Controls & Machine Components

Indicators Facilitate Changeover

Reliable operator guidance for size changeover on end-of-line packaging machinery is provided by AP05 electronic position indicators

January 27, 2021

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Robotics

FANUC Launches CRX Cobot Website

FANUC America

FANUC America launched a new e-learning website to educate manufacturers and industry about its CRX collaborative robot.

January 27, 2021

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Serac Hires Western Regional Sales Manager

Serac Inc

Rudy Molinar was hired as Regional Sales Manager for Serac Inc. He will report directly to Ken Norman, Managing Director.

January 27, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Plasma Gasification Promises Holistic Solution to Waste Management Circular Economy in Seven-Minute Video Report

The U.S. recycling infrastructure is failing, and public participation is ebbing. University of Florida is developing a litter and waste management solution to transform recycled trash into syngas.

January 27, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

Import Tariffs Apply to One Thing or Another

Questions recently arose about whether a specific shape of pasta was actually a drinking straw.

January 27, 2021

Sustainable Packaging

To Regulate or Not to Regulate?

As power changes hands in Washington, some change in federal policy toward sustainability is also expected, and that might involve packaging, especially plastics.

January 27, 2021

Labels

Great Lakes Label Launches New Website

Great Lakes Label

Great Lakes Label’s new website was updated to reflect the constant innovation of the company.

January 27, 2021

Cartoning

Pharmaworks Appoints Director of Sales

Pharmaworks, a ProMach product brand

Chad Tyler was appointed Director of Sales for Pharmaworks, part of ProMach Pharma Solutions.

January 27, 2021

Labels

Cannabis Operation Ascends Steep Packaging Learning Curve

As it fills a market gap to produce a refined product for discriminating tastes, particularly amid a competitive set that tends toward speed to market, 1620 Labs leans on packaging to differentiate itself.

January 27, 2021

Adhesives/tape

Mark Ewing, Shurtape, Passes Away

Shurtape Technologies, LLC

Mark Ewing, Packaging Sales Professional at Shurtape, passed away on January 19, 2021.

January 26, 2021

Sustainability

WPO Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for 2021

World Packaging Organisation (WPO)

WPO (World Packaging Organisation) announced that Ralph Moyle was awarded its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021.

January 26, 2021

PMMI News

Report: Innovative New Machinery at PACK EXPO Connects

PMMI Media Group editors—covering a virtual event instead of an in-person exposition—divided and conquered to collectively take in as much of PACK EXPO Connects as possible. Here’s what they saw in the machinery category.

January 25, 2021

Flexibles

Ocean Spray Snack Pack Joins Mono-Material March

A premium, high-barrier recyclable package for Ocean Spray’s Craveology Tuscan Herb snack mix uses ProActive Recyclable R-1000 film, part of ProAmpac’s ProActive Sustainability® product offerings.

January 25, 2021