Palletizing/depalletizing

The Massman Companies Announces Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Mark Suchy was promoted to the new position of Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for The Massman Companies.

April 20, 2021

Case erect/seal: Page 10

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Hartz Mountain liquid filling line upgrade features unscrambling through case packing

From unscrambling straight through to case packing, this versatile new line features filling and capping out of Italy and a small-footprint case packer from Germany for a variety of pet shampoo SKUs.

March 20, 2021

Shrink wrapping

Lantech Wins 3M 2020 Supplier of the Year Award

Lantech

Lantech won the 2020 3M Supplier of the Year Award in recognition of the company’s contribution to improving 3M’s competitiveness.

February 18, 2021

Case erect/seal

WestRock Earns Top Marks in HRC’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index

Smurfit Westrock

WestRock earned 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s annual assessment of LGBTQ workplace equality.

February 8, 2021

Adhesives/tape

Mark Ewing, Shurtape, Passes Away

Shurtape Technologies

Mark Ewing, Packaging Sales Professional at Shurtape, passed away on January 19, 2021.

January 26, 2021

Case erect/seal

WestRock Announces Chief Marketing Officer

Smurfit Westrock

Margaret Herndon joined WestRock as Chief Marketing Officer.

December 4, 2020

Secondary Packaging

RSC Case Erecting and DRC Case Forming in One Machine

Fallas combines the features of its case erector for pre-formed, pre-glued cases with its plunge-style case former for flat blanks to enable RSCs, Display Ready Cases, beer trays, and other case/tray styles to be created on one machine.

November 12, 2020

Case erect/seal

ACE Carton Former Debuts

The Kliklok ACE (Advanced Carton Erector) topload carton former made its North American debut at PACK EXPO Connects 2020.

November 12, 2020

Secondary Packaging

Entry-Level Case Erector Offers Efficient Alternative to Manual

The ERX-15 is designed to keep production and maintenance efforts at a minimum while providing fast, efficient case erecting, making the ERX-15 an ideal alternative to manual case forming.

November 9, 2020

Cartoning

Jon Ott, Syntegon, Passes Away

Syntegon

Jonathan “Jon” Otto passed away on September 22. He was with Bosch Packaging, now Syntegon, for 23 years in sales, engineering, and project development.

October 12, 2020

Secondary Packaging

Smooth New Case Packing at Fisher Nuts

Secondary packaging on this new line includes the latest in case erecting, loading, and closing. The machines also accept three very different case styles all formed from one flat blank.

September 29, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Two-phase Upgrade at Ferrara Candy

After four scale/bagger systems produced welcome results on primary packaging efficiency, some impressively versatile and compact case packers were added to the mix.

September 24, 2020

Robotics

The Massman Companies Launches New Website

Massman Automation, a Massman Company

The new website describes the capabilities of the multiple companies that make up The Massman Companies.

September 1, 2020