Controls & Machine Components

PMMI strengthens relationship with OMAC

PMMI has announced that it will provide staff support to further the mission of OMAC, the Organization for Machine Automation and Control.

March 3, 2011

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Beverage

ARC Forum points to the need for packaging machinery standards

A scheduling conflict kept me from attending this year's ARC Forum in Orlando. But Keith Campbell—esteemed colleague, automation expert, and author of OnTheEdge blog—made it to the event, so I bring you his observations.

March 2, 2011

Closures

OFF THE SHELF: Great Lakes Cheese goes recloseable

Great Lakes Cheese of Hiram, OH, has a uniquely consumer-friendly and recloseable package concept for sliced cheese. Pat Reynolds visited their Plymouth, WI, plant recently and demonstrated how the pack opens and recloses.

March 1, 2011

Sustainability

U.K. bottler expands use of dry lubrication

Aston Manor Brewery, the UK's largest independent cider producer, has signed a four-year deal with a supplier of dry lubrication service for three bottling lines at Aston Manor's plant in Birmingham, England.

February 24, 2011

Flexible packaging

Toward improved heat-seal performance

If you've signed on to a solid approach, your packages are being sealed and delivered with good consistency.

February 15, 2011

Recycling

PET wine bottle takes off with Air Transat

Canadian supplier of fine wines Societe de Vin Internationale launches a 1-L PET barrier bottle for its wine brands that quickly takes flight with Air Transat airlines.

February 14, 2011

Flexibles

2011 FPA Silver Award Winners

The following award winners took home Silver Awards in the 2011 FPA Awards competition.

February 11, 2011

Beverage

MOCON announces 2011 free webinar series

MOCON, Inc. has announced the 2011 schedule of its free popular educational webinars.

February 11, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Getting personal

The commercial printing industry has a technology that could migrate to packaging and have a sizable impact. It’s called personalization, and it rests on a three-legged stool of variable printing, affinity marketing, and automated route sequencing.

February 10, 2011

Flexibles

Snack portion olives 'packed loose without the juice'

“The pop-able olive that is unstoppable!” That’s how Plant City, FL, specialty food importer and distributor Mario Camacho Foods describes its new snack-size olive portions packed in portable, single-serve, stand-up pouches.

February 10, 2011

Dairy

Featured discussions

February 10, 2011

Secondary Packaging

Multipacks say 'So long' to corrugated materials

Water bottler debuts first shrink-wrapped 24-pack using new staggered-bottle configuration that completely eliminates the need for a corrugated tray or pad.

February 9, 2011

Containers

A closed-loop RPET first

Ice River Springs buys baled PET in metro Toronto, cleans it, and turns it into 100% PCR RPET water bottles that it fills and sends to the marketplace.

February 9, 2011