Workforce

Domino Welcomes Senior Sales Manager

Lloyd Kent joined Domino as Senior Sales Manager for Corrugated, Digital Printing North America.

August 13, 2020

Machinery: Page 204

Secondary Packaging

Multipacker Helps Historic Brewery Juggle Multiplying SKUs

There’s a lot more than bock beer in Shiner, Texas. A new automated secondary packaging system allowed Spoetzl Brewery to expand its range of formats, automate variety packs, and ultimately, reach all new cohorts of beer drinkers.

August 12, 2020

Controls & machine components

Allied Electronics and Schneider Electric Team Up to Help Engineers Build Better Industrial Control Panels

RS

Allied Electronics & Automation and Schneider Electric are partnering to deploy a suite of digital resources, hosted on Allied’s Build a Better Control Cabinet digital hub, that can help customers design, build, and maintain industrial control panels.

August 11, 2020

Robotics

Robotics Special Report: Making Sense of ANSI R15.06 and ANSI B155.1

To determine the right standards approach for your organization, it’s helpful to understand how standards are structured, which responsibilities and requirements are associated with the standards, and ISO restrictions.

August 11, 2020

Flexible packaging

Liquibox Equipment Used in Processing Plant to Meet Increased Product Demand

Liquibox

When Philippines-based Cardinal Agri faced market demand for smaller units of its bag-in-box coconut cream for the food service industry, it reached out to Liquibox for help.

August 11, 2020

Form/fill/seal - horizontal

Butler Automatic Announces Return of Andrew Butler as CEO

Butler Automatic

Andrew Butler returns to Butler Automatic as CEO.

August 10, 2020

Robotics

Robotics Special Report: Vision Enables Tube Picking/Placing at 160/min

A new SCARA robotic cell developed for the collation of cosmetic tubes uses vision software and specially designed end-of-arm tooling.

August 7, 2020

Robotics

Robotics Special Report: E-Commerce Requires new Solutions

New robot technology addresses the specific needs of e-commerce packaging, including mixed pallet loads, labor challenges, and a variety of secondary packaging formats.

August 6, 2020

Digital Printing

Steve Lynn to Lead Durst Label and Packaging Division

Durst

Durst North America announced that Steve Lynn, Director and GM, New Markets, will lead the label and packaging division.

August 6, 2020

Controls & machine components

Beckhoff Employee Appointed to IEEE Committee

Beckhoff USA

Beckhoff's Dr. Karl Weber is the first representative from EU appointed to the IEEE Committee. He will represent the German Federal Ministry in the international Government Engagement Program on Standards

August 6, 2020

Robotics

Motion Controls Robotics at Virtual Converter Expo

Motion Controls Robotics will showcase its robotic roll handling systems at the 2020 Virtual Converter Expo.

August 5, 2020

Robotics

Robotics Special Report: Cobots Continue to Advance

According to a PMMI robot report, cobots accounted for about 3% of all robot sales in North America in 2017; by 2025, that number is expected to increase to 34%. Here are some of the new cobot technologies driving that growth.

August 5, 2020

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Hudson-Sharp Names Regional Sales Directors

Hudson-Sharp Machine Co.

Hudson-Sharp named Peter Sztehno and Scott Romenesko regional sales directors.

August 5, 2020