Secondary Packaging

Maximize product sales with automated hang tag applicators

Engage consumers, promote product launches, and drive sales for your brand with Graphic Packaging's hang tag applicators. Click to view five videos that demonstrate applying hang tags to various products. We have a machine solution for virtually any hang tag style or shape to help meet your promotion objectives.

April 13, 2015

Machinery: Page 369

Controls & Machine Components

Clippard: Expanded website now operates 24/7

Effective immediately, Clippard Instrument Laboratory is expanding its website hours of operation to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

April 10, 2015

Secondary Packaging

See the stretch hooder: Stretch-All for load securing

STRETCH-ALL by Premier Tech is a universal applicable pallet load securing system based on stretch hood technology to secure a large range of stacked loads to pallets. The system guarantees optimum product safety by protecting it against humidity, UV and other weather conditions as well as against the danger of cargo shift during transport.

April 9, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Reliability comes to palletizing

Replacing a palletizing robot’s end-of-arm tool provides reliability on multiple levels.

April 8, 2015

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

PneumaticScaleAngelus acquires Hema filling company

The Barry-Wehmiller company makes Hema strategic acquisition to expand filling technology synergies.

April 8, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Langen Group's automated cartoning for flow wrapped products

Langen Group offers a variety of solutions for secondary packaging of flow wrapped products. They offer proven solutions that support low, medium and high speed wrappers. Langen's quick change-over hygienic designs are easily capable of handling a variety of pack configurations including flat and edge packs.

April 7, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sato names new Head of North America

SATO appoints Michael Beedles as new Head of North America and President of SGS

April 7, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Yaskawa: New controller, I/O and software products

Yaskawa America, Inc. announces three new motion control products, each of which is designed to improve the performance of automation systems, and to compound the improvement in system effectiveness when used in combination.

April 7, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

FDA issues final guidance on the evaluation and labeling of abuse-deterrent opioids

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on April 1, 2015 issued a final guidance to assist industry in developing opioid drug products with potentially abuse-deterrent properties.

April 5, 2015

Operational Excellence

The Heinz-Kraft merger from a packaging perspective

Heinz 57 would be an underestimation of the number of issues facing the company resulting from its merger with Kraft Foods.

April 3, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Douglas' TriVex® RLi top load case packer fulfills customer need with integrated erect, load, and seal

Douglas' TriVex RLi fulfilled the customer's need of an economical solution with a small footprint. The built-to-last Douglas top load case packer utilizes robotic staging and loading, eliminating the traditional cross-push section, saving valuable customer production floor space. The integrated platform efficiently erects cases, loads cartons in multi-tiers, then seals and discharges.

April 2, 2015

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Single-serve wine gets its own line

Expanding from 4,000 cases in 2012 to 40,000 in 2013, Stacked Wines engineers a proprietary packaging line to bottle its single-serve PET-based wine containers at 180 bottles/min.

April 1, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

The future of machine programming is FAST

ABG reduced design time and costs with Application Templates that lead to software modules so modular in nature that they are effectively autonomous programs in their own right.

April 1, 2015