Recently, the ethercat technology group (etg) welcomed its 4,000th member into the organization. The official tribute to koch pac-systeme gmbh, a supplier of advanced packaging machinery equipped with ethercat and ethercat p, took place in the frame of the sps ipc drives 2016 trade fair in nuremberg, germany.
As announced at the hannover messe 2016, the ethercat technology group (etg) has published a first draft of the official ethercat p technology specification, together with the extension of all corresponding documents on its website. Additionally, there has been finalized an application note as a guideline for the implementation of ethercat p slaves.
Packaging Innovation Contest De Gouden Noot 2016 has been won by FLEX/design for the FLEXA Creations Color Testers, a novel package for consumers based on both creative and functional design that fulfils a real consumer need for testing colours to be used at home. The winner was announced during the sold-out Award Ceremony at the UFO-shaped Evoluon Experience Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands on Thursday 24 November 2016. Master of ceremony was Francesca Vanthielen.
According to an independent jury the result is a very unusual and different label that is fun to use and to interact with. It is a technically intelligent solution that runs on high-speed lines and the consumer and the brand offer a playful seasonal value.
Toray Plastics introduces an exciting new, environment-friendly, advanced metal-transfer film that creates a brilliant reflective surface for premium decorative packaging, point-of-purchase displays, and specialty printing applications.
Reston, Va.; Nov. 17, 2016 — On the 60th Anniversary of its debut, PACK EXPO International and the co-located Pharma EXPO served as the world’s largest and most comprehensive processing and packaging show in 2016.
