Major international chocolate manufacturers are increasingly using sophisticated packaging concepts to create strong brand images for their products. Recently Kraft Foods, the world's second biggest chocolate manufacturer, transformed its Aladdin Gold range into an exclusive brand through the introduction of a new packaging concept. Stora Enso worked closely with the company in its role as packaging material supplier. 

Higher performance. Reduced space requirement. New wider tubes and two new types of fin have been developed by Setrab AB, and are now being introduced onto the world market. This new type of cooler will offer considerable opportunities for manufacturers needing coolers for excavators, tractors, agricultural machinery and a large number of stationary applications within the processing, power supply, engineering and other industries.

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With the aid of air suspension and specially designed electronics, buses and other passenger transport vehicles can be adapted to the requirements for vertical adjustment in accordance with the new EU directive (2001/85/EC). The Swedish development company Airlink reports that this can now be achieved in a simpler, safer and more efficient manner than has previously been possible.

Viewpoint represents a first attempt, in a widely-available document for a general audience, to discuss the issues, controversies and complexities of the question of the safety of drugs.

The established plastic CD container used by music business has got a major challenger. The Swiss company PAWI Verpackungen has introduced a packaging solution called DataPac. Made from board, it is designed for CDs and DVDs used in the software and music industries. Lower weight and good printing surface are reported to be the product´s main properties. In Europe, for example, AOL and BlueWin (Swisscom) have already adopted this packaging innovation. The cases are manufactured using Stora Enso's Performa and Ensogloss board.

The Inside Story of Drug Safety for the General and Specialist Reader: Viewpoint, Part 1 - Watching for safer medicines

To be exhibited at the Hanover Fair 2002, 15-20 AprilHall: 017Stand: A53A "seeing" robot with a 3D vision system shall make it possible to automate picking, loading, and removing components directly from pallets for machine processing. It shall also be able to replace space-consuming and expensive portal robots, which require that the operator place the components on pallets and fixtures. The concept has been developed by Svensk Industriautomation and it shall make production more effective and less expensive by reducing adjustment time and eliminating operator time. The robot, called PalletPicker, orients itself using an optic sensor that measures the pallets' surfaces in three dimensions and therefore requires no programming.