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Ten packaging machinery trends for 2012
Feature Image 1 There's a pent-up demand for new packaging, new products, new acquisitions, and new technologies to increase packaging line productivity, reports John Kowal, B&R Industrial's packaging market development manager and board member of PMMI and OMAC. In this article, Kowal reveals emerging packaging machinery trends.
Tags: » Automation   » Line productivity   » B&R   » PMMI
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Packaging helps prevent children from overdosing from medicines at home
CDC and the PROTECT partners are involved in a new educational initiative, "Up and Away and Out of Sight," that reminds parents to keep children safe from unintentional medication overdoses. "Even with improvements to packaging, no medication package can be 100-percent childproof," warns Richard Dart, M.D., president of the American Assn. of Poison Control Centers. Feature Image 2
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Contract packager invests in eco-friendly compliance package
Feature Image 3 A strategic collaboration between contract packaging firm Legacy Pharmaceutical Co. and Keystone Folding Box Co. collaborated to market Ecoslide-RX, a child-resistant (F=1), senior-friendly compliance package made from 100% recyclable material. Legacy invested in automated blister lines for pharmaceuticals in the packaging.
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A multilayer approach to brand protection
Feature Image 4 Counterfeiting, tampering, diversion, and other sophisticated fraud are often at the root of expensive and disruptive product returns that negatively impact manufacturers and consumers alike. Using combinations of consumer and channel-targeted tools, including packaging, help reduce counterfeiting-and build customer relationships.
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