Cartoning

JLS Offers Remote, Real-Time Service and Training

JLS View uses Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 technology and connects customers with support needs whether they are around the corner or the world from JLS technicians.

July 8, 2021

Case/tray packing: Page 20

Conveying & accumulation

ITW Hartness Launches HartnessCARE

ITW Hartness

ITW Hartness offers customers HartnessCARE, a new maintenance care package that encourages customers to take a proactive approach to servicing their equipment to decrease downtime and costs and extend life.

July 8, 2021

Cartoning

BluePrint Automation Acquires Jongerius Hanco B.V.

BluePrint Automation (BPA)

BluePrint Automation (BPA) Group acquired Jongerius Hanco B.V. located in Amersfoort, The Netherlands.

July 7, 2021

Robotics

Fanuc Announces Production of 750,000th Robot

FANUC America

The production of Faunc’s 750,000th industrial robot represents a record high point in the robotics industry.

July 6, 2021

Sustainability

Goslings Adopts Paperboard Wraparound Carton for Improved Appearance, Sustainability Profile, and Retail Function

This gusseted multipack format is less expensive than fully enclosed packs, while providing brand-endorsed billboard space, retailer-approved can retention, and consumer-favored sustainability bona fides. Co-packer Polar Beverages automated the process.

July 1, 2021

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Co-pack/Co-man Bets on Beverage Market Transformation

Wisconsin-based beverage co-packer Octopi positions itself to address a rapidly changing beverage market, as well as a shift from bottles to cans, with two canning lines, the newest of which will produce up to 1,200 cans/min in seven sizes.

June 17, 2021

Conveying & accumulation

K2 Kinetics Acquires Robotic Packaging Machinery, LLC

K2 Kinetics, LLC

RPM designs and manufactures case packers throughout the U.S. Founded in 2011 by Scott Thiede, the company has an established product line of 4 key models designed around functionality and efficiencies needed for a variety of customers.

June 7, 2021

Secondary Packaging

New Case Packer, Robotic Palletizer, Let Wisconsin Cheesemaker Efficiently Offer Multiple Output Options

With a new automated case packer and palletizer, Wisconsin Whey Protein’s cheesemaking operation can now offer its customers bulk cheese in barrels or in blocks.

June 1, 2021

Robotics

Robotic Case Packers Improve Output by 20%

German food producer Kühne realizes increased OEE for eight glass packaging formats through new case packers’ faster machine changeover and digital data gathering and networking capabilities.

May 19, 2021

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

ProSys Hires Acyr Borges as Division Managing Director

ProSys Fill

Acyr Borges was hired as Division Managing Director for ProSys Servo Filling Systems.

May 4, 2021

Conveying & accumulation

Intralox Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Intralox

Intralox celebrates 50 years of bringing conveyance solutions to food processors, manufacturers, and e-commerce companies with a year-long anniversary celebration.

April 15, 2021

Robotics

ABB’s GoFa Cobot Wins Red Dot Best of the Best Award

ABB Robotics

ABB’s GoFa cobot received the Red Dot Best of the Best design award in recognition of its unique design concept to make the new robot appealing and accessible to users.

April 13, 2021

Cartoning

Cama North America Expands Sales, Business Development Staff

Cama North America

Cama North America added Stuart Kenney as Regional Sales Manager for the Southeast region and hired Kim Magon-Haller as Business Development Manager.

April 6, 2021