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Partnerships: One Path to Training to Ease Talent Shortages
Pick your industry. Some long-timers are realizing that the next generation of expertise their teams require isn’t being groomed as they need it.
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Jeffrey Prosinski Appointed to Michelman Board of Directors
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Philipp Lenz Promoted to Technical Service Coordinator for SOMIC Packaging
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Co-packer Provides Opportunity for Adults with Disabilities
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Pactiv Evergreen Adds Personnel to its Filling Equipment Div.
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Rudolf Hausladen Named CEO of the Beumer Group
Rudolf Hausladen was named CEO of family-owned Beumer Group, effective today. He succeeds Dr. Christoph Beumer who has led the group of companies as CEO and Managing Partner since 2000.
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Jones Family of Companies Welcomes Scott Butler as COO
As it continues to move forward to grow and improve its operations while strengthening its position as a nonwoven manufacturing leader, the Jones Family of Companies re-hired Scott Butler as Chief Operating Officer.
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Rob Mogren Joins UltraSource LLC as Chief Financial Officer
Mogren comes to UltraSource with significant meat and food industry experience and financial expertise.
Business intelligence
Great Resignation Driving Employee Poaching
It’s a buyer’s market for job seekers as 81,000 left manufacturing from Aug. 2020 through Aug. 2021. Manufacturers are climbing over each other to poach workers to meet increases in production.
Workforce
unPACKed with OEM Podcast: Femininity in Manufacturing
Listen as Stephanie Neil outlines the challenges for women in manufacturing with “Steel Toes and Stilettos” authors Kathy Miller and Shannon Karels.
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Economist: Improving Supply Chain, Easing Demand, Let Packaging Machine OEMs Catch Up
ITR economists forecast a soft landing—not a recession—in coming months as consumers ease out of the pandemic and the revved-up stimulus-era economy fades. This will allow the supply chain to recalibrate and packaging machine OEMs to catch up on orders.
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Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.
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Chris Frank Named Vice President, Operations for BW Flexible Systems
As a member of BW Flexible Systems’ executive leadership team, Frank will direct leadership for the engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and field service teams across the company’s global locations.
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Mars’s Allison Lin Champions Women in Packaging
Mars, Inc. Global VP of Packaging Sustainability Allison Lin shares her journey in the packaging industry, providing advice to other women seeking a career in the field, and shares Mars’s efforts to enhance inclusiveness in the workforce.
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TricorBraun Appoints Senior Leadership Roles
TricorBraun named Scott Beamer Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. He succeeds Declan McCarthy, who has been appointed President, TricorBraun Europe. Both report to President and CEO Court Carruthers.
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Women Drive Innovations in Sustainable Packaging, Digital Printing
A recent issue of Packaging World magazine covers sustainable packaging innovations from Mars, Aveda, and Brita Water and new direct-to-shape digital can printing—all led by women.
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Sergio Carrillo Named Director of Sales for Material Transfer & Storage
In this role, Carrillo will be responsible for sales team leadership, strategic business planning and process oversite, and new market identification and development.
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LIVE from the ELC: CPGs Lean on OEMs to Help Navigate Sustainability, Workforce
A panel of packaging pros from Pepsi, Colgate, and ACH were asked how they’re tackling today’s challenges. Topping the list was earlier and more robust OEM participation, both in new sustainability projects and in selecting automation to replace labor.
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LIVE from ELC: The Millennial Mindset on Money, Career, Communication, and Benefits
Generational researcher Jason Dorsey explains the culture shift happening as Millennials move into management roles.
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Formulated Solutions Names Michelle Kiernan VP, Supply Chain/Customer Service
In her new role, Kiernan’s core focus is optimizing the process flow from order entry to delivery while ensuring complete satisfaction for Formulated Solutions’ brand partners.
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Paul Kling Named Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Soft Robotics
Kling will lead all Soft Robotics' sales and marketing strategies globally.
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Clemson Announces 2022 Outstanding Packaging Science Senior Award Winners
From Clemson University comes news about two Spring 2022 awards. Sarah Cordes was named the Robert Testin Outstanding Packaging Science Senior Award winner, and Harry Tsang was the Packaging World Outstanding Packaging Science Senior nominee.
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Formulated Solutions Appoints William Ford as Vice President of Operations
As Vice President of Operations, Will’s core focus is optimizing the performance of the Formulated Solutions Compounding and Filling Value Streams.
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Mariano Gonzalez Named Director of Corporate Strategy for Smart Plastic
In his role, Gonzalez will help align the strategic vision across all fronts of the business, develop and institute a long-term strategic plan along with its shorter-term milestones, and design a methodology to prioritize growth opportunities.
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Jason Santamaria Named CEO of ABX
Effective immediately, Santamaria will replace Larry Goldstein who will be retiring.
Workforce
Digital Transformation of the Industrial Workforce
The tools that help Pretium Packaging, Covestro, and J.M. Smucker Company tap into and transfer tribal knowledge on the factory floor.
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Jessica Zasadni Named Director of Human Resources for JLS Automation
In line with JLS’ goal of making the world a better place, as Director of HR, Zasadni is tasked with further strengthening the company's culture in order to continue to make it a great place to work.
