Webinars

End-of-Line Automation 101: How to Get Started, Scale, and Maximize ROI

March 25, 2025

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The mechanics behind case erectors, case packers, and palletizers, and how they work together to streamline your packaging line.

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Beer

Market Garden Builds Long Runway for Growth into Tight Quarters

With a new rotary filler/rotary seamer at its heart, a nearly all-new packaging line is now humming along at 100 cans per minute. Future-proofing the line meant building in a lot more capacity than is needed—for now, at least.

February 21, 2025

Robotics

Robotiq Expands Adaptive Gripper Compatibility Across Major Cobot Brands

Robotiq

Robotiq extends its adaptive gripper compatibility to Universal Robots, FANUC, Doosan, Omron, and Techman cobots, simplifying deployment and boosting efficiency for manufacturers facing labor shortages and increasing production demands.

February 20, 2025

Beer

New Canning, In-house Shrink Sleeve Labeling, Distinguish Craft Brewer

The Shop Beer Co. decommissioned one canning line and replaced it with another. Also part of its manufacturing mix is an in-house shrink sleeve labeling operation just down the street.

February 18, 2025

Robotics

Unique Gripper Shines in Robotic Cookie Multi-pack Automation System

Ten delta-style robots use unique, easily changed end-of-arm tooling to stack cookies into slugs and then place slugs into plastic trays at 700 cookies/min with a 99% performance guarantee.

February 16, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

E-PAK Machinery Names New Regional Sales Manager

E-Pak Machinery Inc.

E-PAK Machinery appoints Chase Swedersky to its sales team, where he will lead efforts in the Southeastern territory.

February 14, 2025

Workforce

Spee-Dee Adds to Regional Sales Team

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc.

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery promotes from within and names Terri Fountain and Bobby Tracy as Regional Sales Managers.

February 14, 2025

Contract packaging

Bettaway Finds Right Place, Right Time for Repacking

How Bettaway Supply Chain Services turned a warehouse into a value-added carton repacking operation for Nestlé’s San Pellegrino brand.

February 12, 2025

Controls & Machine Components

Automation Unscrambles Bottling Chaos

Pace Packaging harnessed flexible automation in a versatile robotic unscrambling and orienting solution that delivers industry-leading throughput in an ultra-compact machine footprint.

February 11, 2025

Case erect/seal

Take Five Minutes to Learn About the Major Types of Case Packers

Do you ever wonder how products end up neatly packed into those corrugated shipping cases? Enhance your knowledge of case packing equipment in five minutes as Package This explores the many types of case packing equipment available.

February 10, 2025

Recycling

Energizer Launches Plastic-Free Paper Pack with Walmart

The Energizer Bunny rolled out a new paper pack that's 100% curbside recyclable, with bold new look for shelf presence and consumer experience in Walmart other retailers. Duracell made a similar move at the end of 2024, also with Walmart.

February 7, 2025

Bulk handling/filling equipment

Duravant Acquires Pattyn Group

Duravant

The acquisition will expand Duravant's portfolio of engineered equipment and automation solutions.

February 7, 2025

Labeling

WLS Promotes Michael Mora to Machine Reliability Manager

WLS, a ProMach product brand

Michael Mora's promotion to Machine Reliability Manager at WLS aims to improve customer support and optimize labeling equipment performance over time.

February 7, 2025