Secondary Packaging

Frozen burger giant installs robotic top-load carton equipment

Electronic vision-guided pick-and-place system significantly improves overall carton packing efficiencies.

November 1, 2017

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Containers

Glass jar reflects happiness

When this German maker of jams and marmalades launched a new line of fruit spreads, management wanted a custom-designed glass jar for on-shelf differentiation.

November 1, 2017

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Open-source—‘the way the future is being built’

As of early this year this OEM began delivering friction feeders that relied on open-source programming rather than relying on proprietary, self-made microprocessor controllers.

November 1, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Bimba: Compact hydraulic actuators

Bimba has launched the Compact Hydraulic series of actuators, a product line that complements the company’s existing NFPA hydraulic products by offering significant space savings without sacrificing performance.

November 1, 2017

Sustainability

Combo plastic/paperboard sleeve cups

Distinctive single-serve cottage cheese packaging stands out in refrigerator case.

November 1, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Pepperl+Fuchs: Incremental rotary encoders

The new BlueBeam technology for incremental rotary encoders with optical sensing principle increases efficiency when generating signals.

October 31, 2017

Containers

Eco Pack Systems: Produce containers

This shipping container, made of food grade material, reduces shipping costs, improves hygiene, and enables customizable point of purchase branding.

October 31, 2017

Containers

Taplast: E-commerce dispensing system

The pump is equipped with a folding and locking nozzle, which completely prevents accidental opening of the pack until the time of the first use by the consumer.

October 31, 2017

Labels

Domino receives ‘Company to Watch’ award at Digital Packaging Summit 2017

There were 35 sponsor companies eligible to win the award, and Domino was selected by the attendees of the event.

October 31, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Replace costly labels with a 5-inch-high, precision inkjet print area

You can now print high-resolution graphics, logos and codes with two synched inkjet print heads that deliver reliably sharp results at 5.6” high.

October 30, 2017

Sustainability

Marks & Spencer, Nestle, and Mondelez embrace circular economy

Major European CPGs are striving to improve, but infrastructure gaps and poor recycling rates hamper efforts.

October 30, 2017

Closures

Beverage caps, closures market boosted by healthy beverage growth

Study points to the shift in consumer preferences toward healthy beverages, primarily water, and outsized gains in developing markets as the drivers for greater cap and closure growth.

October 29, 2017

Containers

Winery photographs bring Four Winds brand to life

A rebrand for Four Winds Vineyard’s wine labels uses photos taken at the winery, depicting simple items—sheets, dandelions, and pinwheels among them—blowing in the wind.

October 28, 2017