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(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... smart label technology, Baggage Direct is said to be the world's first RFID (radio frequency identification) smart label tracking and delivery service using "truly disposable" tags. Baggage Direct, a ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... an ink re-mix feature to help convert surplus blends into new colors for current jobs to reduce waste and improve profits. Additional features include inventory control, lot number tracking, and bar coding. ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... graphics-based single window to monitor all operations and components of each line. The system allows for more than supervision of the line, notes Carne. It includes quality tracking, historical-data trending, ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... & Co. Inc., Little Falls, NJ, has been tracking it, reports Kline senior consultant Jay Dwivedi. Venki Chandrashkdar, director, polymer commercial development at Equistar Chemicals LP, Houston, TX, ...

Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... involved in manufacturing your products, the more the attributes multiply, making manual tracking and control virtually impossible. Yet, delivering the attributes promised is key to customer retention, ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

(Archive)

December 31, 1999, ... orders on the Concord Business Systems order entry production system, which Nowak describes as excellent. "We were their beta test market for bar code tracking," he says. The system tracks bar-coded rolls ...

Foil and potatoes - Aluminum Assn. presents a response.

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July 31, 1996, ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking research at the Univ. of Wisconsin on the safety of aluminum foil in wrapped baked potatoes. The recently completed Univ. of Wisconsin study ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... experienced sales and management team, supported by a computer network that's tied into the manufacturing plant in Bloomington and provides on-line, real-time tracking of order status and other key data. ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... to get product to our customers even sooner." To help accomplish that, Topflight has developed a proprietary order tracking and scheduling system that allows every department, from sales and service ...

Pollution prevention makes good sense

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November 30, 1995, ... This goal can be satisfied by gathering information regarding the multimedia waste generated during each production process and then back-tracking to determine the sources of the waste. Another method ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

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July 31, 1995, ... smaller, with the attending tracking problems these sizes cause) for manual feeding to the chopper. The new system requires no winding or subsequent feeding of trim rolls to the chopper at all - and it ...

Strong growth predicted for flex-pack industry

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March 31, 1995, ... employees with work. The top growth market for flexible packaging has changed for the first time since FPA began tracking the growth markets. Half of the converters and suppliers who responded expect ...

Solid-waste proposals still considerable at state level.

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March 31, 1995, ... and tracking system, contact Maria Donahue or Peter Eberle at 703/527-7505. Plastic-Bag Recycling - A survey by the Plastic Bag Association (PBA), Pittsburgh, PA, has found consumers are quickly catching ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

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February 28, 1995, ... in the next few years." In their search for efficiency and productivity, metallizers are making changes on their own. "We've installed our own designed computerized-roll tracking and an order-tracking ...