Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: Hexapod positioner

Aerotech’s HexGen hexapods represent a significant advance in six-degree-of-freedom positioning performance; the HEX300-230HL is targeted at medium-load, ultra-precision applications ranging from sensor testing to synchrotron sample manipulation.

March 7, 2017

Machinery: Page 286

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Freshpet automates with robotic chub loader

This on-trend pet food company removed labor from its packaging line and handled increased throughput thanks to a first-of-its kind case packing solution.

March 6, 2017

Flow wrapping

Industrial PC suits new and legacy machines

No matter whose servo drives and motors a customer prefers, and even if the customer’s machine is ‘legacy’ in status, Winpak’s use of this industrial PC comes up big.

March 6, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Premier chocolate maker opts for short-run coding self-sufficiency

Easy to self-install, cost-effective, cartridge-based, small-character ink-jet printer offers coding operations flexibility and independence.

March 6, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Carlo Gavazzi: Three-phase power analyzer

Carlo Gavazzi announces the new WM20 three-phase power analyzer, targeted to assist manufacturers and end users in monitoring and managing escalating energy costs.

March 6, 2017

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Harpack-ULMA appoints bakery and confectionary segement manager

Harpak-ULMA hired David Nettles to lead Bakery and Confectionary Segment.

March 3, 2017

Conveying & accumulation

Stone scales craft beer beyond micro format

Known for variety, Stone had long required extreme flexibility in its equipment. But as the business scales up, an all-new line had them looking to strike a balance between agility and volume.

March 1, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

MicroVention Improves Total Production Efficiency 50%

Enterprise-level label management system integrates with MicroVention’s ERP system to streamline global labeling process.

March 1, 2017

Cartoning

Devils Backbone keeps it local, familiar

This growing East Coast brewery has found value in responsive, local machine builders and vendors who are intimately familiar with their lines of bottling and canning equipment.

March 1, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Steady growth makes automation essential

Beers brewed by this Munster, IN, brewery just 60 miles from Chicago have won their fair share of accolades over the years. Now management is focused on expansion and automation.

March 1, 2017

Operational Excellence

Serialization Event for CMOs, CPOs and 3PLs

Two interactive days in Princeton, NJ, aim to assist key pharmaceutical manufacturers, CMOs, CPOs and 3PL’s achieve cost-effective compliance with November DSCSA serialization deadline.

February 28, 2017

Flexible packaging

New chip pack format seen at PACK EXPO East

Irving, TX-based Mission Foods has sold its popular tortilla chips in preformed flat-bottom pouches made of a paper lamination for many years now, but new packages shown at PACK EXPO East suggest that a change is being evaluated.

February 28, 2017

Flexible packaging

New cat litter pack spotted at PACK EXPO East

Clorox brand Scoop Away cat litter now comes in a convenient new format: four flexible-film brick packs in a shrink-wrapped corrugated tray holding a total of 38 lb of cat litter.

February 27, 2017