Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

ProMach Acquires Modern Packaging

ProMach’s acquisition of Modern Packaging, a manufacturer of filling and sealing solutions for the food and dairy industries will expands ProMach’s filling machinery product range with additional capabilities for viscous food and dairy products.

July 9, 2020

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Cartoning

Douglas Machine Offers Replacement Parts Program

Douglas Machine Inc.

Douglas Machine designed the PartsPlus proactive parts program to help maintain maximum performance in packaging equipment and avoid costly downtime.

July 9, 2020

Robotics

Mobile Industrial Robots Appoints New President

Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)

Denmark-based Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) appointed Søren Nielsen president. Effective August 1, Nielsen, will take over the responsibilities of MiR co-founder and CEO Thomas Visti.

July 8, 2020

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Nanographic Press Arrives in California

It appears that Landa Digital Printing is making good on its promise that this will be a year for multiple installations of its innovative S10 Nanographic press.

July 8, 2020

Sustainability

ABB Remanufactures Robots

ABB Robotics

ABB’s remanufactured robots program allows existing robot users to sell inactive or legacy robots to ABB with a buy back service, rather than scrapping them or leaving them unused in a corner of the factory.

July 7, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Multi-Conveyor Builds Metered Servo Merging Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor recently built a high-speed metered servo merging conveyor as part of a larger system to transport packaged food. It feeds a series of servo belt conveyors to gap two lanes of product into a single lane flow using DARB technology.

July 7, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Dorner Conveyor Receives Class 4 Cleanroom Certification

Dorner

Dorner’s Edge Roller Technology (ERT250) conveyor received certification for use in ISO Standard 14644-1 Class 4 rated cleanrooms. This means Dorner’s ERT250 will conform and not contribute to the contamination of cleanrooms to those standards.

July 7, 2020

Controls & machine components

Bosch Rexroth Hosts Free Virtual Event

Bosch Rexroth Corporation

Bosch Rexroth will host a free 4-day virtual event July 13-16 that will discuss the Factory of the Future.

July 7, 2020

Sustainability

WestRock Hires Senior Vice President of Science and Innovation

Smurfit Westrock

Rajiv Banavali was appointed Senior Vice President of Science and Innovation at WestRock Co. He will focus on building materials science capabilities that can be used as the basis for creating new products, processes, and services across the company.

July 6, 2020

Shrink wrapping

EDL Packaging Names Director of Sales

EDL Packaging, a Massman Company

EDL Packaging, A Massman Co., named David O’Keefe Director of Sales at its Green Bay, Wis. location.

July 6, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Proseal Launches Tray Positioning System

Proseal

Proseal launched a first of its kind tray positioning system that calculates the required tray-spacing set-up parameters for individual tray sealing tool-sets, eliminating the trial and error usually associated with this process.

July 6, 2020

Beverage

Refrigerated Oat Creamer from nutpods

Coffee creamer company nutpods, based in Bellevue, WA, has recently introduced a new refrigerated product line: zero sugar oat creamer.

July 6, 2020

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

High Speed Spouted Pouch Filling, Capping System

ALLIEDFLEX Technologies, Inc.

The Bossar BCF-2 linear system can handle a variety of products and spouted pouch formats as a dual lane linear system filling and capping at 120 to 140 PPM.

July 2, 2020