Containers & Closures

FASTEN Wins Prestigious Gold Pentaward for Sustainable Packaging Concept

FASTEN Packaging's ONE merges innovative design with a focus on sustainability.

November 13, 2024

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Coding & Marking

Sneed Coding Solutions Donates Handheld Printers to Houston Food Bank

Sneed Coding Solutions

The donation by Sneed Coding Solutions will help the organization better manage inventory, ensure food safety standards, and ultimately serve more people in need.

November 13, 2024

Filling, Capping & Closing

Horix and FBN: A Strategic Alliance to Elevate Bottling Technology

FBN

Horix and FBN join forces to provide comprehensive bottling solutions, from audits and upgrades to maintenance and support.

November 13, 2024

Inspect/detect/checkweigh/x-ray

Labthink Strengthens Asia-Pacific Presence with New Customer Center

Labthink International, Inc.

Labthink Sdn Bhd, located in Malaysia, is the company's fourth global branch and will provide quality control solutions for packaging materials and products in the region.

November 13, 2024

Consumer packaged goods

Mattel's “Wicked” Packaging Error Leads to Major Recall

The company was forced to recall the entire "Wicked" dolls line just before the Holiday season. A printing mistake led consumers to an adult website rather than providing more information on the upcoming film release.

November 12, 2024

Controls & Machine Components

Norwalt Launches New Corporate Umbrella Company, Norwalt Automation Group, and Introduces Four Specialized Divisions

Norwalt Automation Group

New divisions strategically align company to better suit target markets in automation.

November 11, 2024

Coding & Marking

Continuous Inkjet Printer Runs Two Jets for Faster Printing in Larger Print Area

Designed to print 2D codes, Markem Imaje system is launched just in advance of GS1 Sunrise 2027 market transformation.

November 11, 2024

PACK EXPO

Compact Cartoner Makes its Debut

The Spartan M-Pro is a super compact cartoner designed chiefly for the cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceutical industries that features a two-stage pick and erect system.

November 11, 2024

Form/fill/seal - horizontal

Spouted Standup Pouch Made from Recycle-ready Film

At Effytec a horizontal f/f/s machine was running monomaterial recycle-ready film and featured a special Dukane welding station to attach pour spouts to each pouch.

November 11, 2024

Bagging & Pouching

Ultra-Compact Bagger Reaches Speeds of 300 Packs/min

Measuring less than 1 m wide, the new SVX Compact from Syntegon can produce flat bags up to 270 mm wide as well as pillow, gusseted, and flat bottom styles at 300 /min for snack, confectionery, and bakery products.

November 11, 2024

Robotics

CMES Robotics Highlights AI-Powered Case Depalletizer

Random case depalletizing solution offers a fast and versatile solution for mixed SKU depalletizing.

November 11, 2024

Recycling

Mono-material, Aseptic, Food Contact HDPE/rHDPE Carton

Fully recyclable HDPE mono-material barrier packaging range as a ‘sustainable alternative to beverage cartons.'

November 11, 2024

Inspect/detect/checkweigh/x-ray

Thermal Imaging for Induction Seal Inspection on Bottles

Yoran Imaging's groundbreaking technology can detect induction seal integrity through the cap at high production speeds, generating high-resolution images to detect errors and increase traceability.

November 8, 2024