Conveying & accumulation

Einar Einarsson Appointed President of Marlen International

Einarsson will be responsible for leading strategies that bring Marlen’s food processing equipment and world class service to food processors around the world. Marlen International is a member of the Duravant family of operating companies.

January 25, 2023

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Cartoning

Shuttleworth Completes Expansion of Current Manufacturing Facility

Shuttleworth

Shuttleworth recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completion of a 57,000+ sq ft expansion to its current manufacturing facility.

December 21, 2022

Flexible packaging

Atlantic Packaging Opens Nevada Facility

Atlantic Packaging

The new 34,000 sq ft facility will enable Atlantic Packaging to further support West Coast customers as well as its continued transition to sustainable packaging.

November 8, 2022

Home

Signode to Present Automation and Packaging Solutions at PACK EXPO International

Signode

See it at PACK EXPO International, Booths S-3742/N-6015! Signode will feature its automated packaging equipment, tools, consumables, and warehouse automation solutions.

October 19, 2022

Home

Orion to Showcase Pallet Wrapping Technologies at PACK EXPO International

Orion Packaging Systems

See it at PACK EXPO International, Booth N-5646! Orion Packaging Systems, a ProMach brand, will displaying its stretch and pallet wrapping solutions, including its S-Carriage InstaThread pre-stretch film carriage and LoPro Drag chain conveyor.

August 17, 2022

Robotics

Michael Odom Appointed Chief Executive Officer for Pacteon Group

Pacteon Group

Odom will lead corporate strategy and overall operations of the company (including Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc., Phoenix Wrappers Corp., and ESS Technologies, Inc.) with a focus towards continued growth through strategic acquisitions.

July 14, 2022

Secondary Packaging

New Stretch Wrapper for Closet Works Shuts the Door on Freight Damage

A new portable stretch wrapper with roping device helps custom closet company Closet Works reduce damaged shipments from one per week to one or less a month.

June 27, 2022

Shrink wrapping

Garrido Printing Equipment Opens Factory Training Center

Garrido USA

Garrido Printing Equipment, Inc. converted one of its warehouses into a FAT center where distributors and clients could send their technicians to get trained on the Garrido line of equipment as well as perform machinery testing prior to shipment.

June 14, 2022

Workforce

Rudolf Hausladen Named CEO of the Beumer Group

BEUMER Group

Rudolf Hausladen was named CEO of family-owned Beumer Group, effective today. He succeeds Dr. Christoph Beumer who has led the group of companies as CEO and Managing Partner since 2000.

June 1, 2022

Conveying & accumulation

Columbia PSI, LLC Acquires Control Design and Manufacturing

Columbia Machine, Inc.

Columbia continues to invest and grow its Denver operations with this acquisition. CD&M will become part of Columbia PSI, LLC.

April 25, 2022

Secondary Packaging

Automation and Flexibility in EOL Equipment Needed for Expanding SKUs

As the trend of more variety, more sizes, more choices, and ultimately more SKUs increases, end of line machinery is keeping up by including more robots, cobots, and modularity.

February 24, 2022

Palletizing/depalletizing

Orion to Demonstrate Updated Features on its Pallet Wrapping System at PACK EXPO East

Orion Packaging Systems

Visit Orion Packaging Systems, a ProMach brand, in Booth 2214 to see how the updated features on its Flex LPA performs entire wrap cycle without operator handling film at beginning or end of cycle.

February 18, 2022

Secondary Packaging

Future Looks Bright for End of Line Equipment Market

Four trends will affect continued growth on EOL machinery through 2026, with the food and beverage industries driving the majority of purchases.

January 25, 2022