Coding & Marking

Erdinger's 100-W Laser Codes Three Lines at 60,000 Bottles/Hour

Erdinger upgraded to a 100W CO₂ laser to support three-line export codes on metallized beer labels running at 60,000 bottles per hour, aiming to maintain code clarity and reduce scrap in high-speed production.

February 13, 2026

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Webinars

Principles of Package Integrity Testing

This webinar will explore the root causes of packaging failures and outline practical, data driven approaches to evaluate performance and improve packaging reliability.

March 17, 2026

Sponsors: AMETEK MOCON

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Inspect/detect/checkweigh/x-ray

METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection Launches Next-Generation Demo Bus

METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection

METTLER TOLEDO's 54-foot bus brings X-ray, metal detection, vision, and combination inspection systems to food and pharma facilities for hands-on testing and evaluation.

February 12, 2026

Digital Transformation

Trener Robotics Delivers Pre-trained Skills to Industrial Robots

Powered by a $32M investment, Trener Robotics’ Acteris platform replaces rigid procedural coding with pre-trained Physical AI skills, letting operators describe robotic tasks in their own words, turning conversational input into executable automation.

February 10, 2026

Labeling

IMA Labeling

February 10, 2026

Cartoning

Yamasa

February 10, 2026

Coding & Marking

Coding is a Key to Egg-packing Upgrade

Steady growth meant that this Ontario company, dedicated to truly fresh and locally sourced eggs, needed faster throughput. ‘We couldn’t keep up anymore,’ says the owner.

February 10, 2026

Controls & Machine Components

Tavoron Announces Acquisition of DP Technologies Group and DP Brown of Saginaw

Tavoron

The transaction, which aims to expand motion control and automation capabilities in the Midwest, builds further scale in Tavoron's automation distribution segment and represents the second add-on acquisition since being acquired by Fusion Capital Partners.

February 9, 2026

Material handling

DP Technologies Group and DP Brown of Saginaw

February 9, 2026

Workforce

NJM Appoints CJ Hatt as Regional Sales Manager for Northeastern United States

NJM Packaging, a ProMach product brand

Hatt aims to help manufacturers and contract packers in that region access NJM’s packaging systems, including solutions from Cremer and Dara Pharma.

February 5, 2026

Package Design

Absolut Tabasco's Optical Trick in Glass Packaging

To merge their two iconic brands, Absolut and Tabasco relied on screen printing, glass optics, and visual hierarchy to create the look of red hot sauce inside a bottle of clear vodka.

February 5, 2026

Labeling

LabelMill

2416 Jackson St.

Savanna, IL 61074

February 4, 2026

Workforce

Spee-Dee Announces Leadership Transitions

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc.

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery names Derek Klein as director of sales and expands the role of Mark Navin to vice president of business development.

February 3, 2026