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Title Healthcare Bar Coding Applications - Beyond Unit-Dose
Author Chip Glisson
Company Datamax
Synopsis
The healthcare industry has been one of the last large industries to adopt bar coding as part of an automated data collection (ADC) technology system into the day-to-day operations of facilities. Recently, there has been widespread interest in incorporating bar coding technology into healthcare facilities.
 
Supplier News
Alcan Packaging Cumbria Launches Energy Saving Campaign
Alcan Packaging, Cumbria, has launched a campaign designed to help reduce the carbon emissions the company produces. This scheme challenges all involved to reduce their energy consumption by an additional 10% by September 2008.
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Alcan Packaging
High Performance Adhesive for Corrugated Box Manufacturers
National Adhesives has launched SUPER LOK 485 for corrugated case manufacturers who have invested in Gartech adhesive application technology, to increase productivity and profitability.
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Martor USA Offers For Sale a Line of Safety Seatbelt Cutters and Window Breakers
Martor USA offers a line of safety seatbelt cutters and window breakers that can release trapped and/or injured motoring accident victims with the greatest possible efficiency.
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Martor USA
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Top Stories in Industrial Packaging
Glass Packing Industry Crushes its Critics
Brand owners, glass manufacturers and retailers joined local and central government, recycling operators, the construction sector and a party of school children at Parliament to launch a mobile glass crusher.
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CROPAK 2007 - Best Packaging Awards
Organized by Institute for Packaging and Graphic Arts Industry, "Packaging" and "CROprint" trade journals and Tectus d.o.o. company, CROPAK 2007 awards and diplomas for best packaging in Croatia were awarded  on May 18th 2007.
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Updates on Pharmaceutical & Healthcare
FDA Hopes New Supplement Regulations will Assure Quality
If you are a packager of dietary supplements, you may have a strong reaction to the new Food and Drug Administration regulations setting current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) requirements for these products.
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Healthy Prognosis for RFID
According to RFID Opportunities in Healthcare in the U.S., a new $3,900 market-research report from Kalorama, the RFID market in the U.S. healthcare industry is estimated to be about $297 million.
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Prototype Pack has Designs on Medical Emergencies
The Design Initiative took place in spring, 2006, during a six-week Industrial Design Innovation class attended by third- and fourth-year students, and led by SCAD Professor Bob Fee.
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Editorial

It is one thing to generate wealth by indulging in a great deal of manufacturing activities. However, to protect the wealth and value created by many is something else. This is exactly why packaging is a multipurpose industry in every sense.

Corporate social responsibility has penetrated its way through the packaging sector as well. Alcan Packaging, has launched ‘Batteries Not Included’, a campaign designed to help reduce the carbon emissions the company produces.

National Adhesives has launched SUPER LOK 485 for corrugated case manufacturers who have invested in Gartech adhesive application technology. IDTechEx, leaders in RFID technology, has relocated its global headquarters to Boston, Massachusetts.

For more updates read the next issue of Packaging IDeaS.

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