Robotics

Survey: Automation and Robotics Makes Its Way to Secondary & End-of-Line

According to a Packaging World survey, of respondents who participate in automation and robotics, a combined 70% are looking to add secondary packaging or end-of-line capabilities. It stands to reason that primary was acquired first.

June 19, 2025

Case/tray packing

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Once Upon a Farm Automates Case Packing

How does improving case packing benefit a company? For Once Upon a Farm, upgrading their case packer allows for greater hourly throughput and greatly reduces the risk of human error.

June 10, 2025

Workforce

BluePrint Automation Hires Nick Szczechowski as North Central Regional Sales Manager

BluePrint Automation (BPA)

Szczechowski joins BPA to drive growth in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, while Hunter Schultheis takes over the northwest region.

May 6, 2025

Digital Printing

SupplyOne Bolsters Northwest Region, Adds Digital Printing with Acquisition of The BoxMaker

SupplyOne

The newest addition to the SupplyOne portfolio is a national expert in digital packaging production and distribution, including custom boxes, retail displays, and product labels.

May 1, 2025

Operational Excellence

JLS Celebrates 70 Years of Innovation in Industrial Automation

JLS Automation

JLS Automation has evolved from a manufacturers' representative firm to a specialist in hygienic robotic packaging systems for the food industry.

April 22, 2025

Robotics

Rain Supercharges Throughput with Palletization, Automation

Alongside a host of other recent packaging automation improvements, cobot palletization has helped Rain Pure Mountain Spring speed up packaging line operations while allowing for labor reallocation.

March 5, 2025

Case/Tray Packing

Once Upon a Farm Automates Case Packing for New Recycle-ready Pouches

This marketer of high-quality nutritious baby food and children’s snacks has found a way to improve case packing while also getting its toes wet in recycle-ready pouches.

February 28, 2025

Operational Excellence

Massman Companies Showcases Comprehensive Packaging Solutions at PACK EXPO Southeast

Massman Companies

Visit Booth 1911 to explore Massman's unscramblers, fillers, palletizers, case packers, cartoners, wrappers and more.

February 25, 2025

Beer

Market Garden Builds Long Runway for Growth into Tight Quarters

With a new rotary filler/rotary seamer at its heart, a nearly all-new packaging line is now humming along at 100 cans per minute. Future-proofing the line meant building in a lot more capacity than is needed—for now, at least.

February 21, 2025

Case erect/seal

Take Five Minutes to Learn About the Major Types of Case Packers

Do you ever wonder how products end up neatly packed into those corrugated shipping cases? Enhance your knowledge of case packing equipment in five minutes as Package This explores the many types of case packing equipment available.

February 10, 2025

Workforce

BluePrint Automation Appoints Bill Browne as Its Vice President of Sales and Marketing

BluePrint Automation (BPA)

Browne, who brings more than 25 years of experience to lead BPA's North American sales and marketing team, succeeds Rocco Fucetola, who will remain in a consultative role.

January 30, 2025

Sustainability

Syntegon Achieves SBTi Validation

Syntegon

Syntegon's climate targets, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions across its operations and value chain, have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative as consistent with the 1.5°C global warming limit.

January 27, 2025

Workforce

SOMIC Packaging Hires Dave Billingsley as Technical Operations Manager

SOMIC Packaging, Inc.

Experienced operations leader brings 35 years of expertise to drive growth and enhance production at the expanding packaging equipment manufacturer.

January 13, 2025