Sustainability

TIPA, Printpack, Digimarc Create Digital Watermark for Compostable Packaging

TIPA partnered with Printpack and Digimarc Corp. to create the first digital watermark for compostable packaging.

January 18, 2022

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Robotics

Report: Innovative New Robotics at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the robotics category.

January 16, 2022

Sustainability

Michelle Bryson Appointed Global Sustainable Packaging Leader for BW Packaging Systems

BW Packaging (a Barry-Wehmiller Company)

Bryson will lead the development of sustainable solutions for BW Packaging and collaborate with team members and customers on the usage of responsible materials, recyclability, packaging design, waste, carbon footprint reduction, and more.

January 14, 2022

Flexible packaging

Bartelt Packaging Becomes North American Master Distributor for FLtècnics

Bartelt Packaging

Bartelt Packaging is now the North American master distributor for FLtècnics, a Spanish-based manufacturer of hf/f/s, rollstock, pre-made, and forming pouch machinery.

January 14, 2022

Conveying & accumulation

May River Capital Acquires Cablevey Conveyors

May River Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on lower middle market industrial growth companies, acquired Cablevey® Conveyors, a manufacturer of tubular drag conveyor systems based in Oskaloosa, Iowa.

January 13, 2022

Controls & machine components

Case Study: Bastian Solutions Teams with Mitsubishi Electric to Create Automated Stacker Crane

Mitsubishi Electric Automation

Bastian Solutions was asked to engineer a stacker crane for a new automated warehouse. The end user specified a Mitsubishi Electric control system, but Bastian selected Mitsubishi Electric for the drive components.

January 12, 2022

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Durable, Reusable Sampling Packs Reduce Waste, Improve Brand Experience

New Balance Team Sports made the leap from traditional corrugated in D2C sampling and sizing returns to a durable, reusable PET fabric pack. It’s branding makes a nice impression and distinguishes it from other shippers, while being more sustainable.

January 12, 2022

Flexible packaging

Printpack Invests in Nexus Circular

Printpack

Printpack's investment, part of a larger round of private funding, supports the commercial scale up of Nexus Circular's proprietary advanced recycling process.

January 12, 2022

Cartoning

Garrett Guinn Joins SOMIC Packaging as Western Regional Sales Manager

SOMIC Packaging, Inc.

Guinn, a decorated U.S. Army veteran and executive recruiter who switched careers, has spent the last 15 years in business development, sales. and marketing. Based in Spokane, Wash., he will report to CEO Peter Fox.

January 12, 2022

Coding, Printing & Labeling

In-house CMYK Case Printing for CPG Companies

By combining a sophisticated understanding of inks with the latest in ink-jet print engines, GSI and IP are bringing in-house, on-line CMYK Case printing to the packaging line.

January 11, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability Success Must Address the Entire Storybook

Over the past few years, the topic of sustainability as it relates to packaging has been expanding, developing, and becoming increasingly important.

January 11, 2022

Coding, Printing & Labeling

B2+ Digital Inkjet Press Brings New Opportunities

Plenty of commercial printing companies have expanded into the packaging market in recent years, and many times they do so by way of digital printing technology. Spectrum Printing Co. of Tucson, Ariz., is a good example.

January 10, 2022

E-commerce/D2C packaging

What Post-COVID-19 Supply Chains Portend for Packaging

The relationship between supply chains and packaging will change in some respects but remain unchanged in others.

January 7, 2022