Robotics

E-commerce Poses New Automation Challenges

Two new robotic technologies help address e-commerce related packaging issues, including a reduced labor pool, the need for speed, and sorting of intermixed products.

August 17, 2021

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Cup/tray filling/depositing/sealing

As Café-Hatched Egg Bites Hit Retail Shelves, Vital Farms Reimagines Pack Design, Function

The foodservice channel gave us the egg bites trend with sous vide, but Vital Farms advanced it with a new retail pack format allowing for in-pack baking in CPET trays at the production facility. Consumers simply microwave the MAP trays at home.

August 16, 2021

Robotics

‘Big Leaps’ in End-of-Arm Tooling for Robots

Advances in end-of-arm-tooling include increased agility and intelligence, especially for food and beverage packaging applications, and greater ease of changeover.

August 16, 2021

Conveying & accumulation

Unscramble and Accumulation with Binary Rotary Tables

Multi-Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor recently built an unscrambling rotary table and an accumulation rotary table that are connected by a 30 ft basic plastic straight running chain conveyor.

August 13, 2021

Flexible packaging

Printpack’s Williamsburg Plant Receives VPP Star Certification

Printpack

The facility was approved as a Virginia STAR Worksite under Virginia’s Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), the agency’s highest level of recognition for excellence in safety and health management systems.

August 13, 2021

Sustainability

Michael Reed Joins Spartech as VP, Business Management, M&A & Sustainability

Spartech Corporation

In his new role, Reed will be responsible for business managers and general managers within Spartech’s new business teams.

August 12, 2021

Robotics

Wyzo Sidebot to be Exhibited at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Wyzo

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #SL-6027! The Wyzo direct-drive pick-and-place sidebot will be showcased to the U.S. market for the first time at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

August 12, 2021

Retail display packaging

Vanguard Companies Wins Gold and Silver in the Box Manufacturing Olympics

Vanguard Packaging

Vanguard won two gold awards and one silver award in the first-ever 2021 Box Manufacturing Olympics. TAPPI’s CorrPak Competition and AICC’s Package Design Competition joined forces to create the new competition.

August 12, 2021

Robotics

New SCARA Robots Offer Ease of Integration, Programming

Among new offerings are an expanded line from Fanuc that has a compact controller with vision and conveyor tracking software and a single development environment from Epson for its IntelliFlex robots.

August 12, 2021

Digital Transformation

Beckhoff to Highlight XPlanar at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Beckhoff USA

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #LS-6149! From Flying Motion with XPlanar to cloud-connected IoT tools and beyond, Beckhoff will showcase packaging industry updates in PC-based control, IIoT, drive technology and EtherCAT networking solutions.

August 11, 2021

Robotics

Pick-and-Place Beyond the Case

Robotics suppliers are introducing a range of new pick-and-place solutions for applications other than case packing, such as product handling, feeding, and loading.

August 11, 2021

Cartoning

Cama to Highlight AR Benefits on Secondary Packaging Line At PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Cama North America

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #C-3614! Cama Group will demonstrate its augmented reality (AR) solutions on a fully integrated secondary packaging solution, featuring a CL169 side-load cartoning machine and FW748 wrap around case packer.

August 11, 2021

Robotics

More Flexible Robots Allow for More Case-Packing Options

New robotic equipment enables end users to address the growing range of case sizes, counts, and formats required by their customers with ease of programming and changeover.

August 10, 2021