Coding, Printing & Labeling

Nanographic Press Arrives in California

It appears that Landa Digital Printing is making good on its promise that this will be a year for multiple installations of its innovative S10 Nanographic press.

July 8, 2020

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Labels

Jones Soda Labels Convey ‘Messages of Hope’ Amidst COVID-19

Six limited-edition label designs for the U.S. and six for Canada convey the spirit of resilience that has emerged during the coronavirus crisis.

July 7, 2020

Sustainability

ABB Remanufactures Robots

ABB Robotics

ABB’s remanufactured robots program allows existing robot users to sell inactive or legacy robots to ABB with a buy back service, rather than scrapping them or leaving them unused in a corner of the factory.

July 7, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Multi-Conveyor Builds Metered Servo Merging Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor recently built a high-speed metered servo merging conveyor as part of a larger system to transport packaged food. It feeds a series of servo belt conveyors to gap two lanes of product into a single lane flow using DARB technology.

July 7, 2020

Conveying & accumulation

Dorner Conveyor Receives Class 4 Cleanroom Certification

Dorner

Dorner’s Edge Roller Technology (ERT250) conveyor received certification for use in ISO Standard 14644-1 Class 4 rated cleanrooms. This means Dorner’s ERT250 will conform and not contribute to the contamination of cleanrooms to those standards.

July 7, 2020

Flexibles

CP Flexible Packaging Acquires Genpak Flexible

CP Flexible Packaging Solutions

CP Flexible Packaging acquired Genpak Flexible from The Jim Pattison Group.

July 7, 2020

Controls & machine components

Bosch Rexroth Hosts Free Virtual Event

Bosch Rexroth Corporation

Bosch Rexroth will host a free 4-day virtual event July 13-16 that will discuss the Factory of the Future.

July 7, 2020

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Reduced Material E-comm Play for N.A.E., Henkel's Organic Beauty Brand

Henkel’s organic-certified beauty brand N.A.E. (Naturale Antica Erboristeria) is piloting an Amazon-backed e-commerce project that features reduced packaging material and optimized supply chain methods.

July 7, 2020

E-commerce

Latin American CPG COVID-19 Response

Responses to the survey conducted by Mundo PMMI reaching 432 entrepreneurs and professionals from various CPGs in Latin America reveal uncertain and contrasting views of the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 6, 2020

Sustainability

WestRock Hires Senior Vice President of Science and Innovation

Smurfit Westrock

Rajiv Banavali was appointed Senior Vice President of Science and Innovation at WestRock Co. He will focus on building materials science capabilities that can be used as the basis for creating new products, processes, and services across the company.

July 6, 2020

Additives, coatings & inks

Chroma Color Corp. Acquires Epolin Chemicals LLC

Chroma Corp.

Chroma Color Corp.’s acquisition of Epolin Chemicals LLC, a manufacturer of near-infrared absorbing dyes and thermoplastic compounds, will help expands its product offerings in targeted growth markets.

July 6, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Five U.S. Packaging Bills Under Consideration

While each one of the five proposed bills taps into elements valuable to advancing a circular economy for packaging, none provides a complete strategy across the entire recycling system.

July 6, 2020

Shrink wrapping

EDL Packaging Names Director of Sales

EDL Packaging, a Massman Company

EDL Packaging, A Massman Co., named David O’Keefe Director of Sales at its Green Bay, Wis. location.

July 6, 2020