Operational Excellence

PACK EXPO East: From the Floor

Did you miss PACK EXPO East? See what Packaging World Editor Matt Reynolds had to say in the “PACK EXPO Rewind Show Floor Findings” podcast with PMMI’s Sean Riley.

March 19, 2020

Machinery: Page 209

Robotics

Soft Robotics Webinar: Handling Variation in Food Packaging

Oxipital AI

Soft Robotics, Inc. will host a free webinar on March 26 at 12 p.m. EDT that will help integrators and manufacturers successfully launch food and consumer packaged goods to market.

March 18, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Solutions for a Circular Plastics Economy

The Packaging Conference takes on sustainability, in particular the war on plastics, shedding light on the monumental challenges facing the packaging industry and how they are being addressed.

March 16, 2020

Controls & machine components

B&R Signs New Distribution Channel Partner

B&R Industrial Automation

B&R Industrial Automation announced that Automation Distribution, Inc. (ADI) will serve as its distribution channel partner for Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey (South), and Delaware.

March 12, 2020

Secondary Packaging

Understanding Systematic Load Containment

There are two types of stretch film: cast and blown.

March 10, 2020

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

ProMach Strengthens Pharmaceutical Portfolio with Acquisition of Pharmaworks

ProMach

ProMach, a packaging machinery solutions manufacturer, announced it acquired Pharmaworks, a provider of blister packaging technology for the pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and contract packaging industries.

March 10, 2020

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Online Retailer Improves Pack-Station Ergonomics, Boosts Capacity

Coop.dk, a web-based grocery retailer, reduced uncomfortable lifting motions and taxing repetitive packout habits for workers at its Odense, Denmark distribution center.

March 6, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Nancy Wilson, CEO of Morrison Container Handling Solutions Awarded the STEP Ahead Award

Morrison Container Handling Solutions

Nancy Wilson, CEO of Morrison Container Handling Solutions was awarded a 2020 STEP Ahead Award from the Manufacturing Institute. Wilson will accept the award on April 30 in Washington, DC.

March 6, 2020

Operational Excellence

Retail Industry, CPGs Support Switch from UPC to Data-Rich Barcode

Retailers and brands support a transition from UPC to 2D barcodes, watermarks, or RFID tags to provide consumers with more detailed product information and transparency and retailers with more supply chain data.

March 5, 2020

Controls & machine components

Quest Industrial and ProMach Receive Sales Award from Fanuc Japan

Quest Industrial

Fanuc Japan awarded Quest Industrial and ProMach with its 2019 Global Partner Sales Award.

March 4, 2020

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

ProMach Names Senior Vice President of Pharma Business Line

ProMach

ProMach, a packaging machinery solutions manufacturer, named Tom McDaniel Senior Vice President for its Pharma Business Line.

February 28, 2020

Labeling

Würth IT Partners With NiceLabel to Transform Supplier Labeling

NiceLabel

Würth IT, a service provider for the Würth Group, selected NiceLabel to help it create a new web-based standardized supplier labeling process.

February 26, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Circular Supply Chain and the Reusable Packaging Association

Circularity and reusable packaging systems will be the topic of RPA’s free 2-hour educational program on May 20 in Atlanta, GA, following the Circularity 20 conference.

February 25, 2020