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2024 Technology Excellence Awards Winners Announced at PACK EXPO International

Packaging and Processing professionals vote for the best-in-class, never-before-seen innovations at this year’s largest industry show.

November 5, 2024

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PMMI Foundation Honors Six Outstanding Students with $5,000 PACK EXPO Scholarships

The PMMI Foundation awarded six from North American colleges and universities to support their academic pursuits and future careers in the packaging and processing industries.

November 5, 2024

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Flexible E-comm Line Matches RFID to Pick Sheet

Full e-comm packaging line shrink wraps product alongside invoicing, pick sheet, and RFID, before heat tunnel optimizes DIM weight and products are labeled and robotically palletized.

November 5, 2024

XPlanar Transport System

Demo shows one application of the Beckhoff XPlanar Transport System where pieces of produce are loaded into trays by an ABB collaborative robot assisted by a Cognex vision system.

November 5, 2024

HF/F/S Machine is Uniquely Compact

HDG Pouch Machine uses an 8-station rotary turret to fill the formed stand-up pouches. One-up filling was displayed, but the machine is available in 2-, 3-, and 4-up versions.

November 5, 2024

Personal Care CPG to Carton at 600 ppm with Robots, Linear Servo Track

Edgewell Personal Care's new IF monoblock system, built by OEM Cama, uses four robots to pick and place product, then close cartons carried on B&R Acopostrak linear track systems.

November 5, 2024

AI-Enabled Vision Camera Enables Faster Inspection

SICK is implementing AI into its Inspector830 vision camera, allowing for a five to 10 times faster detection process compared to the company's older hardware.

November 5, 2024

Heat and Control Cascade Water Recirculation Cuts Freshwater Consumption

Heat and Control's new Cascade Water Recirculation system removes silt and starch during the preparation process while using up to 75% less water than other methods.

November 5, 2024

Heatand Control

Device Stabilizer Designed for Injector Pen Labeling

Device stabilizer allows for gentle labeling of injector pens by absorbing force during labeling.

November 5, 2024

AI-Based Vision Inspection for Food Processing

Oxipital AI monitors food on the line for defects in real time, using AI modeling to create hundreds of millions of different virtual versions of that product to ensure accuracy.

November 5, 2024

Case/Tray Packing

Fast, Smart, Compact Case Packer Handles Warped Corrugated

Delkor’s patent-pending EVO delivers more payload, reach, and speed, enhanced by a patented corrugated warp correction technology.

November 5, 2024

First Fully Separable Cup Allows for Recycling

The K3 r100 is a separable cup made of plastic and paper that separates in the crushing process to go into different waste streams.

November 4, 2024

Greiner Packaging

Automatic Bagger Easily Switches from Poly to Paper

The Rollbag R3200XL from PAC Machinery can accommodate both curbside-recyclable paper bags and flexible film pouches in fulfillment operations with virtually no changeover.

November 4, 2024

Combo Checkweigher/Metal Detector Runs at 800 Packs/min

From Mettler-Toledo, the CM 33 Plus checkweigher and M31 metal detecting combination system saves space, at just 5-ft long, while performing two inspections in one.

November 4, 2024

X-ray System Suited for High-Care Food Production Plants

The new Icon X-ray is a fully integrated, super-hygienic X-ray inspection system equipped with internal view cameras and an integrated automatic reject device to optimize floor space.

November 4, 2024

Containers & Closures

3rd-Gen Induction Sealer Incudes Advanced Control

Enercon's New 3 Generation Super Seal Max cap sealer offers integrated support for set up, operation and troubleshooting along with recipe management and options for integrated cap inspection.

November 4, 2024

Yaskawa Robotic System Sorts with Machine Vision

Yaskawa's new Motoman NEXT robotic system uses AI vision to enable autonomous adaptivity in pick-and-place and sortation applications.

November 4, 2024

Quick Change in Timing Screws

Ways to increase efficiency and reduce time spent on changeover time was a main focus at Morrison’s booth. Quick and tool-less change of core plates lets even operators who are not highly skilled manage change of timing screws.

November 4, 2024