Jane ChaseOn July 17, 2013, Jane Chase, senior director, packaging innovation and R&D, The Schwan Food Co., will speak at the Packaging Digest Global Food & Beverage Packaging Summit conference in Chicago. Her topic: How to drive innovation ...
Food Packaging requires protection, tampering resistance, and special physical, chemical, or biological needs. It also shows the product that is labeled to show any nutrition information on the food being consumed. It is ...
Tags: Food packaging, Food Safety
In many respects, automated materials handling systems are like mutual funds: They’re front-end loaded. We put a lot of emphasis on conveyors, sorters, pick-to-light, voice technology and automated storage solutions. Packing stations, ...
Tags: automated materials handling systems, Processing Machinery
US-based Nordson and Henkel in Germany have announced the commercial launch of the Freedom Integrated Hot Melt Packaging Solution. The solution combines tankless Freedom Series hot melt dispensing equipment of Nordson with Henkel's ...
Tags: Nordson, Henkel, Packaging Solution
As high-power LED lighting for commercial purposes is significantly on the rise, demand for COB (chip on board) packaging of high-power LED chips used in lighting will grow fast in 2013, according to Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
TSMC Solid State Lighting (SSL) plans to introduce LED chip products that do not require packaging, with brightness reaching 130lm/W in the second half of 2013. The new product is likely to save 20-40% of packaging costs, hence TSMC SSL may ...
Tags: LED chips, LED, LED chip products
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 2/25/2013 10:09:01 AM The producers of the In Focus educational TV program starring Martin Sheen have announced that they will spotlight a new trend taking hold across America's ...
Cycling apparel company Craft plans to offer consumers a 30-day guarantee on base layers and jerseys, a bold step for Huub Valkenburg, the company’s CEO. But he’s confident that once cyclists wear Craft’s cycling apparel, ...
Tags: Cycling apparel company, Craft, Bike Stuff
Spatial pattern recognition Spatial pattern recognition (SPR) looks for relationships among defect locations on the substrate surface. When detected, spatial patterns can often lead to rapid identification of the defect's root cause (Fig. ...
Tags: MOCVD, MOCVD epitaxial process
Sometimes,I may sound like a broken record.Five or six years ago,I had a fascinating conversation about pallet and packaging design with Mark White,then a professor at Virginia Tech University and Modern's resident pallet guru.I've been ...
Tags: Packaging Costs, Saving, Shipping Pallets
Ulma Packaging in the UK has announced the launch of a new operator-less system, which is useful for the trayless flow wrapping of apples and other delicate fruits. Available in three different modular formats that are based on apples ...
Tags: Wrapping Machine, vision inspection systems, external interface
Companies looking for sustainable packaging solutions to cut packaging costs, reduce waste and decrease product damage have a new resource in The Nelson Technical Center. Recently launched by The Nelson Company, an international pallet and ...
Tags: packaging solutions, international pallet, logistics solution
PMMI,owner and producer of the Pack Expo trade shows,recently announced that Pack Expo International 2012(October 28-31;McCormick Place,Chicago),has sold out of exhibit space.The show will be the largest edition of the show since 2002,with ...
Higher sales and marketing costs pushed China Marine to a net loss in the first half of the year. In the six months to the end of June, the China-based seafood snack group recorded a net loss of US$2.79m , compared to earnings of $8.9m last ...
Tags: China Marine, net loss, seafood, canned beverages
Thin film resistor supplier Viking Tech has been seeing demand for aluminum nitride substrates increase. According to Stone Wei, president of Viking Tech, this is likely to help grow the firm's revenues from heat dissipation substrates in ...
Tags: Wafer