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Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Automation World

Controls & automation
Maximizing machine flexibility
Packaging demands for flexibility in lot runs and changeovers have prompted several advances from Festo and its partners.
November 8, 2016
As Flexibility Engineering demonstrated at PACK EXPO, the Anysize automatic positioning system accepts varied package sizes.
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Andrew Manly, AIPIA’s communications director
Package Design
After Pandemic-Related Innovation Pauses, Smart Packaging’s Back on Track
Andrew Manly of AIPIA, the Smart Packaging Association, catches us up with all things active & intelligent packaging. He gives us a valuable lens through which to view its recent and expected future growth on the back end (hopefully) of the pandemic.
Stahel demonstrates Zapvision at his booth at AIPIA. The system allows a smartphone to read an on-pack QR code at a distance. For a user with sight limitation, more information becomes available on the screen—in large text or with audio—as he or she moves closer to a product on the shelf.
Package Design
Scan from a Distance, Enlarge Product Information for the Blind
Berry’s closure for Coca-Cola is based on its patented CompactFlip hinge solution. It is the first to be used in conjunction with the new lightweight 26-mm GME30.40 neck, developed by the Cetie Single-Use Plastics Group.
Package Design
Coke Europe Adopts Tethered Closure, Follows EU Directive
Says Myro CEO Greg Laptevsky, 'A lot of people are referencing a ‘magic moment’ of turning tap water into body wash—all waste-free.”
Sustainability
Myro’s Body Wash Concentrate Creates a ‘Magic Moment’
Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
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