Cartoning

Triangle Announces New Regional Sales Team Members

Triangle Package Machinery welcomes two new regional sales managers, Mark Freitas–West Coast and Justin Pike–Northeast.

March 1, 2023

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 314

Flexibles

Shower Cream Refill Now in a 100% Recyclable Pouch

The mono-material pouch, for Japanese company Lion Corp.’s Shokubutsu Monogatari brand in Thailand, uses polyethylene film made from tenter-frame biaxial orientation.

March 1, 2023

PMMI News

AMERIPEN/PMMI to Host PACKAGING COMPASS Sustainability Webinar

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies

The PACKAGING COMPASS: Evaluating Trends in U.S. Packaging Design Over the Next Decade and Implications for the Future of a Circular Packaging System webinar is based on a collaboration report from AMERIPEN and PMMI.

March 1, 2023

Conveying & accumulation

Ryson, Royal Apollo Group Open an Office in Mexico

Ryson International, Inc.

The office will represent all of Latin America and provide sales, service, and support. All equipment will still be engineered and manufactured at Ryson’s Headquarters in Yorktown, Va.

March 1, 2023

Digital Printing

Label King Adds Domino Digital Label Press

Domino North America

The Domino N610i digital UV inkjet label press was installed and began running in May 2022.

February 28, 2023

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Optima Releases Book to Commemorate Its 100th Anniversary

OPTIMA

Optima celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2022 and recently released a book, "100 Years of Future", chronicling the company’s history as well as a review of its anniversary year.

February 28, 2023

Secondary Packaging

Syntegon to Launch Upgraded Kliklok BEC Endload Cartoner

Syntegon

The upgraded machine features an optimized drive system, a Human Machine Interface (HMI) 4.0 for simpler Digital Service connectivity, a redesigned frame, and new controls.

February 2, 2023

Conveying & accumulation

Steve Sherman Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ska Fabricating

Ska Fabricating

Sherman has over 20 years of CEO and COO experience serving private, equity, venture capital, and public companies. He recently served as Global VP of Operations for Spectralink Corp.

February 28, 2023

Weighing/combination scales

Mukul Shukla Named Vice President of tna North America

TNA Solutions

With over 30 years of capital industry experience and over 22 years of experience in the packaging industry, Shukla has a proven track record for optimizing processes and improving customer satisfaction. He will be based in tna’s Dallas office.

February 27, 2023

Secondary Packaging

Format Mix Shift Precipitates Speedier Canning Automation

Retail-friendly cans were already hot in craft brew when pandemic-related venue closures accelerated the trend. Dust Bowl Brewing Co.’s increased, sustained reliance on this container format convinced management to double down on canning automation.

February 27, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Carton Council of North America Celebrates Carton Recycling Achievements, Identifies Goals for 2023

The Carton Council announces that entering 2023, 78.6 million U.S. households can recycle their food and beverage cartons through their local recycling programs. This means more than 62% of all U.S. households have access to carton recycling.

February 27, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Test Your Recyclability Knowledge!

Are you a recycling guru? Master of municipal solid waste? Find out where you rank with this quiz.

February 27, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

What’s Needed to Scale Reuse?

Founder of the Loop reusable packaging shopping platform Tom Szaky shares four aspects needed to scale a refillable/reusable packaging system.

February 27, 2023