR ...
I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
Few fleet managers will be surprised to learn that a modern lift truck can collect data about every facet of its operation, well beyond the simple hour meter. Many are familiar with the concept that microprocessors onboard even the most ...
Tags: Lift Truck
When you test the softness of a cashmere Brunello Cucinelli pullover or try on a pair of knee high boots from Manolo Blahnik, it's easy to forget that luxury retailers face the same distribution issues as mass merchandise merchants. They ...
AIM, the industry association and worldwide authority on bar code, RFID, RTLS and mobile computing, announced the recipients of the 2013 AIM Industry Awards during a special ceremony at their 40th Anniversary Summit in Orlando, FL last ...
Tags: bar code, RFID, mobile computing
Bar codes are extremely useful in the manufacturing, wholesale, warehousing and retail sector. When used in the right way, they reduce time involved in inventory management, increase efficiency of the process and most importantly, establish ...
Demandware, Inc. the industry-leading provider of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, announced a new in-store solution that will extend the omni-channel capabilities of the Demandware Commerce platform into the physical store. ...
Tags: Demandware, Digital Store Solution
A recent study on shopping behaviors confirmed what most know instinctively: it’s no fun to wait in line at check out, and three out of four shoppers say this is what they hate most about shopping (SYNQERA May 2013). Honeywell ...
Tags: iOS Device, Textile Retailers
Packaging company Pro Mach’s division ID Technology has acquired Winco ID, a manufacturer and provider of label, barcode, and identification solutions in the US. According to Pro Mach, with the addition of Winco ID its division ...
Tags: ID Technology, Label and Barcode
AIM, the industry association and worldwide authority on bar code, RFID, RTLS and mobile computing, has announced the program lineup that will bring together international leaders in the AIDC industry to celebrate AIM’s ...
Tags: mobile computing