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

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Secondary Packaging

Blueprint Automation hires Northwest regional sales manager

Nathan Lee will manage customers in the areas of tray and case packing, product conveyance, and accumulation systems as well as palletizing and stretch wrapping systems.

April 28, 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

Secondary Packaging

Langen becomes Molins Langen

Langen joins with Molins to form a single company, retaining the brand name, ethos, and heritage.

April 21, 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

Secondary Packaging

Schneider Packaging Equipment debuts New York training center

Schneider Packaging Equipment opens its new training center for existing and future Schneider partners.

March 28, 2017

Secondary Packaging

IDT Biologika Combines Thermoforming and Carton Packaging

By using a single machine for these two packaging functions, this German contract packager reduces space requirements while gaining productivity and flexibility.

March 27, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Freshpet automates with robotic chub loader

This on-trend pet food company removed labor from its packaging line and handled increased throughput thanks to a first-of-its kind case packing solution.

March 6, 2017

Conveying & accumulation

Stone scales craft beer beyond micro format

Known for variety, Stone had long required extreme flexibility in its equipment. But as the business scales up, an all-new line had them looking to strike a balance between agility and volume.

March 1, 2017

Cartoning

Devils Backbone keeps it local, familiar

This growing East Coast brewery has found value in responsive, local machine builders and vendors who are intimately familiar with their lines of bottling and canning equipment.

March 1, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Steady growth makes automation essential

Beers brewed by this Munster, IN, brewery just 60 miles from Chicago have won their fair share of accolades over the years. Now management is focused on expansion and automation.

March 1, 2017

Secondary Packaging

JLS Automation adds VP of operations and manufacturing

Craig Wolfe joins JLS Automation’s senior leadership team as the VP of Operations and Manufacturing.

February 23, 2017