Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Bagging hops goes automatic

This Yakima broker used to buy hops pellets and bag them by hand. Now the firm takes in baled hops, mills its own pellets, and then packages the pellets with a combination scale and bagger.

September 5, 2017

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Secondary Packaging

Latest packaging tech for coffee, tea capsules

Mitaca S.r.l., a coffee producer and marketer based just outside Milan, brings compression molding of PP coffee capsules in house and radically improves wrapping of tea capsules.

September 5, 2017

Cartoning

Craft beer can line leverages robotics

Depalletizing of empty cans, formation of pallet layers, and lifting of formed layers onto pallets are all done robotically. Elsewhere in the plant, another robot depalletizes reshippers.

September 5, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Growing wet wipes business automates case packing, palletizing

Growing by leaps and bounds, wet wipes manufacturer Rockline Industries adds robotic case packing and palletizing to reduce manual processes and their associated safety issues.

August 30, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case packing for a safer end-of-line environment

Indonesian dairy relieves its congested manual case-packing area by installing 11 robotic case packers that improve efficiency, create a safer work environment, and reduce labor costs.

August 29, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Swedish food producer sold on ‘cobots’

Collaborative robots at Atria Scandinavia work alongside operators to handle repetitive tasks, decreasing changeover time from six hours to 20 minutes and enabling new packaging applications.

August 28, 2017

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Nordic heritage, unique flavors are focus of new skyr cup

A new paperboard-plastic thermoform structure and redesigned label graphics differentiate Icelandic Provisions’ skyr product from yogurt and highlight its Nordic roots and ingredients.

August 26, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeler resolves bottleneck for Produlab Pharma

Dutch CMO meets growing global customer needs without its previous set-up and adjustment difficulties.

August 24, 2017

Containers

Bud Light kicks off football season with team-specific packaging

Continuing its annual tradition of creating specially designed NFL season packaging, Bud Light has introduced aluminum cans and bottles with designs that celebrate 28 NFL teams.

August 23, 2017

Containers

Bud Light kicks off football season with team-specific packaging

Continuing its annual tradition of creating specially designed NFL season packaging, Bud Light has introduced aluminum cans and bottles with designs that celebrate 28 NFL teams.

August 21, 2017

Sustainability

The recyclable capsule cup

Barrie House's capsule cups improve the taste of its coffee while helping the environment.

August 21, 2017

Containers

Refreshed label graphics conjure Mediterranean warmth

The Peloponnese brand of Greek and Mediterranean food specialties gets a new visual identity that puts its namesake—the Greek village of Peloponnese—front and center.

August 21, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Hershey’s new display-ready case reduces corrugated by 32%

Redesigning the display-ready case for its packaged chocolate products from a two-piece to a one-piece box helps move Hershey toward its goal of reducing its packaging material by 25 million pounds by 2025.

August 19, 2017