Reads through plastic, reads omni-directionally, including high-powered illumination for accurate reading of variable height packages. Readers can be networked together and integrated into a variety of systems.
E-BOOK SPECIAL REPORT
45 Best Package Designs
Sign up to receive timely updates from our editors and download this e-book consisting of our editors' picks of most notable package designs.
Learn more about the Intl. Safe Transit Assn., its step-by-step process management standard for the design, testing, and qualification of responsible packaging that meets industry, consumer, and regulatory expectations.
The use of renewable molded fibers to create packaging and products continues to grow globally, fueled in part by both sustainability issues and advancing technological developments.
Shown at the AlliedFlex Technologies booth is the Mespack H-220 stand-up pouch machine that automatically applies a special top spout closure for products including baby foods and applesauce.
Enercon says improvements to its Super Seal Max induction cap sealer make this machine the "world’s fastest," with a 20% higher rate of performance. A new software-driven operating system, based on the company’s Super Seal Touch architecture, offers improved ease of use and response.
Reads through plastic, reads omni-directionally, including high-powered illumination for accurate reading of variable height packages. Readers can be networked together and integrated into a variety of systems.
Avery Dennison spokesperson Robin Bell demonstrates Fasson® Wash-off labels, suitable for both glass and PET bottles, providing label converters with a replacement for wet-glue product. Suitable for body and/or neck labeling of light and dark containers, as well as bottled water in glass and large containers in recyclable PET bottles.
TopTier's dual-infeed Robotier robotic palletizer with integrated, concurrent stretch wrapping for case, bag, and bundle palletizing; receives two distinct products from two different product lines, wrapping loads as they're built.
On the ShurSeal tape heads displayed by ShurTape, a 5-point wipe-down system means secure adhesion of tape to box as adhesive is driven firmly into the case.
Printpack produces plastic rollstock that can be fed through a unique Agami system that rolls and blows bottles up to 500 mL. Non-barrier for dairy, or barrier for hot fill or aseptic filling.
A specially designed skirt material on these vacuum pickup cups from Piab makes them uniquely suitable for picking and case packing flexible film bags of potato chips and other snacks.
Hapa, part of the Coesia group, was showing the Go-Flex, which is described as the lowest-cost UV flex printer on the market. It's especially suitable for coding variable information.
New Vivos Edible Delivery Systems from water-soluble film manufacturer of MonoSol have been formulated to create pre-portioned pouches of food ingredients that can be dissolved in hot or cold water. Targeted applications include convenient portion packs for retail sale, as well as ingredient delivery for the foodservice or food manufacturing areas.
Introduced with half the speed and half the cost of its predecessor the HydroForma f/f/s machine for water-soluble pouch packages, the HydroForma SP is Cloud Packaging’s small-platform machine, which still can package three to five times the pouches per minute of any competitive vertical-style machine.