Secondary Packaging

Petfood packager moves to plastic pallets

Switching from wood to plastic pallets results in significant cost savings and enhances the human and food safety initiatives of America’s oldest family-owned petfood company.

June 25, 2015

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Flexible packaging

Single-source line for pouch packaging

When the Ute Tribe’s agricultural enterprise launched a new line of corn meal for retail sale, having a single source for most of the packaging equipment proved helpful.

June 1, 2015

Secondary Packaging

See a complete end-of-line solution with robotic case packing

Increase your productivity with customized robotic case packers and palletizers from Premier Tech Chronos.

April 14, 2015

Secondary Packaging

See the stretch hooder: Stretch-All for load securing

STRETCH-ALL by Premier Tech is a universal applicable pallet load securing system based on stretch hood technology to secure a large range of stacked loads to pallets. The system guarantees optimum product safety by protecting it against humidity, UV and other weather conditions as well as against the danger of cargo shift during transport.

April 9, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Reliability comes to palletizing

Replacing a palletizing robot’s end-of-arm tool provides reliability on multiple levels.

April 8, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Krones acquires Schaefer GmbH

Krones AG acquires pallet handling company Schaefer Förderanlagen- und Maschinenbau GmbH

March 10, 2015

Flexible packaging

Watch PMMI’s 2014 Packaging Line of the Year in action

Learn how Big Heart Pet Brands implemented new packaging technologies and fetched PMMI’s prestigious award.

December 18, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Automated palletizer with concurrent stretch wrap

TopTier's Downstacker is a fully automated automatic palletizer with concurrent stretch wrapping, and this must-see video will show you up-close how it works, from case-turning rollers to forming rows, stacking patterns and wrapping pallets with extreme efficiency.

November 18, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Subzero palletizing robot works in the cold

Arctic palletizing robot from KUKA Robotics is designed for frozen food facilities and cold storage warehouses. Special modifications allow it to operate at temperatures down to -30 deg. C. It is available with payload capacities of 120, 180, and 240 kilograms.

November 13, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Compact and space saving – Pester monoblock case packer/palletizer

PEWO-form SLP2 Compact - monoblock case packer/palletizer with minimum space requirements of 90 sqft, with company-developed robots for flexible case packing and palletizing applications. Fast change-over time by means of 23 menu-controlled servo-axes and pallet change without machine downtime, unit has a full complement of safety features, ready for track & trace integration.

November 13, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Bulk depalletizer ideal for craft brewers

A-B-C Packaging Machine Corp. Central Regional Sales Manager Marc Antonio describes how the company's Model 108 depalletizer offers maximum bottle stability and smooth handling to craft brewers looking to automate their bulk bottle unloading.

November 13, 2014

Secondary Packaging

HL7200 palletizer combines safety with flexibility

Columbia's complete closed-loop palletizer HL7200 features Cat 3 compliant safety systems including dual channel safety interlocks, full height light curtains and upper-level guards. System flexibility allows quick pallet pattern changes and ability to handle different package types including shrink bundles, totes and unwrapped trays.

November 11, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Sequence products for a mixed load to be built on stretch wrapper

Intelligrated's mixed-load order fulfillment system sequences products to be built, by robot, on a stretch wrapper. The system cubes out the load to determine what the order will need to look like, and the robot then sequences the order as necessary.

November 2, 2014