Following an increase in sales of tubes in the first half of 2006 to 5 billion units the European Tube Manufacturers Association (Etma) is looking forward to a record of about 10 billion units for the whole year.
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From 20 to 23 November a new trade fair line-up has its
premiere in Moscow: the long renowned PharmTech
exhibition is for the first time expanding to include
CosmoTech.
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Sleever International, the leading provider of sleeving solutions globally, will be at the World Packaging Exhibition Emballage 2006 with the latest in sleeving technology, including the world launch of a new type of sleeving material which offers exciting new possibilities for package design.
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Seidel develops and produces design components and packaging systems -predominantly out of aluminium–for the cosmetics industry. Furthermore clients of the writing utensil-, automotive and pharmaceutical industry also belong to our portfolio.
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Everything from a single source for the pharmaceutics
industry: the Gerresheimer Group again consistently builds
on this principle in its plastic packaging business. The latest
result of this development is a new tamper-evident closure
system for tablet containers which Gerresheimer
manufactures internally, together with the integrated
desiccant.
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PakSense, Inc., an innovator in sensory solutions for packaging, announced today mass availability of its TXi™ temperature and time monitoring label. PakSense TXi Labels are flat, about the size of a sugar packet, and can record time and temperature data for up to eight weeks. LED alerts provide visual indication if the customer’s temperature specification have been breached and all data obtained by the label can be downloaded and graphed. PakSense TXi Labels provide incredible insight into what happens to products during distribution and enable users to make better quality and safety decisions. They were recently named the runner-up in the 2006 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards in the Technology Design category.
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Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), a leader in web-fed presses print inspection, has announced its strategic entrance into the sheet-fed printing market. With an installed base of over 1300 systems in the web-fed packaging market and a 60% market share in Europe and America, AVT has also achieved dominance in the label printing market it entered only two years ago. Sheet-fed print applications are the natural next step.
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They're little green patches of film that melt instantly on your tongue, releasing bursts of minty breath freshener strong enough to wipe out all signs of that garlic shrimp you had for lunch. Sound familiar? They're Listerine PocketPaks, and they're made of a material that folks in the food industry call "edible film." Introduced by Pfizer Inc. (PFE ) in 2001, PocketPaks sparked a craze. Now everything from sushi to Sudafed is showing up on store shelves all wrapped up in melt-in-your-mouth film.
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