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Robotics
Robots’ Hygienic Features, Precision Spur Pharmaceutical Applications
A number of new robotic technologies meet the pharma industry’s need for greater automation, offering solutions for capping, pick-and-place, and other processes.
August 3, 2022
Epson Robots new GX Series of SCARA robots have been designed for tasks such as assembly, pick-and-place, and intricate small-parts handling processes.
Workforce
IoPP Salary Survey Respondents Starting to Seek Greener Pastures
The 2022 IoPP Salary Survey reflects employees that are more confident about their prospects than they were at the outset of the pandemic, thus less risk averse and open to changing jobs. Employers have to pay more to retain already scarce labor.
August 1, 2022
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Robotics
Robots Reduce Labor, Enhance Product Safety in Primary Food Packaging
OEMs introduce new delta robots engineered to meet IP69K ratings and with enhanced vision systems and end-of-arm tools to handle pick-and-place functions in food packaging applications.
August 1, 2022
The Harrier Bacon Draft Loading System from JLS Automation loads drafts of bacon into thermoform packaging.
Sustainability
Procter & Gamble, Kraft, and Nestlé Improve Recycling Practices
ThePackHub
See a few examples of major companies' recycling improvements from ThePackHub’s July Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.
July 31, 2022
Nestlé's Purina mono-material pet food pouches
Sustainable Packaging
Giant Food and Loop Partner for D.C. Metro Launch
Giant Food has partnered with Loop to bring the company’s circular reuse platform to the D.C. metro area in fall 2022.
July 29, 2022
Loop Logo
Sustainability
Most Packagers Swapped Pack Source Due to Market Issues
Current market challenges have brought on major changes and innovations in the packaging industry, an RRD survey said. 62% moved toward more diversification of suppliers.
July 28, 2022
Medicine Bottles
Flexible packaging
Coffee Brands Perk Up Packaging
Three brands—Oakland Coffee Works, Dilworth Coffee, and Compound Foods—embrace storytelling in their package design to differentiate their products in the competitive coffee market.
July 28, 2022
Oakland Coffee worked with independent artists, including concert photographers, graphic designers, and studio artists, with each packaging design showcasing a different designer or artist collaboration.
Sustainable Packaging
New MAP Tray for Pasta Uses 91% Less Plastic than Clamshell
Grocery chain New Seasons Market moves to a MAP package made from a recyclable paper tray with film liner for its fresh pasta that increases shelf life and eliminates 120,000 plastic packs per year.
July 27, 2022
The PaperSeal tray is constructed of FSC-certified fibers and is made from a flat, precut paperboard formed on a G. Mondini machine that also applies a thin barrier-film layer in one step.
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Companies Add Counterfeit Protection and Security Through Package Innovation
ThePackHub
See a few examples of counterfeit protection innovations from ThePackHub’s July Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.
July 26, 2022
Gerresheimer's permanent medicinal product codes
Sustainable Packaging
Plant-Based Fiber Tray for Gillette Razor is Green
New razor product for P&G brand Gillette is packed in a recyclable, plant-based inner tray that is colored a neon green.
July 25, 2022
The tray is made from bamboo and bagasse, which were chosen because the materials are local to the facility in Asia where the packaging is being manufactured.
Digital Transformation
Cloud-Based Software Modernizes Cleaning System Reporting
Sani-Matic worked with Rockwell Automation and PTC to develop a SaaS offering that replaces largely manual, paper-based data collection processes.
July 25, 2022
Cloud Based Software
Coding/marking
UDI Implementation Highlights Global Challenges
Q&A: At times, the hardest parts of UDI implementation are not about data matrices and linear barcodes at all. Jay Crowley talks global databases, portfolio management, and workforce issues.
July 25, 2022
Some manufacturers continue to use proprietary barcodes for various purposes that existed before UDI along with a UDI barcode. This can confuse downstream users. [Getty]
Contract Packaging
Battling Volatility
Tips on managing a company post-COVID.
July 21, 2022
Robby Speaking Headshot 2019
Contract Packaging
New Programs on the Rise
The CPA experiences great success at events and will have new programs available through strategic partnerships.
July 21, 2022
Rob Reinders, CPA president
Contract Packaging
CPA Success Blooms at Events, Scholarships Open for Applicants
July 21, 2022
CPA is thriving at events.
Contract Packaging
Get Ready to Contribute
Your expertise can help fellow contract manufacturers and packagers as well as the industry as a whole.
July 21, 2022
Melissa Griffen, Editor of CONTRACT Manufacturing and Packaging magazine.
Contract Packaging
Assisting CPGs Through Warehousing Services
GreenSeed Contract Packaging shows one way co-packers can ease supply chain burdens for CPGs, along with automation.
July 21, 2022
As supply chain disruptions continue, CPGs need to rely on their partners to navigate these challenges.
Sustainable Packaging
P&G uses Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Packaging Design
Victoria Jung, Packaging Technology Leader for P&G’s Surface Care Portfolio, explains how the company uses LCA to guide its packaging design, using Swiffer, Mr. Clean, and Dawn as examples.
July 20, 2022
Victoria Jung, Packaging Technology Leader for P&G’s Surface Care Portfolio
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