Filling, Capping & Closing

Mary Kay Hits the Sweet Spot on Speed with Mascara Packaging Line

To boost mascara and other tube production at Mary Kay’s Lewisville, Texas facility, it turned out that intermediate speeds and intermittent motion were the right mix of speed, sophistication, and throughput.

July 26, 2024

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Case/Tray Packing

Sugar Producer Emphasizes Flexibility in End-of-Line Solution

British Sugar replaces a 38-year-old end-of-line system with two tray packers and seven automatic palletizers with robotic layer preparation to handle a wide array of product formats and sizes.

July 25, 2024

Cartoning

WestRock & Smurfit Kappa Complete Merger as Smurfit WestRock

Smurfit Westrock now operates in 40 countries with over 100,000 employees working across 500+ packaging converting operations and 63 paper mills.

July 8, 2024

Thermoform/fill/seal

Centralized Vacuum Drives Tortilla Pick-and-Place, MAP Packaging

A central vacuum system designed for ten packaging machines helps Paulig Belgium save more than $21,000 per year on energy and maintenance costs.

June 26, 2024

Case/Tray Packing

Nuspark Rebrands as RYCHIGER

Rychiger

New brand combines Nuspark's expertise with Rychiger's heritage, offering comprehensive packaging solutions—and help with pronunciation.

May 21, 2024

Case/Tray Packing

ESS Technologies Announces $1.6 Million Expansion

ESS Technologies, Inc.

Pacteon subsidiary ESS Technologies will consolidate its current facilities into one new 40,000-square-foot facility in Montgomery County, Virginia, to expand production capacity.

May 20, 2024

PMMI News

Chris Calabrese of Fallas Automation Has Passed

Fallas Automation Inc.

Please join us in celebrating and memorializing the life of Chris Calabrese of Fallas Automation, who touched so many lives.

May 14, 2024

Cartoning

ProMach Launches Pet Care Solutions Group for Providing Dedicated Processing & Packaging Solutions to the Pet Care Industry

ProMach

New Group Offers Integrated Systems, Filling, and Processing Solutions for Optimal Pet Food Production (Booth #1106, Petfood Forum)

April 3, 2024

Home

Versatile, Patented Tray & Case Former Handles Warped Corrugated

Delkor Systems

Delkor’s new Trayfecta X Series former uses a 5-axis servo control to produce retail-ready packages, stackable club trays, and standard shippers with a simple 3-min changeover.

March 19, 2024

Case/Tray Packing

Gentle Case Packing Cures Broken Bottle Blues

The ascendancy of contract packaging means that once-neglected bottling lines are coming back strong. Here’s how Yards Brewing switched drop pack operations to pick and place, reducing scrap to the minimum, both for its own and its contract customers.

March 8, 2024

Secondary Packaging

Hardy Beverages Selects SOMIC’s Automated Packaging System for Growth Phase

SOMIC Packaging, Inc.

Carolyn Hardy's Hardy Beverages implements SOMIC case packer to meet ambitious sales goals for its hydrogen-infused water products.

March 5, 2024

Robotics

Senator Amy Klobuchar Visits Delkor Systems

Delkor Systems

Senator Klobuchar tours Delkor's new facility — alongside PMMI Chair Patty Andersen — and discusses resources available for manufacturers to expand export opportunities.

March 1, 2024

Secondary Packaging

Cama North America Adds Carlos Yat to Sales Team

Cama North America

Yat's position as Sales Director, Central America, will include the territories of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico.

March 4, 2024