Sustainable Packaging

Annie's Organics and Post-Consumer Recycled Content

Pat Keenan, organic snack producer, talks with Matt Reynolds about his brand, Annie's, and the journey to achieve sustainable cereal bag liner using post-consumer recycled content.

February 2, 2021

Machinery: Page 183

Converting equipment

PCMC Appoints Business Development Manager

Paper Converting Machine Co.

Andy Piotter was appointed Business Development Manager, Packaging Systems for Paper Converting Machine Co. (PCMC)—a division of Barry-Wehmiller.

February 1, 2021

Controls & Machine Components

Indicators Facilitate Changeover

Reliable operator guidance for size changeover on end-of-line packaging machinery is provided by AP05 electronic position indicators

January 27, 2021

Robotics

FANUC Launches CRX Cobot Website

FANUC America

FANUC America launched a new e-learning website to educate manufacturers and industry about its CRX collaborative robot.

January 27, 2021

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Serac Hires Western Regional Sales Manager

Serac Inc

Rudy Molinar was hired as Regional Sales Manager for Serac Inc. He will report directly to Ken Norman, Managing Director.

January 27, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Import Tariffs Apply to One Thing or Another

Questions recently arose about whether a specific shape of pasta was actually a drinking straw.

January 27, 2021

Labels

Great Lakes Label Launches New Website

Great Lakes Label

Great Lakes Label’s new website was updated to reflect the constant innovation of the company.

January 27, 2021

Cartoning

Pharmaworks Appoints Director of Sales

Pharmaworks, a ProMach product brand

Chad Tyler was appointed Director of Sales for Pharmaworks, part of ProMach Pharma Solutions.

January 27, 2021

Adhesives/tape

Mark Ewing, Shurtape, Passes Away

Shurtape Technologies

Mark Ewing, Packaging Sales Professional at Shurtape, passed away on January 19, 2021.

January 26, 2021

PMMI News

Report: Innovative New Machinery at PACK EXPO Connects

PMMI Media Group editors—covering a virtual event instead of an in-person exposition—divided and conquered to collectively take in as much of PACK EXPO Connects as possible. Here’s what they saw in the machinery category.

January 25, 2021

Robotics

Saw Mill Capital Acquired RND Automation

Saw Mill Capital

Saw Mill Capital Partners II, LP and affiliated private equity investment funds managed by Saw Mill Capital LLC announce the acquisition of RND Automation.

January 22, 2021

Flexible packaging

ProMach Acquires KHS Bartelt

ProMach

The acquisition includes the assets of Bartelt, Scandia, and Kayat from KHS USA which will expand ProMach’s portfolio of solutions in pouch packaging, cartoning, and shrink packaging in North America.

January 22, 2021

Robotics

ABB Offers Maintenance Service for Robot Assessments

ABB Robotics

ABB’s new Condition-Based Maintainance (CBM) service enables robot users to create a preventive maintenance schedule for individual or robot fleets based on real-time operational data, to optimize productivity and minimize downtime.

January 22, 2021