Flexibles

Beverage pouch for alcohol hits it out of the park for the Washington Nationals

As the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers meet in Major League Baseball’s 2018 World Series, the Nationals championed packaging for alcohol-based beverages.

October 23, 2018

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 511

Sustainable Packaging

Amazon invests $10 million in Closed Loop Fund to increase recycling

The company’s investment will divert 1 million tons of recyclable material from landfill into the recycling stream, eliminating the equivalent of 2 million metric tons of CO2 by 2028.

October 23, 2018

Flexibles

Digitally printed wrappers for Halloween

King of Pops, a maker of innovative natural frozen treats, is teaming up with a forward-thinking converter to produce tens of thousands of unique, playfully designed wrappers for its Halloween edition.

October 22, 2018

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Fiber laser coding system for beverage cans

The Beverage Can Coding System from Domino includes a fiber laser printer for date and lot coding along with five complementary components.

October 22, 2018

Thermoform/fill/seal

Thermoformer prepared for Industry 4.0

The X-Line thermoformer connects to the Multivac Cloud for up-to-date information on the software, film availability, and machine settings.

October 22, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

New plant goes from PET bale to rPET packaging

New facility with an 80,000,000-lb annual capacity sorts, cleans, and purifies PET waste to produce rPET rollstock, thermoformed containers, and molded bottle preforms.

October 21, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case former, loader, closer

Cama NA showcases a system designed for a confectionery customer, which uses robots to form, load, and close cases of snack bars.

October 21, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Food-grade recyclable cups, containers

New foopack Bio Natura paperboard stock for hot cups and foodservice containers from Asia Pulp & Paper is recyclable, compostable, and biodegradable.

October 20, 2018

Adhesives/tape

Tape seals even high recycled-content cases

3M’s new Scotch 371+ box sealing tape has been designed to meet the challenges of sealing corrugated cases with up to 100% recycled content.

October 19, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Plug-and-play motion control

Festo’s CPX-E control platform helps OEMs reduce motion handling design time, lower acquisition costs, speed up assembly and improve performance.

October 19, 2018

Robotics

Extending Robot Programmability

Stäubli enables Rockwell Automation PLCs to control its robots.

October 19, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Graphical panel meters

AutomationDirect’s Trumeter graphical panel meters are designed to measure voltage, current, or frequency and provide analog meter-style visual and accurate numeric readings. User-selectable measurement options include 0-600 AC or DC voltage, current at 0-5A direct, or 0-9,999A via transducer, and frequency from 2 to 400 Hz.

October 19, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Stepper drives for Ethernet and Fieldbus network protocols

The advanced drives provide system designers and machine builders flexibility to control step motors using the network protocol of their choice.

October 17, 2018