The Conference at PACK EXPO International, as of 10-20-06 | |||
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Tuesday, October 31st | |||
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BRAND PROTECTIONModerator: Pan Demetrakakes, Executive Editor, Food & Drug Packaging |
SUSTAINABILITY
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8:30 am – 9:15 am Don Stevens, Packaging Equipment Specialist, Miller Brewing Co. |
8:30 am – 9:15 am Jayme Leita, Senior Technical Service Representative and Chris Frank, Field Market Development Manager, Eastman Chemical Company |
8:30 am – 9:15 am Katherine Eban, Independent Investigative Reporter |
8:30 am – 9:15 am Dawn Soucek, Business Innovations Manager, Barrier Papers, Stora Enso Global Specialty Papers |
9:25 am – 10:10 am Panel Moderator: Ignacio Munoz Guerra, General Director, AutoPak Engineering Corp. |
9:25 am – 10:10 am Mai Chen, Ph.D., Research Project Manager, Rohm and Haas Co. |
9:25 am – 10:10 am Henry Sang, Publishing Systems & Technology Manager, HP Labs |
9:25 am – 10:10 am Ralph L. Dillon, Director, Compliance Surety Associates |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | |||
11:25 am – 12:10 pm Paul Botting, Ethernet Development Manager, Schneider Electric North America |
11:25 am – 12:10 pm Barry Goldberg, President, Tappa Group International, LLC |
11:25 am – 12:10 pm Jack Walsh, Market Manager, Brand Protection Solutions, Videojet Technologies, Inc. |
11:25 am – 12:10 pm John Murray, Polyflex Sales Manager, Plastic Suppliers, Inc. |
12:20 pm – 1:10 pm Paul Probst, President, vonGal Corp. |
12:20 pm – 1:10 pm Frank Perkowski, President, Business Development Advisory |
12:20 pm – 1:10 pm Carolyn Burns, Global Marketing Manager, DuPont Security & Solutions |
12:20 pm – 1:10 pm Shannon Boase, Founder & President, Earthcycle Packaging Ltd. |
1:20 pm – 2:10 pm Paul Zepf, Director of Engineering, Zarpac Inc. |
1:20 pm – 2:10 pm Cheryl Thierfelder, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Cryotech International |
1:20 pm – 2:10 pm Ralph Dillon, Director, Compliance Surety Associates |
1:20 pm – 2:10 pm Lynn Dornblaser, Director, Custom Solutions Group, |
Description: Dennis McGrew will discuss what it takes to bring a bio-resin to market – from engaging brand owners and retailers to the required technical expertise in understanding fit-for-use applications of a new material to understanding the partnerships needed with key stakeholders. As leader of one of the founding companies of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, Dennis will address the definition of “sustainable packaging,” insights on the new “green consumer” and what is required for a new material to be globally competitive on both cost and performance.
Description: Since the arrival of a high-speed video monitoring system, Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing’s Trenton, Ohio, plant is getting to the root cause of equipment problems in record time. In this presentation you will hear trouble-shooting stories and examples on how high-speed video monitoring can help your packaging line run more smoothly.
Description: Panel will provide a hands-on guide to specifying flexible packing lines capable of meeting new market trends influenced by mega-stores, safety and security, the environment and innovative packages.
Description: This presentation will discuss the trend toward embedded Ethernet in packaging equipment — a technology that is revolutionizing the way packaging companies monitor their lines.
Description: This presentation will explore the relative strengths and weaknesses of conventional automated palletizing and robotic palletizing. Traditional floor level infeed and high level infeed conventional palletizers will be compared to traditional pedestal mounted rotating joint robots. Attendees will receive a disk containing an Excel spreadsheet that will provide structure in their decision making process and budgetary costing for the various solutions.
Description: Learn how to optimize your packaging operations by first establishing reliable metrics for accurate baselines.
Description: The development of copolyester shrink films for the shrink body label market has historically relied on innovations addressing the specific unsatisfied needs of direct resin customers. This presentation will demonstrate the importance of resin suppliers not only meeting the needs of direct customers, but meeting the needs of the entire value chain.
Description: Historically, one or two component solvent based urethane adhesives have been used to make laminates for food packaging. New acrylic technologies have been developed that show similar performance to two component solvent based urethanes used for more demanding food packaging applications. Learn how these new technologies have added advantages in that they are environmentally and worker friendly (no VOC), have no aromatic amines, and can be run on existing solvent based laminating equipment.
Description: The presentation will be a review of various relevant smart packaging technologies focusing primarily on TTI’s (Time Temperature Indicators) and thermochromatic inks. The speaker will provide a perspective as to where these technologies fit and where they have significant market potential in the packaging industry.
Description: This presentation will provide the audience with an understanding of the key developments shaping the North American graphic corrugated market and how these developments will affect producers, converters, distributors and end users of these materials.
Description: Packagers working with wide-mouth containers, hot-fill cans and hot-fill PET needed a solution to help alleviate their paneling problems. A new SoftDose™ option of liquid nitrogen dosing technology controls how the dose of LN2 is introduced into the container and essentially eliminates any product splash. Learn how this new technology is effective not only with hot-fill products but also with granular products.
Description: In this presentation the audience will hear about a case study into Florida counterfeiters who knocked off lifesaving brand-name pharmaceuticals and resold them into the legitimate drug supply. The speaker will chronicle the ultimately successful efforts of a rag-tag group of investigators to stop them, the bureaucratic obstacles they faced, the response of drug manufacturers to this ongoing threat and how companies must integrate security measures into their day-to-day operations.
Description: In this presentation you will hear how Hewlett-Packard’s HP Labs group, in Palo Alto, CA, is investing resources to help combat the rising problem of counterfeiting and product diversion. The speaker will assess the size and cause of the current epidemic and discuss a number of new/existing technologies that could be part of the aggregate solution. Attendees will also hear and see application examples from HP's internal operations.
Description: This presentation will examine why product marking and coding is an important part of brand protection and increasing brand equity in the marketplace. Creating an overt or covert code that is unique to the product, difficult to duplicate and consistent with the brand’s image will help assure brand authentication and be the key means for multi-level product traceability. It will also help the company meet government mandates such as the Bioterrorism Act.
Description: With the increase in concern over counterfeiting, many companies are interested in implementing programs to protect their brand integrity. This presentation offers a step-by-step process to follow to implement a program, including simple package design approaches that provide brand protection.
Description: Every layer of packaging is a defense against product compromise, after all, that is the point of packaging to protect the product. The similar analysis needs to go into protection of the product from terrorism. This talk focuses on the approach and methods that have been proven successful across world markets.
Description: Recent innovations in multi-layer material technologies have created new opportunities for barrier paper pouches. Learn how enhanced Oxygen, MVTR, and aroma barrier properties, combined with price stability and print receptivity, are creating a whole new selection of barrier paper pouch material alternatives to conventional plastic and aluminum foil flexible packaging substrates.
Description: Environmentally friendly packaging is quickly becoming a key demand of consumers, retailers and government. Of all environmental packaging efforts, “Reduced Format Transit Packaging®” is expected to be the most universally applied across all packaging forms. Although most mandates ultimately add cost to products, the promise of Reduced Format Transit Packaging® is that it not only helps the environment by reducing resource use, but it should save manufacturers money as well
Description: In this presentation, hear how biopolymers are just as good and often times better than petrochemical-based films when it comes to machining, printing, product finishing and overall appearance.
Description: Palm fiber packaging is made from a former waste product of the palm oil industry, the empty fruit bunch (EFB) that used to be incinerated or landfilled. The production of palm fiber packaging removes agricultural biomass from the waste stream, gives it a useful life and returns the fiber to earth through composting, completing the cradle-to-cradle (or earth-to-earth) life cycle. It also lets retailer’s compost past-date products such as produce on site. This presentation is not about the branded product—as there are multiple suppliers—but rather the life cycle benefits of using a waste fiber that, at the end of its use, is compostable in the backyard.
Description: A global search for “sustainable packaging” discovers it’s a mad, mad, recycled, compostable, refillable, recyclable world. Find out what’s out there and who’s pushing hardest to cloak their containers in the mantel of sustainability; however the term is applied to packaging.