"Change, Innovation, and Sustainability" | |||||
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THE CONFERENCE AT PACK EXPO PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE | |||||
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2008 | |||||
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UPGRADING OPERATIONS |
SUSTAINABILITY |
PROCESSING |
CONTAINERS & MATERIALS |
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8:30 - 9:10am |
Developing the Packaging Workforce of the Future |
New Technologies for Lightweighting Polyolefins |
In-Process Product Traceability: From Concept to Reality |
The Hole in RFID: Preventing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Loss |
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9:20 - 10:00am |
RFID's Impact on Process, Partnerships and Profit |
COMPASS - A New Tool to Map the Environmental Impact of your Packaging Material and Application Choices |
Surface Pasteurization of Particulate Foods - Controlling Moisture and Quality |
Packaging Production Waste & Rework - A Gold Mine |
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Keynote |
Packaging Sustainability: From Boardroom to Break Room Trevor Cusworth, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP | ||||
11:00 - 11:40am |
Implementing a World-Class Packaging Operation |
Tradeoffs in Sustainability in Wrapping |
Pneumatic Conveying in the Food Industry: Options in Sanitary Design and Technology |
Designing Rigid Shelf Stable Barrier Packaging |
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11:50am - 12:30pm |
Prove It! Does Your Training Make a Difference? |
Achieving Sustainability through Adhesive Dispensing Technology |
Increase Profits by Aligning Your Assets |
Designing Sustainable Transport Packaging ... Then Managing It |
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12:40 - 1:20pm |
Electrical Regulation Compliance for OEMs - What You Don't Know Might Shock (and Cost) You! |
Minimizing Packaging without Compromising Integrity |
Over-treatment of PET - Fact or Fiction Part 1: A Study of Web Density, Corona Swell Time, Film Selection, Dyne Level and Water Soak Bond Strength |
Leveraging the Findings of a Corrugated Life Cycle Assessment |
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Description: Availability of an adequately skilled workforce is a crucial issue for packagers in North America. When industry, government and education work together it is possible to up-skill existing employees and create a pipeline of new workers for the gold-collar jobs in the packaging industry. Members of this panel will describe their successes which have come about by developing partnerships between local employers, national associations, secondary and post-secondary educators, and state and federal agencies. Topics will include the use of packaging employment demographics, basic employability programs, mechatronics training, articulation of 2+2+2 educational curricula, youth programs and related topics.
Description: RFID tagging requirements affect many companies, worldwide. Whether you are a medical-, consumer product- or military-based company, current RFID trials and mandates will have an influence on your business operations and, by extension, your business decisions. This presentation will analyze how meeting a requirement impacts a business with respect to the additions to, or changes in, the process flow, strategic partnerships, and the net effect on profit.
Description: When implementing a world-class packaging operation users are faced with the following challenges:
The user participants will briefly discuss these challenges and then open the floor for a roundtable discussion on the topic with questions from attendees.
Description: Where the "Holy Grail" of measurement is ROI, can we apply the same principles to training's cost benefit? We know we need to train; we know it often gets slighted; we know it's hard to sell to management; so when and how will we begin to quantify the value of training.
Keeping "blended learning" in mind, ROI and "Return on Expectations" will be discussed. Changeover case studies will illustrate how costs and benefits are identified and Internal rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV) or Payback Analysis are applied to quantify the value of the investment. Sample worksheets will be provided.
Description: U.S. electrical regulations for equipment are complex. It has been our experience at Procter & Gamble that very few equipment manufacturers understand what is legally required for their equipment to be installed and used in the U.S. In this presentation we will discuss what is required from OEMs to ensure their equipment will meet the electrical regulations for the U.S.
Topics to be discussed in this presentation include:
Description: Polyolefin resin and fabrication technologies continue to move packaging applications to lighter weights while maintaining necessary functional performance. Efforts with resin design (higher modulus, better ESCR resistance) and foam technology is evolving quickly and yielding results to lightweight containers by 20% from where we were just two years ago. An overview of four different technologies will be presented. The technologies can be used to produce thermoformed and blow-molded, polyolefin-based packaging.
Description:COMPASS (Comparative Packaging Assessment) – a package engineering and design tool that provides a quick comparative measure of the environmental impact of your contemplated packaging choices – will be in Beta release to members of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition this Fall and in general release by early 2009. This presentation will give packaging professionals an early peek at how, why and by whom COMPASS was developed and how packaging managers could use it to get out of the environmental woods.
Description: When looking to create an attractive package through use of wrapping materials while weighing issues of sustainability, there are several factors to be considered: attractiveness of package, cost, energy consumption in the process, landfill usage, substitutability of alternatives (such as bundling for cardboard boxes, trays instead of boxes).
We will evaluate the tradeoffs in energy consumption, film alternatives and flexibility in creating a package that:
Description: Manufacturers and suppliers are discovering that the unlimited use of adhesives materials in packaging is no longer an option. With mounting cost pressures and environmental concerns, finding new ways to effectively apply adhesives-with minimal impact on processes and the bottom line-is an industry-wide imperative.
This presentation will discuss a number of new approaches to the application of adhesives in packaging. It will explore trends in substrates and adhesives, application methods that can substantially reduce adhesives use and recent advancements, from EVA to Metallocene-based solutions. In addition, the presentation will address the use of recycled paperboard in packaging.
Note: We are working on securing a third party to present with us. If that is not possible, will present a case study where we talk about the application without disclosing the customer name.
Description: Effective packaging plays a critical role in reducing impact on the environment. Appropriate packaging design, material use and latest value-added technologies can significantly impact energy consumption, transportation and storage costs, packaging waste and product shelf life.
Adalis will discuss how latest solutions such as display-ready, easy-opening and packaging reinforcement features can result in increased packaging sustainability, performance and cost reduction, as well as a renewed competitive edge in the marketplace.
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Description: This presentation will examine the technology of pneumatic conveying with an emphasis on food and sanitary applications. Key topics to be discussed will include:
Description: What if your existing production machinery were operating at optimized efficiency? That would mean that you would have less scrap, exceptional quality, higher line speeds, reduced maintenance costs, no capital investment and, ultimately, higher profits. Many companies are realizing the benefits of aligning their assets. How about you?
Description: Converters of polyester films have long known the risk of corona over-treatment of polyester film. Over-treatment can be defined as the point at which the treatment level no longer contributes beneficial properties to the film surface and may begin to cause degradation of the surface. But how does the converter know when this point has been reached? Is testing the dyne level a true measure? What variables affect over-treatment? A study was designed to look at the dyne level of corona-treated film versus bond performance in a simulated extrusion coating process to measure over-treatment. Bond failure analysis and water-soak data were collected. The effects of film selection, watt density and dwell time (number of bars) were studied.
Description: According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the pharmaceutical industry loses $32 billion annually to counterfeiting. While RFID is promising, a hole must be addressed-physical security. Readers detect the tag, not the product. As a result, RFID can disguise theft and counterfeiting.
This session addresses the physical security hole by outlining application possibilities of tamper-evident RFID technologies in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Description: Today as many packagers are being squeezed by price ceilings and increasing costs of materials in tight markets or limited growth markets, the hunt is on for savings. Fortunately, a savings far greater than any labor can give, is in front of most packagers. What is this? Why have packagers not heard about this? It fits nicely into Walmart’s sustainability guidelines for production facilities. It is still the greatest untapped cost savings around, but why have companies not made this area a priority? Why are a lot of companies’ average percent waste and rework greater than 10% and sometimes greater than 20%? How come North American high tech packaging companies have such high waste and rework? Are packaging companies flushing money down the drain? How come no data on waste and rework exist within the public forum or even internally? Some of the answers might be nice to hear, but what is more important is to come and see how your operation can yield up easy money. All you have to do is go out there and pick it up.
Description: This presentation will be helpful for those attendees interested in entering the rigid barrier packaging market. Shelf stable packages with two years of shelf life are very common and attainable with today's barrier technology. The presentation will cover the basic manufacturing processes available including preformed containers and form-fill and seal. Discussions will also center on material selection including the barriers EVOH and Saran.
Description: Rigid-plastic transport packaging-it is truly one of the most sustainable packages many industries will use. It can prove to be very beneficial to many different areas of a company as long as it is designed with all of those areas in mind. From the packaging machine, to the stretch wrapper to the delivery truck, all aspects of the company need to be considered for sustainable packaging to succeed in cutting waste and costs.
In addition, to reuse transport packaging properly, you have to manage it. What are the best practices for this? How are companies accomplishing this?
Description: Findings of the first U.S. corrugated industry Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) will be presented by The Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA), which commissioned the LCA, and Five Winds International, which conducted it in accordance with ISO 14040 series standards for LCAs. The scope of the study covers a "cradle-to-grave" life-cycle assessment that includes natural resources acquisition, manufacturing, conversion to a final product, use and end of life disposition. The assessment extends into the life cycle impact assessment and interpretation phases of the LCA in accordance with ISO 14044.
The presentation will include plans for using the results of the LCA to chart a path towards continual improvement for the industry as well as populating the U.S. LCI Database and MERGE tools.
Description: Circonix Technologies recently delivered a completely integrated solution to upgrade and modernize converting machinery. The equipment required a complete control and automation overhaul, as well as mechanical modifications. This session will concentrate on the drive and control aspects of the process.
Description: On-line gauging for real-time process measurement and control continues to gain importance. The demand for increased functionality and higher quality in multi-layer films and coated web products is rising, resulting in more complex and costly structures. Layers and coatings are getting thinner, production runs are shorter and line speeds are increasing. To meet this demand and remain competitive requires an efficient process able to run quality product, within specification, from start to finish of a run. This cannot be accomplished with periodic lab sampling, since a defect caught in the lab may be hours old! Add requirements for proof of compliance, the ability to conduct effective product development and real-time process troubleshooting, then an on-line gauging system becomes a tool in this effort. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the applicable gauging sensor technologies and coating measurement techniques.
Description: This session will provide an in depth look at the use of UV coatings and UV processors in all realms of the converting industry. Highlights include a look at installations currently utilizing UV in the production of multiwall bags, flexible film packaging, preprint linerboard, folding cartons and laminations. Segments on the use of UV coatings in food packaging as well as a cost comparison of the UV process versus other drying options will be discussed.
Description: Adhesion of inks and coatings on polymer substrates is an issue faced by all converters. This presentation describes flame treatment and why it provides better results than other methods. Troubleshooting and problems are all discussed.