Machinery: Page 5

Robotics

Ready Meals Assembly Line

From tray denesting to vision-guided robotic placement of protein product to volumetric filling of pasta to sauce depositing to a robot that feeds an MAP unit, Orics’ solution does it all.

October 7, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: "Tattooed" Fruits Save Plastic with Laser Date Coding

Laser etching directly onto suitably thick-skinned fruits like mangos and avocados lets Westfalia Fruit eschew plastic price look-up tags with date codes, while standing out on the shelf. Possibilities for unique designs, even 2D codes, abound.

October 7, 2025

Workforce

Spartanics Brings a New Captain on Board

Spartanics

Spartanics appoints Jake Kowalewski as its new CEO as Tom O’Hara steps down after more than 20 years with the company.

October 6, 2025

Digital Printing

Digital Sign Technologies

October 6, 2025

Digital Transformation

Avery Dennison and Wiliot Expand Partnership

Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison is set to manufacture Wiliot's next-generation, lower-cost, and smaller ambient IoT Bluetooth-enabled sensors and integrate them into its Intelligent Labels portfolio and atma.io connected product cloud to scale the technology's global market reach.

October 3, 2025

Strapping

Robotic Infeed De-Strapping System

Safely de-strap pallets of cans or other containers in a robotic cell directly ahead of depalletizing operations.

October 2, 2025

Robotics

Robotic Layer Forming

Schneider Packaging of the Pacteon group debuted a layer forming system using four Fanuc LR-10 robots to arrange 12-count cases of cans into desired patterns prior to palletizing.

October 1, 2025

Robotics

Robot Floor Cleaner Helps Augment Sanitation Team

These robots can run lights out at facilities, clean up to 20,000 sq. ft. and can replace or augment sanitation departments to help clean high traffic areas.

October 1, 2025

Robotics

Pneumatic Finger Grippers Are Paired with Cobots

Schmalz’ mGrip modular pneumatic gripper technology can be paired with a cobot for food and non-food-grade applications and can handle delicate or irregularly or variable-shaped products.

October 1, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Servo-Controlled Bagger Handles Premade Pouches

AlliedFlex Technologies debuts the servo-controlled Nexes premade-bag filler, which fills a range of bag types and sizes up to 5-kg in simplex or duplex, with rapid changeover.

October 1, 2025

Detergents/cleaners

CPG Clean Control Inspects its New Drop Packer on PACK EXPO Floor

Nic Bekkers at Clean Control says his company's new Serpa drop packer, a first for ProMach, delivers smooth, servo-driven performance with single-dial changeovers, ergonomic quick-swap grids, and 98% uptime—packing bottles of cleaner safely and efficiently while leaving room to scale production when its major retail customers say so.

October 1, 2025

Workforce

Beth Rennich Joins KDV Label as Business Development Manager

KDV Label

Rennich brings over twenty years of experience in sales and account management within the label and packaging industry to focus on customer base expansion and market growth.

October 1, 2025