Containers

Urban style suits hair-care range

New packaging for the KMS styling and hair-care range, targeted at a new generation of urban and trend-setting professional stylists, is designed with a ‘raw sophistication’ concept in mid.

January 8, 2018

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Cartons and boxes

Three key issues facing the protective and transit packaging market

Three industry trends are providing incentives for innovation and are creating new opportunities and threats for players in the global protective transit packaging business.

January 7, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Nord Drivesystems: Industrial gearboxes

Nord’s high-torque series of industrial gearboxes, when combined with its industrial motors and drive electronics, provide a complete solution for conveying systems, mixers, agitators, and similar heavy duty applications, offering output torques up to 2,196,000 in-lb.

January 5, 2018

Protective/transport packaging

Signode Industrial Group acquires Packaging Design & Manufacturing, Inc.

Signode Industrial Group (SIG), a manufacturer of industrial packaging systems announced the acquisition of all shares of Packaging Design & Manufacturing, Inc. (PDM) a designer and manufacturer of custom foam packaging solutions.

January 5, 2018

Conveying & accumulation

Key Technology appoints senior director of North America sales

Key Technology announces the appointment of Ray Kramer to the position of Senior Director of North America Sales.

January 5, 2018

Conveying & accumulation

Air rinsing gets spiced up

When this Iowa spice company moved to a more contemporary and efficient air rinsing system for glass bottles in three different sizes, it also upgraded date coding and code inspection.

January 5, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Linear servo track adoption grows

Linear servo track systems free machines from fixed mechanical constraints, shortening changeovers and shrinking machine footprints while sometimes bypassing robotic options. As these technologies mature into second and third generations, adoption is ramping up

January 5, 2018

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Tin-ties meet automation

This New York coffee producer needed to automate the application of tin-tie reclosures to its bags of ground and whole-bean coffee. An ingenious and affordable machine was the result.

January 5, 2018

Additives, coatings & inks

InkJet, Inc. launches incentive program for international distributors

InkJet, Inc. recently launched an incentive program to reward international distributors that purchase InkJet, Inc. inks for resale.

January 4, 2018

Controls & Machine Components

Lenze Americas expanding board of directors

Lenze expanded its board of directors by adding a fourth member to the current three.

January 4, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable packaging and the Roman Arch

Of all the new buzz words in the world of packaging today, few are more prolific than “sustainable.”

January 4, 2018

Containers

Prefilled syringes, inhalers help boost global healthcare packaging market

Despite stringent regulations and infrastructural challenges within distribution networks, a new report predicts the healthcare packaging market will grow 8% annually through 2028.

January 2, 2018

E-commerce

Five packaging trends for 2018

Among them, packaging as a solution for global food waste, reinvigorated packaging for e-commerce, minimalistic design, and more.

December 31, 2017