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Off-the-Shelf Servo-Driven Benchtop Filling and Stoppering
At Healthcare Packaging EXPO Las Vegas 2021, groninger highlighted its LABWORX benchtop machine portfolio, comprising small-batch liquid modules with short lead times and quick turnaround.
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New Packaging Formats Affect Secondary Packaging Process
Package Design
The Sweet Taste of Packaging
Take Five
PACK EXPO Las Vegas: Day-Three New Technology and Innovations Findings
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BW Integrated Systems Highlights User-friendly, Vertical, Flexible, High-level Palletizer
Materials & containers
Football Stadium PET Bottles Transformed into Mr Muscle Packaging
SC Johnson partners with the Liverpool Football Club to transform half a million PET bottles into new packaging for its Mr Muscle household cleaning products in the U.K.
PELV 2021
All-Purpose Intelligent Robot Control System
MujinController manages any robotic application guiding the movement of robot arms via machine intelligence, a new category of artificial intelligence that automatically manages potential downtime scenarios through autonomous motion planning.
Package Design
E-Commerce Innovations: Biodegradable Mailing Bag and Reusable Food Delivery Containers
See two examples of innovative sustainable e-commerce packaging from ThePackHub’s October Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.
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Unique Blow-Fill-Seal Solution for In-House Blown PET Cups
Serac presented at PACK EXPO Las Vegas a Blow-Fill-Seal solution for yoghurts and desserts in PET/rPET jars. This solution, which combines an SBL linear blow-molding machine and a linear dosing machine, has been named CupBox.
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Sustainability
Cannabis Comes Of Age
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unPACKed Podcast: Revisit Cobots, Cannabis and More from PACK EXPO Las Vegas
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New Packaging Formats Affect Secondary Packaging Process
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Nuspark Highlights Customizable Quality of Vertical Rotary Cartoner
Design
Package Design
The Sweet Taste of Packaging
Package Design
Another Instructive Court Case, This One a Victory for Food Packagers
Supplier Submitted
Ranpak to Build Innovation Center in Connecticut
Package Design
E-Commerce Innovations: Biodegradable Mailing Bag and Reusable Food Delivery Containers
Issues
Sustainability
Cannabis Comes Of Age
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unPACKed Podcast: Revisit Cobots, Cannabis and More from PACK EXPO Las Vegas
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New Packaging Formats Affect Secondary Packaging Process
Take Five
PACK EXPO Las Vegas: Day-Three New Technology and Innovations Findings
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Take Five
PACK EXPO Las Vegas: Day-Three New Technology and Innovations Findings
PELV 2021
All-Purpose Intelligent Robot Control System
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Unique Blow-Fill-Seal Solution for In-House Blown PET Cups
Workforce
Women, E-comm, and Collaborative Tech Shape a New Way of Working
Coding, printing & labeling
Flexibility Key to Modular P-S Labeleing Application System
Workforce
Women, E-comm, and Collaborative Tech Shape a New Way of Working
An expert panel at the Packaging & Processing Women’s Leadership Network discussed women and remote work, as well as solutions for adapting to pandemic-era consumer buying trends. Read, watch, or listen to the conversation.
Materials & containers
Mars’s Switch to Barrier Coating Cuts 18 T-Rexes worth of PE
Mars removes the black polyethylene film from the inside of its iconic Maltesers candy box, replacing it with a recyclable, dispersion-coated barrier board that will reduce its use of plastic by 82 metric tons.
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Handled with care: Your cookies and crackers deserve the best!
They are a delight around the world – and a challenge for manufacturers everywhere. The guide provides an analysis of the market trends and the corresponding requirements focusing on handling and infeed technology.
PELV 2021
Strapping Machines Handle Washdown Environments
The SGP’s TüV certified stainless steel versions with IP 56 rating accommodate cleaning and disinfecting, while operating at speeds up to 65 plastic straps/min.
Coding, printing & labeling
Accraply Highlights Upgrades on Trine Modular Labeling Station
Machine has improved throughput, changeovers, and maintenance to enable significant process improvements with minimal line disruption for Trine labelers.
Coding, printing & labeling
Flexibility Key to Modular P-S Labeleing Application System
Based on the M2 label applicator and an innovative motion control system, MFlex is modular and flexible with configurations for applications such as top labeling, bottom labeling, top/bottom labeling, front & back labeling, wrap labeling, and more.
Sponsored
Handled with care: Your cookies and crackers deserve the best!
They are a delight around the world – and a challenge for manufacturers everywhere. The guide provides an analysis of the market trends and the corresponding requirements focusing on handling and infeed technology.
Package Design
Inks and IML Handle HPP for Guacamole Pack
Spanish producer of fruit- and vegetable-based juices and sauces Avomix selected shelf-life improving high-pressure processing (HPP) technology for its Fresh Mix product range, specifically its guacamole.
Controls & automation
Vacuum Technology Solves Palletizing Challenge
While palletizing corrugated cases is a regular automation application, doing so in a cold room that is regularly hosed with water to stay clean is especially challenging.
Sustainability
Reimagining Sustainable Packaging through Collaboration
Incorporating more sustainable options into CPG packaging is both a necessity and a challenge. Read about current initiatives to innovate new materials, improve recycling systems, and get closer to a circular economy.
Beverage
Top Five Trends in Spirits and Wine in 2021/2022
GlobalData predicts new consumer trends and consumption habits in spirits and wine resulting from supply chain disruptions, climate change issues, and a shift in consumer attitudes.
Controls & automation
Bringing Flexibility to Breakpack Production
Advanced controls let this maker of banding equipment bring a whole new level of quick-change flexibility to manufacturers delivering ‘breakpacks’ to their retailer customers.
Take Five
More Editor’s Picks from PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Day Two
Watch Packaging World’s Emeritus Editor Pat Reynolds and Content Director Jim Chrzan as they rattle off a handful of interesting, innovative, or trending findings from the floor of PACK EXPO Las Vegas last month.
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Cobot Bin Picking and Palletizing
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Omron demonstrated its vision-enabled TM cobot bin-picking system and its cobotic palletizing system.
Sustainability
Alternative for hard-to-recycle packaging waste
Carlos Ludlow Palafox, CEO of Enval Ltd. and the creator of a unique technology based on microwave-induced pyrolysis for flexible packaging including plastic laminates, shares his vision.
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Pregis Opens New Packaging Film Extrusion Facility
Sustainability figures prominently in both the new Andersen, S.C., building and the materials produced within it as part of Pregis’ 2021 $140 million capex investment in new production capabilities.
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Electromechanical Welding and Control Architecture for Packaging
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Emerson highlighted its GSX Welder with electromechanical actuation and DCX Generator architecture to control and monitor packaging machine processes.
Package Design
Getting Noticed: Holiday Pringles, Wine Pouches, and Tony's Chocolate
The importance of creating impactful and noticeable packaging continues to create a point of difference. See a few examples from ThePackHub’s October Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.
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High-Performance Packaging Machine Control
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Emerson showcased its high-performance packaging machine architecture to control multiple axes of motion and scale motion on the same PLC platform.
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Beckhoff Showcases XPlanar Updates
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Beckhoff highlighted is XPlanar materials handling system that uses levitating movers to transport materials for packaging, assembly or transfer.
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Beckhoff’s XTS with Track Management
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Beckhoff showcased the new track management capabilities of its eXtended Transport System (XTS) and the new stainless steel hygienic version.
PELV 2021
Fast-Changeover RRP Case Packer
A live, timed changeover demo illustrates the speed at which Delkor's LSP Series case packers can changeover between individually sized pouches in corrugated RRP cabrio cases, and larger club-store pouches in club-store corrugated trays.
