Workforce

Duravant Appoints Dean Ekkaia as Director of Product Management for Optical Sorting

In this role Dean Ekkaia will manage global activities that support development and sales of advanced sorting technologies that help food processors and packers optimize product quality.

July 30, 2025

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

Filling, Capping & Closing

Anniversary for KHS Hamburg: 50 Years of Pioneering Achievement

The KHS production site in Hamburg, Germany, known for developing innovations like the InnoPET Blomax stretch blow molder and Plasmax barrier technology, celebrates its 50th anniversary.

July 24, 2025

Workforce

Engage Technologies Appoints Durell Kvasny as Packaging District Sales Manager - Northeast

Engage Technologies Corporation

Kvasny will focus on collaborating with distributors to expand sales and enhance brand recognition for Eastey and American Film & Machinery's packaging solutions.

April 21, 2025

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

What is Multipacking and How Do Brands Do It?

Learn about multipacking machines, including tray formers, shrink bundlers, sleever machines, carrier applicators, and banding equipment, in less than three minutes.

March 26, 2025

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

Palletizers and Depalletizers in Focus

How do boxes of our favorite products get loaded on pallets? And what exactly does a depalletizer do? In this quick video, you will find out.

February 26, 2025

Beer

How Craft Brewers Are Thriving in a Plateauing Market

The craft brew boom is plateauing at long last. But according to Bart Watson, president and CEO of the Brewer's Association, savvy brewers are finding ways to thrive. Stand-out packaging design and aptitude with packaging automation are proven strategies.

February 25, 2025

Wrapping

Polypack Brings Shrink-Wrap and Corrugated Solutions to PACK EXPO International 2024

Polypack Inc.

From compact machines to sustainable materials, Polypack will display its packaging solutions for a wide range of products in Booth S-2147.

October 14, 2024

Filling, Capping & Closing

Cristalia Implements PET Bottle with Integral Handle

This bottled water producer says it differentiated itself on the shelf, improved its appearance, added supply chain-friendly robustness, and upgraded its sustainability profile, all without sacrificing the integral handle consumers love.

October 4, 2024

Multipacking

Timing Screws are Key to Blue Bell's Multipacking

From mass conveying to single-filing to stacking to a short ride down an elevator and finally to controlled indexing of six-high stacks into a sleever, this system is a wrap for Blue Bell.

September 27, 2024

Robotics

AI-based RaaS Packaging Handles CPG Exporter's High-Changeover

At PACK EXPO, LuLu Group company Y International discovered and put to good use an AI-based robotic secondary packaging offering that's uniquely able to handle the ultra-high changeover and throughput of a high-mix, high-volume CPG export operation.

July 11, 2024

Wrapping

Texwrap Names Western Regional Sales Manager

Texwrap Packaging Systems

Tracey Fikes brings 20 years of packaging experience to new role at Texwrap.

July 9, 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

Multipacking

EDL Breaks Ground on New Facility in Wisconsin

EDL Packaging, a Massman Company

EDL Packaging, a Massman Company, celebrates groundbreaking of 45,000-square-foot facility in DePere focused on employee wellness and custom automation equipment.

May 28, 2024