Secondary Packaging

Frozen burger giant installs robotic top-load carton equipment

Electronic vision-guided pick-and-place system significantly improves overall carton packing efficiencies.

November 1, 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

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

Secondary Packaging

Cama triples the number of interpack visitors to its exhibitor booth

The newest machine showcased Cama’s development of Industry 4.0 drew a record-breaking attendance for the Italian Company at interpack 2017.

May 22, 2017

Cartoning

Bayer’s ‘Shamrock’ package cures design headaches

Cloverleaf-shaped strip-pack, customized machinery provide peel-open consumer convenience and market differentiation for fast-acting Bayer aspirin.

May 16, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Virtually endless case-packing options at Barilla

Barilla America expands its Ames, IA, plant to include gluten-free pasta-making, equipping the area with secondary packaging machinery that can meet a wide range of retail customer requirements.

May 14, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Spotted at interpack: Ultra-quiet, ergonomic cartoner

Taking operator activity into account, the secondary packaging machine produces little noise and low vibration, even at high speeds.

May 7, 2017

Cartoning

Coffee capsule lines extraordinaire

Close collaboration between Barrie House Coffee & Tea and a dedicated core of packaging machinery OEMs yielded four sophisticated lines each capable of running 300 single-serve coffee capsules/min.

April 26, 2017

Cartoning

Process Strategies for Serialization Success

From mobile serialization cells to customized equipment, serialization systems may be unique to each application, but there are common approaches to solving them. An expert discusses success stories, and what factors should influence your strategy.

April 17, 2017

Cartoning

Integrated line makes Howell’s ammo packaging bulletproof

Bulk feeder, vision inspection system, cartoner and laser printer speed throughput and address labor shortages in the company’s hometown.

April 4, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Nortech Packaging acquires Tishma Innovations

The addition of Tishma is intended to expand Nortech’s footprint in the growing food, pharmaceutical, confection, and contract packaging markets and advances its capabilities as an integrated solutions provider capable of providing full end of line solutions.

April 1, 2017

Cartoning

Packaging Machinery Helps Swiss Pharma Firm Produce Tibetan Meds

Blister packing, cartoning and case packing equipment from Romaco prove critical to PADMA’s automated packaging of herbal meds made and certified under internationally approved pharmaceutical guidelines.

March 30, 2017