Secondary Packaging

IDT Biologika Combines Thermoforming and Carton Packaging

By using a single machine for these two packaging functions, this German contract packager reduces space requirements while gaining productivity and flexibility.

March 27, 2017

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Conveying & accumulation

Stone scales craft beer beyond micro format

Known for variety, Stone had long required extreme flexibility in its equipment. But as the business scales up, an all-new line had them looking to strike a balance between agility and volume.

March 1, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Mack Greene, formerly with Orion Packaging, passes away

Charles Maxwell (Mack) Greene, Jr., 63, passed away on January 29, 2017, following a brief illness.

January 31, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Fort Dearborn Company acquires SleeveCo

Fort Dearborn Company expands its solutions offering with acquisition of SleeveCo.

November 29, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Phoenix Packaging Machinery

A stretch wrapper that starts and finishes anywhere on the load.

November 7, 2016

Secondary Packaging

High-end Logo Wrap branding feature comes to economical stretch wrapper

Muller Load Containment Solutions has brought its unique Logo Wrap Feature to its economic, semi-automatic, High Profile Turntable Stretch Wrapper.

November 7, 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

Palletizing/depalletizing

Special new line for a special cement

Calucem of Croatia relies on a complete new packaging line to ship its calcium aluminate cements to more than 60 countries around the world.

August 11, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Automation pays off for G-Sport

Gresvig (G-Sport), the largest player in the Norwegian sports and leisure industry, has implemented a fully automated warehouse management system at their primary warehouse in Askim, just outside of Oslo.

April 5, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Upgrading case picking and pallet stretch wrapping

Beverage distributor automates operations and adopts voice-based picking to more efficiently handle diverse product line.

January 5, 2016

Secondary Packaging

HMI brings ease of navigation to stretch wrapper

Orion featured a new stretch wrapper that has remote connectivity for simplified troubleshooting. Its 7-inch B&R HMI is characterized by icon-based navigation that lets operators get to wherever they need to be in just two clicks.

October 12, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Compact, quiet stretch wrapper

Automated stretch wrapper from Arpac is so new it doesn't even have a name yet, but it's compact, super quiet, and smooth, says Arpac.

September 28, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrapper reduces energy and air consumption

New stretch wrapper from Wulftec replaces pneumatic cylinders with electric stepper motors so no compressed air is involved, meaning less energy is consumed and maintenance is simplified.

September 28, 2015