Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Automation driving blister packaging equipment market

Automation, facility modernization, efficiency and cost control factors combine to strengthen global demand for blister packaging machinery.

September 5, 2017

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Case/tray packing

Beech-Nut completes redesign of infant cereal canisters

Beech-Nut’s popular baby cereal product has been in a paperboard carton for a whole lotta years, but now a coextruded newcomer with a built-in measuring cap has taken its place.

September 5, 2017

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

Bagging hops goes automatic

This Yakima broker used to buy hops pellets and bag them by hand. Now the firm takes in baled hops, mills its own pellets, and then packages the pellets with a combination scale and bagger.

September 5, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Latest packaging tech for coffee, tea capsules

Mitaca S.r.l., a coffee producer and marketer based just outside Milan, brings compression molding of PP coffee capsules in house and radically improves wrapping of tea capsules.

September 5, 2017

Cartoning

Craft beer can line leverages robotics

Depalletizing of empty cans, formation of pallet layers, and lifting of formed layers onto pallets are all done robotically. Elsewhere in the plant, another robot depalletizes reshippers.

September 5, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric Automation: All-in-one Ethernet drives

Mitsubishi Electric Automation has announced the introduction of Ethernet-connected versions of its popular FR-A800 and FR-F800 Series variable frequency drives (VFDs), providing Ethernet connectivity as a standard feature, and allowing the drives to be connected directly to automation equipment and plant information management systems.

September 5, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Carlo Gavazzi: 40 HP soft starters with integrated overload protection

Carlo Gavazzi has launched the compact, 45 mm wide RSGD Series soft starter for 3-phase induction AC motors, needing just three settings.

September 5, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Petroleum Packaging Council elects new board member

The Petroleum Packaging Council is an Association providing technical leadership and education to the petroleum packaging and blending industry.

September 5, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Linear actuators

Schneider announces the release of Lexium MDrive (LMD) linear actuators, delivering clean, quiet linear motion to a wide range of applications from medical to packaging.

August 31, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Four more say, ‘Yes,’ to robotics

Part II of Packaging World’s Special Report on Robotics & Automation continues the story of brand owners who have realized a range of benefits with the implementation of robots.

August 30, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Growing wet wipes business automates case packing, palletizing

Growing by leaps and bounds, wet wipes manufacturer Rockline Industries adds robotic case packing and palletizing to reduce manual processes and their associated safety issues.

August 30, 2017

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

Morris Packaging adds capacity with new pouch machine

The company ordered a Hudson-Sharp 750SGBS Pouch Machine and B&B - MAF Side Gusseted Bag Machine SFB 8E –L as an expansion to its converting operations facility in Jefferson City, Missouri.

August 30, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case packing for a safer end-of-line environment

Indonesian dairy relieves its congested manual case-packing area by installing 11 robotic case packers that improve efficiency, create a safer work environment, and reduce labor costs.

August 29, 2017