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Rychiger Canada Names New Financial Controller
Rychiger
Claudio Di Placido brings over 15 years of finance experience to Rychiger Canada.
December 18, 2025
Claudio Di Placido
Recycling
Charter Next Generation Expands MDO Capabilities with New 9-Layer and 5-Layer Lines
Charter Next Generation
Investment in flexible packaging technologies aims to increase capacity for recycle-ready, high-barrier solutions across dry goods, pet food, confections, and specialty markets.
December 18, 2025
Cng
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
IWK Packaging Systems, Inc.
Fairfield, NJ
Inspect/detect/checkweigh/x-ray
Easy-Access Reject Device for Gravity Inspection
Fortress Technology Inc.
Fortress Technology’s roll-out reject device for gravity metal detectors allows the reject valve to slide out on rails for full access during cleaning and maintenance, improving hygiene and reducing changeover time without compromising valve rigidity.
December 18, 2025
A roll-out valve reject system on Fortress gravity systems is much faster to sanitize.
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Hygienic, Pneumatic Soft Gripper
Festo Corporation
The Festo HPSX is made from food-grade, silicone-based material that securely handles delicate and irregularly shaped products at high speeds while meeting IP69K washdown and sanitary requirements.
December 18, 2025
The Festo HPSX adaptive gripper
Material handling
Automated Pie Shell Stacker
Raque Food Systems
Designed for high-demand production lines, Raque Food Systems’ Pie Shell Stacking System stacks pie shells in user-defined batches at speeds up to 120 containers per minute.
December 18, 2025
Raque Food Systems’ Pie Shell Stacking System
Bagging & Pouching
Jiffy Mix Modernizes Packaging With Flexible, Compact Cells
Chelsea Milling Co. found a way to replace 18 filling lines with brand new equipment with no interruption in meeting consumer demand and without laying off any of its valued employees.
December 17, 2025
Four of the five new packaging cells are dedicated to the 8.5-oz carton while one cell can do either 40-oz or 8.5-oz cartons.
PMMI News
PMMI Foundation Awards More Than $160,000 in 2025 Scholarships to Emerging Leaders in Packaging & Processing
The PMMI Foundation's scholarships support students across North America pursuing degrees in packaging, processing, engineering, automation, and related fields.
December 17, 2025
Pmmi Foundation
Robotics
Automation Aligns Around Standards, AI, and Real-World Use
An A3 webinar brings together industry leaders to explain why automation is becoming easier to deploy and harder to delay.
December 17, 2025
Said panelist Stu Shepherd during the webinar, “The ability to get started in automation is easier now than it’s ever been before. The ease of use and all this is such that you really don’t have to have PhDs and scholars of other types on your staff to operate these systems. The systems will run. You just have to get out there and deploy.”
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