PACK & EMBALLAGE 2013

Shareholders meeting attendees call for foodservice retailer to leave hospitals, stop marketing to kids at company’s shareholders meeting.

Kai Mariappan, senior controls engineer at Coca-Cola Co., talks with Packaging World’s Pat Reynolds about ‘clowdamation,’ mobile computing, and Ethernet on the plant floor—all concepts he learned more about at The Automation Conference 2013.

The Yamato Depositor is a custom-designed depositing solution that handles a wide variety of applications, at speeds up to 400 packages/min. when paired with a 6-point discharge Yamato multi-head weigher.

Using a patented built-in reservoir, Pacific Packaging’s unique, heavy-weighted glass bottle allows consumers to use every last remaining drop of its contents.

Podcast: Packaging World’s Pat Reynolds caught up with Robert Lowe, executive director of the Control System Integrators Association, and asked for a few highlights from CSIA’s stimulating panel presentation at The Automation Conference 2013.

The ACS 2000, ABB’s active front end drive for general purpose applications where a medium voltage installation is required-- such as pumps, fans, blowers and conveyors--is now available with higher power capabilities, up to 3000 HP.

ISTA’s ‘Responsible Packaging by Design’ process works toward standardization

New packaging for Simple Green household cleaning products includes a bottle with 25% PCR content and a trigger sprayer made entirely of plastic.

Enhanced logo, packaging and Web site allows consumers to more easily identify the various Equal product boxes by color and type of sweetener.

Weber Packaging Solutions’ new Epson ColorWorks GP-C831 inkjet printer is an industrial-strength, high-speed label printer suitable for GHS (Globally Harmonized System) large-format drum and chemical labels, and provides label print speeds up to 16.5 pages/min. to print on pressure-sensitive labels up to 8-in. x 22-in.