Conveying & accumulation

Petros Diamantides Appointed COO – Emerging Markets for Duravant

Diamantides will be responsible for driving geographic expansion for Duravant products and services across its food processing, packaging and material handling sectors by delivering brands, solutions, and infrastructure to support its global customers.

July 6, 2022

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Palletizing/depalletizing

Toyota Material Handling Hires Daniel Schumacher as Director of Information Technology

Toyota Material Handling

Schumacher joins Toyota from Komatsu, where he served as Global Director of IT Applications and Digital Innovation.

June 30, 2022

Robotics

Epson Robots Names Advanced Motion & Controls a Distributor in Canada

EPSON Robots

Epson Robots named Advanced Motion & Controls Ltd (AM&C), a Canadian distributor of factory automation products and solutions, an official distributor of its automation solutions for the Ontario region.

June 30, 2022

Labels

Nobelus Launches New Films for Prime Labels

Nobelus

Laminate supplier offers label converters a complete portfolio for label lamination.

June 29, 2022

Conveying & accumulation

Bastian Solutions Awarded Several Workplace Honors

Bastian Solutions

Three of Bastian's offices have been named including, Best Place to Work in Indiana and Kentucky and a Top Workplace in St. Louis, Mo.

June 28, 2022

Robotics

Pearson Packaging, PMMI Fund Donation to Saint George’s School Robotics Program

Pearson Packaging Systems

Pearson Packaging Systems and PMMI partnered to provide Saint George’s K-12 school robotics program with a matching fund donation through the PMMI U Skills Fund.

June 28, 2022

Sustainability

World’s First Tequila in Paperboard ‘Bag-in-Bottle’ Design

Distilled in Jalisco, Mexico, and launching in Sweden, Buen Vato is the world’s first tequila in a bottle-shaped paperboard container and 750-mL metalized PET pouch, made from 84% recycled material.

June 28, 2022

E-commerce/D2C packaging

DHL on E-Commerce Growth: Don’t Ship Air by Air

As a courier, 3PL, and “in-Distribution Center (in-DC)” contract packager, DHL, especially DHL Supply Chain, occupies a unique space in e-comm and packaging.

June 28, 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

Sustainable Packaging

Conference Report: Digital Print’s Potential to Boost Sustainability

Industry experts outline the sustainability benefits of choosing digital printing, and how to convince brands to adopt the technology.

June 22, 2022

Sustainability

Jeffrey Prosinski Appointed to Michelman Board of Directors

Michelman Inc.

Prosinski is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at J.M. Huber Corp.

June 20, 2022

Sustainability

BoxMaker University Summer Camp Returns on July 11-15

The BoxMaker, Inc.

The 2nd Annual BoxMaker University Summer Camp virtual event will feature several free webinars and five days of curated digital resource bundles, each focused on a different topic of packaging.

June 17, 2022

Digital Printing

PCMC Delivers Digital Printing Technology to IGT

Paper Converting Machine Co.

Paper Converting Machine Co., part of Barry-Wehmiller, partnered with International Game Technology (IGT) to enhance its complex lottery instant ticket game printing process with PCMC's ION digital printing technology.

June 16, 2022