Secondary Packaging

The Importance of Load Diagrams

How pallet loads are arranged in a trailer affects profitability, productivity, and efficiency.

February 13, 2023

Machinery: Page 99

Flexible packaging

BAR-U-EAT First to Offer BPI-Certified Compostable Bar Wrappers

The film structure is a lamination of a cellulosic-based film and a compostable sealant web with LLDPE properties. The commercially compostable plant-based materials come from a wood cellulose from FSC-certified, sustainably managed forests and corn.

February 9, 2023

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

KHS Offers Conversion of Its Shrink Tunnels to Alternative Sources of Energy

KHS USA, Inc.

KHS provides individual solutions for its customers with flexible conversions to electricity, natural, or liquid gas.

February 10, 2023

Thermoform/fill/seal

Packaging Equipment for Pre-Made Trays, Cups, and Bowls

Discover if pre-made trays, cups, and bowls are right for your product line and what equipment is needed to to run these packaging types.

February 8, 2023

Controls & machine components

New Service from Pilz Evaluates Machine Safety

Pilz Automation Safety, LP

Companies can obtain a simple, fast overview of the safety and conformity status of their machines via a dashboard with Pilz’s Machinery Safety Evaluation (MSE) service.

February 7, 2023

Labels

Sidel Expands Its Labeling Technologies with the Acquisition of Makro Labelling

Sidel Group

With this acquisition, the Sidel Group will expand its state-of-the-art labeling technologies and broadens its reach in key market segments, and it will ignite a further phase of international development for Makro Labelling.

February 6, 2023

Material handling

Systech Completes Successful 2022

Systech

In 2022, Systech saw an extension of its authority serving the pharmaceutical market, expansion into other markets, and continued enhancement of its comprehensive platform.

February 2, 2023

Cartoning

Innovative New Machinery at PACK EXPO International

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovation. Here's what they found in machinery.

January 28, 2023

Robotics

Schneider Packaging Equipment Expands Operational Capabilities with Machine Investment

Schneider Packaging Equipment, Co.

Schneider Packaging Equipment Company, Inc., a Pacteon Group company, announces the expansion of in-house production capabilities with an investment in a computer numerical control (CNC) router.

February 1, 2023

Flexible packaging

Portable Conveyors Improve Bulk Bagging Ergonomics

Multi-Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor built several conveyors specifically designed and engineered to improve ergonomics in the semi-automated transport of heavy, powder filled and sealed paper bags of dry food.

February 1, 2023

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Digital Printing Drives Case Production

When you make one-of-a-kind whiskeys the way Rabbit Hole Distillery does, it helps to have a corrugated supplier whose capabilities are remarkable in their own right.

February 1, 2023

Workforce

Hennepin Technical College Awarded Packaging World, PMMI Scholarship

Five students at the Automation Robotics Engineering Technology program at Hennepin Technical College in Minnesota will split the $5,000 Future Leaders in Packaging Scholarship from Packaging World and PMMI.

January 30, 2023

Weighing/combination scales

Mettler-Toledo Offers Personalized Virtual Factory Tours to Help Address Manufacturing Issues

METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection

Mettler-Toledo launches two new virtual factory tours, helping pharmaceutical and biopharma manufacturers learn more about product inspection solutions and how to enhance their quality assurance along their production lines.

January 31, 2023