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Joe Darrah

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Joe Darrah is an award-winning freelance journalist based in the Philadelphia region who covers a variety of topics, including healthcare and medical technology, across all multimedia. He has been published in more than 40 publications.

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The new line is fully capable of handling three very different container formats.
Case/Tray Packing
New Line Runs Party Drinks and Pickle Potions
Specialty Blends runs three different PET bottle formats on a new line that culminates in a tray packing/shrink bundling system featuring the first application of single-point lane adjustment.
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Digital Transformation
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Bio-based
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Labeling
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