Secondary Packaging

Axon appoints Latin American sales, customer support manager

Axon promoted Jose Arroyo to Latin American sales and customer support manager to provide sales service activities for a growing customer base.

December 6, 2016

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Secondary Packaging

Polypack unveils three new machines at PACK EXPO

Polypack debuted its new all-in-one end-of-line system, glue-free wrapper for tapered cups, and a compact, high-speed pharma bundler machines during PACK EXPO.

November 8, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Duravant acquires ARPAC

Duravant increases product and service offerings in North America with Arpac acquisition and looks to further develop growing SupportPro footprint.

November 2, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Massman acquires EDL

The addition of EDL expands Massman’s extensive product offering and complements their existing product lines.

November 1, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Bonded Pac touts steam tunnel over traditional heat methods

Why Bonded Logistics’ contract packaging operation chose steam for flexible film and multipack applications.

June 15, 2016

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Modular shrink bundler

From Tekkra comes the Triad shrink bundler, an entry-level machine whose three modular infeeds make it unique among its peers.The modules roll up to the machine and bolt on quickly, and the machine's PLC recognizes which module is on and which activation points need to be turned on.

October 13, 2015

Secondary Packaging

New shrink packer handles a range of pack styles

The newest edition to Standard-Knapp's Tritium line, the 298 Tritium tray shrink packer with Robo-Wand wrapping module supports tray, pad, or unsupported pack styles in a single machine.

October 7, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Smallest pharma shrink wrapper in the world

According to Polypack, its Pharma 16 shrink packaging machine is the smallest in the world, at less than 8-ft long. Targeted at pharmaceutical packaging applications, the machine can handle 4-, 6-, or 8-pack round or square products at 20 cycles/min.

November 11, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Shrink wrapper offers 5-minute changeover

Compact shrink wrapper from Polypack is a versatile machine that can handle round, oval, or square bottles as well as cartons with minimal time required for changeover

May 19, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Multipacker boosts seafood company's productivity up to 75%

Chicken of the Sea installs new multipacker and two tray shrink packers that provide changeover versatility, operate at 95%-plus efficiency, and have resulted in a 20% reduction in manpower.

March 28, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Skin-tight seafood packaging

New tray system technology produces high-efficiency, high-barrier, high-visibility packaging for griller products.

January 16, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Nine tips for selecting multipacking and shrink-bundling equipment

In today’s multipacking and shrink-bundling environment, the need for flexibility and precisely repeatable changeovers is taking precedence.

October 22, 2013

Secondary Packaging

Combination shrink-wrapper/case-packer can take bottles and tubes from pucks

Patented pick and place system from Polypack can shrink-wrap hard-to-handle bottles and tubes, and use a gantry system to pack them into a case.

October 2, 2013