From manger mishaps to druncle debacles, we present our favourite holiday First Person essays | Automatic Blister Packing Machine

Top Manufacturers profiled in the report are:  Nichrome Packaging Solutions, Ipk Packaging, Shivalaya Machinery, Viking Masek, Shanghai Shouda Packaging Machinery & Material, Yuanxu Packing, Tom Packing Machinery, Hualian Machinery Group, Tech-Long Packaging Machineries, Sotech Smarter Equipment, Nantong SNT Packing Machinery, Unique Packaging Systems

The second-biggest concern was the cost of accepting payment cards, including the swipe fees banks charge to process transactions, cited by 45 percent. While the survey found 49 percent of retailers have taken advantage of routing options required as part of a cap on debit card swipe fees passed by Congress in 2010, rising swipe fees for credit cards remain the subject of litigation between retailers and the card industry. Chargebacks of disputed purchases, which increased after implementation of EMV for some retailers, were the third-biggest concern, cited by 35 percent.

The SP Thermoformer portfolio comprises eight machines, the largest of which can handle web widths up to 620mm, indexes up to 250mm, and forming depths up to 100mm. The entire series is capable of handling variable web widths on a single machine. Dozens are currently in operation around the world, many with repeat customers.

I did find some people earning close to the national median who had retired early or were hoping to quit or reduce their hours of paid work. Ilyas (not his real name), a 35-year-old lecturer in the north of England who earns about £30,000 a year, believes it is possible to plan for Fire on that income. He has a wife – Ilyas calls her the “queen of frugality” – and two children, but has already paid off his mortgage, is saving 60% of his income and plans to go part-time within the next four years. He hopes to use his semi-retirement to write fiction. A Muslim, he isn’t permitted to use interest-bearing bank accounts, which makes reaching this position even more remarkable.

The perfect packaging solution is greater than the sum of its parts. When designing your system, ensure you can harmoniously integrate the different equipment together before implementing your solutions. There are ways to improve efficiencies and reduce costs by considering ways to connect each part of your packaging line to one another for a more seamless process, reducing the amount of hands required to touch the product throughout production.

This raw-mango-flavored candy has a surprise in the middle: powdered spices that the maker calls the ‘‘masala bomb.’’ (In India, raw mangoes are often eaten with tangy spices.) Though the candies have been a big seller since they were introduced in 2015, even reportedly tying a sales record Coke set when it introduced Coke Zero to the Indian market, the treat might have a harder time in the United States. While the hard-candy exterior has a sweet flavor, the bomb has a sulfur taste that may be a bit too close to rotten eggs for the American palate.

I agreed with her. There's no better way to get into a story than being able to interact with it in some physical way. Here were all the season's big stars – the baby Christ, the angels, the shepherds, Joseph, Mary and the barnyard cast – built from durable, kid-friendly plastic.

Angelica Salado, senior analyst at Euromonitor International, commented, “companies sometimes wrongly believe that mature markets no longer offer opportunities for new players. However, coffee can present excellent opportunities for innovation in different channels, formats and claims, even in mature markets”.

Kubernetes allows businesses to do more with less by leveraging transferability and isolation through containers, enabling them to ship more features faster by simplifying application packaging and deployment. But businesses require tools to identify the root cause of performance issues in real time. If IT teams cannot clearly monitor Kubernetes performance and the correlation between this and business metrics, then the technical benefits that Kubernetes offers cannot be fully realised.

Underlining ACG's commitment towards the fight against counterfeit medicines will be an Experience Anti-counterfeit Zone- an interactive 'spot the fake' zone where customers will see a range of ACG's anti-counterfeit initiatives. The zone will have on display anti-counterfeit measures for capsules, tablets, blister packaging and final packaging document.write("<!--");if(isUserBanner=="free"&&(displayConBanner==1))document.write("-->");googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.defineOutOfPageSlot('/6516239/outofpage_1x1_desktop','div-gpt-ad-1490771277198-0').addService(googletag.pubads());googletag.pubads().enableSyncRendering();googletag.enableServices();});

“They’ve actually devoted resources to looking through their backlog, kind of cutting room floor, and rethinking these different materials with our machine in mind,” he said.

“The chip in an EMV card makes it very difficult to counterfeit the card, but it does nothing to show whether the person trying to use the card is the legitimate cardholder,” NRF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Stephanie Martz said. “If we want to stop card fraud, we need a better way of authenticating users and it should be one that’s affordable, easy and safe. Someday the answer might be biometrics or technology that has yet to be invented but, in the meantime, we know PIN can stop criminals dead in their tracks. With no signatures, no PIN and no biometrics, what we have right now is no authentication at all.”