Flexibles

BW Flexible Systems Establishes Sales and Support Office in South Africa

Craig Bergset and Andre Systermans join the local team to serve customers in the region.

May 26, 2020

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

Spee-Dee Promotes Mark Navin to Vice President of Sales

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc.

Navin to lead company’s entire sales effort after 25 years of strategic account success.

May 26, 2020

Sustainability

Sitma Machinery Packages Masks in Sustainable Paper

Sitma S.p.A.

Sitma offered its skills, machinery, and workforce to package a supply of over 30.0000 masks for the Municipalities of Castelvetro and Vignola, in Modena area (northern Italy).

May 21, 2020

Shrink wrapping

Engage Technologies Awarded ISO Certification

Engage Technologies Corporation

Engage Technologies Corp. was awarded the ISO 9001:2015 Certification for Quality Management Systems.

May 21, 2020

Robotics

ABB Offers Support Package to Customers Resuming Operations

ABB Robotics

ABB’s Robotics and Discrete Automation business launched a special package of digital solutions as well as virtual and field service support initiatives to help businesses restart production lines that may have been idle during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 19, 2020

Flexible packaging

AlliedFlex Technologies and Scholle IPN Announce North American Sales and Marketing Alliance

ALLIEDFLEX Technologies, Inc.

AlliedFlex and Scholle IPN entered into a Sales and Marketing Alliance whereby AlliedFlex will offer Sholle’s IPN Aseptic Spouted Pouch Packaging Machinery and IPN Bag in Box Machinery program as part of its Flexible Packaging Machinery portfolio.

May 19, 2020

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Shrink Sleeve Fits Fine for Cannabis Seltzer & Soda Line

With varied SKUs for CP/CM business, plus a quickly growing in-house brand of its own, this cannabis-infused beverage producer found that shrink sleeve labeling is the right solution for just about any and all form factors, whether glass, PET, or cans.

May 19, 2020

Operational Excellence

Economic Outlook: 2020 and Beyond

Discussing the current economic outlook amidst a “double black swan event,” Alex Chausovsky of ITR Economics presented “Guidance in an Uncertain Economy” last week as part of PMMI’s Executive Leadership Conference.

May 18, 2020

Flexible packaging

Glenroy Recognizes Its Workers During COVID-19

Glenroy, Inc.

Glenroy Inc. initiated a campaign to recognize its manufacturing staff as heroes who come to work every day to continue to produce flexible packaging for essential products such as food, medical supplies, sanitizers, and soap.

May 18, 2020

Digital Printing

Direct Digital Print Brings AR Experience to Beverage Cans

By printing a QR code on the side of aluminum beverage cans, this Canadian firm and three partnering beverage producers are lifting spirits in this time of pandemic.

May 18, 2020

Form/fill/seal - horizontal

Harpak-ULMA Announces Packaging Design & Prototyping Services

Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC.

Harpak-ULMA announced a new suite of packaging design and prototyping services to help producers more rapidly and cost-effectively develop and operationalize innovative packaging concepts.

May 14, 2020

Recycling

Breakthrough in Direct Digital Can Printing

Tonejet’s electrostatic drop-on-demand can printing technology has taken some time to mature since it first burst onto the scene. That makes this SoluCan installation awfully interesting.

May 14, 2020

Converting equipment

Huhtamäki Decreases Plate Production Time with Flint Group Equipment

Huhtamaki

When Huhtamäki’s existing plate making equipment was reaching the end of its life cycle, it invested in a Flint Group plate making solution.

May 12, 2020