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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.

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.

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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.

Neither gas prices nor inflation, rising interest rates nor global conflict, will deter financially well-situated Americans from spending their way through the new Roaring 20s.

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.

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.

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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Wrap It. Strap It. Secure It.

While there has been an increased focus on automation investments across the supply chain – with an estimated $244 billion forecast in 2022 – an often-overlooked area is the importance of consumables of all types.

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.

Paul Kling Named Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Soft Robotics

Kling will lead all Soft Robotics' sales and marketing strategies globally.

Sarah Cordes (left) is the Clemson University Robert Testin Outstanding Senior in Packaging Science, and Harry Tsang (right) is the Clemson University nominee for the Packaging World Outstanding Senior in Packaging Science.

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.

Will Ford has joined the Formulated Solutions team as Vice President of Operations.

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.

Jason Santamaria Named CEO of ABX

Effective immediately, Santamaria will replace Larry Goldstein who will be retiring.

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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.

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Clearing Out the Notebook

After two years of all-virtual conferences and exceedingly rare travel, it seems (to me at least) like the dam has broken almost overnight.

Rose Graffin Appointed Chairman of the Board and Président Directeur Général of Serac Holding

Graffin was appointed to the position of Chairman of the Board & Président Directeur Général following the untimely passing of Andre JJ Graffin, who was the founder and Chairman of the Board for Serac Holding since its inception over 50 years ago.

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Marie Samuelsson Appointed CEO of Ecolean

Samuelsson will assume the CEO role on June 1, 2022 following Peter L Nilsson’s planned retirement after more than 15 years with the company.

Kelby Thayer Promoted to Manager of Operations for Distribution Testing for Smithers

Thayer will be responsible for overseeing client testing programs to ensure all expectations are being met and constantly reviewing capacity and capability needs for additions to the laboratory.

Tim Sheehan Promoted to Eriez-India Managing Director

Eriez® Vice President-International Jaisen Kohmuench announces Tim Sheehan will succeed Satish Shenoy as Eriez-India Managing Director after Shenoy’s retirement earlier this year.

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Brian Croke Promoted to VP Technology of Enercon Industries

In this new position, Croke will lead Enercon’s Engineering and Product Development Teams for web surface treating, induction cap sealing, and object surface treating product lines.

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Flexible Pouches Replace Rigid Containers at McDonald’s

Rigid containers for back-of-house condiment applications in McDonald’s foodservice settings were wasteful and bulky to store. So, the fast-food giant and its suppliers teamed up to invent a flexible packaging-based applicator solution.

Nicolas Ricard Appointed Managing Director of Serac Inc

Ricard’s appointment was effective on March 15, 2022. He had been working as Chief Sales Officer of Serac group since November 2020.

Aaron Jones Named President and CEO of Bastian Solutions

Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, promoted Aaron Jones from President to President and CEO effective April 1, 2022.

Cama North America Adds Carl Roeder and Amber Griggs to its Sales Force

Carl Roeder, Northwest Regional Sales Manager, and Amber Griggs, Southwest Regional Sales Manager will assist customers in their respective regions with case packing, cartoning, robotics, and sleeving applications.

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SOMIC Packaging Hires Ken Williams as Service and After Sales Manager

Williams will be responsible for all machine installations and managing the Service team that is being expanded, he reports to CEO Peter Fox.