Coding, Printing & Labeling

A short-run ink-jet printer for corrugated flats and folded RSCs

The Excelagraphics 4800 ink-jet printer from Xante allows small manufacturers to handle short-run jobs. The fast digital flatbed printer prints on corrugated flat sheets, die-cut flats and RSCs that are already folded and glued.

December 14, 2016

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Flexibles

Balance Bar redesign is wrapped in decadence

Positioned as ‘craveable nutrition,’ Balance Bars now use packaging graphics that use delectable images of chocolate, peanut butter, and caramel poured across the canvas.

December 11, 2016

Material handling

PACK EXPO/Pharma EXPO Sets All-Time Record

Pill dispensing system, regulatory-compliant blister carton, automation in cannabis packaging, and serialization issues highlight Pharma EXPO 2016.

December 1, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Cannabis packaging provides a lens into product experience

New line of cannabis products that produce specific effects such as energy, relaxation, or healing is coupled with visual branding that reinforces the tagline, ‘It’s Your Journey.’

November 14, 2016

Sustainability

U.S. carton recycling continues to grow

Through the efforts of the Carton Council and its partners, more than 58% of U.S. households now have access to carton recycling, and end users are clamoring for more material.

November 2, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Krusteaz bakes up mouth-watering design

Baking mix brand brings authenticity to its new packaging design, creating emotional drivers that conjure up delicious taste, and the warmth and smell of an oven baking.

October 24, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Kashi redesign: Each box tells a story

Kashi puts the focus back on the food and its origins, with bold product photography and vignettes on how the food is made and where it comes from.

August 24, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Luxury box for Glenfiddich

A travel retail presentation box created for Glenfiddich 21 year old whisky showcases a number of intricate decoration techniques.

August 11, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Apple packing plant automates palletizing

Washington Fruit & Produce significantly reduces labor and product damage when it implements robotic palletizing systems at its two apple-packing plants.

August 8, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Robots replace manual palletizing at Sargento Foods

A complex system comprising eight robotic palletizing cells with three lanes each replaces manual palletizing operations at Sargento’s Plymouth, WI, plant.

August 6, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

AstraZeneca Uses 3D Modeling in Brazil

Software helps the global biopharmaceutical company’s Cotia plant quickly review 3D models of new packaging for internal customers.

July 29, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Cobot fits meat processor’s floor space and budget requirements

Taking up less than two square feet and needing no guarding, a collaborative robot with a 20-lb payload capacity is the perfect solution to Nortura’s floor-space and budget challenges.

July 17, 2016

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Robotic bow-tying system adds personal touch to chocolate boxes

Robotics solutions provider designs a system to wrap chocolate boxes with a ribbon and form a bow using a six-axis robot programmed to operate in a number of unusual angles.

July 9, 2016