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Operational Excellence

Mobile pharmacies help deliver life-saving meds

How do patients cope when hurricanes such as Harvey and Irma close pharmacies and potentially eliminate access to life-saving medicines?

September 8, 2017

Cartons and boxes

Chocolatier taps windowed carton to add gift-wrap look

Hardys opts for a windowed package made of three different substrates for a stylish finish.

September 7, 2017

Additives, coatings & inks

Sun Chemical to assess the market impact of devastation caused by hurricane Harvey

While the volatility of the supplier markets is unknown at this point, the inks and pigments markets will be affected.

September 7, 2017

Closures

Veritiv acquires All American Containers

The acquisition provides Veritiv additional marketing, selling and distribution channels into the growing U.S. rigid packaging market.

September 6, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

New digital tools help educate on plastic wrap and bag recycling

The Flexible Film Recycling Group releases two new online tools for consumers, recycling coordinators, local and state governments, and businesses to help grow PE film recycling.

September 6, 2017

Labels

AWT Labels & Packaging wins award in annual Gold Ink Awards competition

AWT Labels & Packaging won a Pewter Award in the Digital Printing, Labels & Packaging category.

September 5, 2017

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Automation driving blister packaging equipment market

Automation, facility modernization, efficiency and cost control factors combine to strengthen global demand for blister packaging machinery.

September 5, 2017

Case/tray packing

Beech-Nut completes redesign of infant cereal canisters

Beech-Nut’s popular baby cereal product has been in a paperboard carton for a whole lotta years, but now a coextruded newcomer with a built-in measuring cap has taken its place.

September 5, 2017

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

Bagging hops goes automatic

This Yakima broker used to buy hops pellets and bag them by hand. Now the firm takes in baled hops, mills its own pellets, and then packages the pellets with a combination scale and bagger.

September 5, 2017

Secondary Packaging

Latest packaging tech for coffee, tea capsules

Mitaca S.r.l., a coffee producer and marketer based just outside Milan, brings compression molding of PP coffee capsules in house and radically improves wrapping of tea capsules.

September 5, 2017

Cartoning

Craft beer can line leverages robotics

Depalletizing of empty cans, formation of pallet layers, and lifting of formed layers onto pallets are all done robotically. Elsewhere in the plant, another robot depalletizes reshippers.

September 5, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Mitsubishi Electric Automation: All-in-one Ethernet drives

Mitsubishi Electric Automation has announced the introduction of Ethernet-connected versions of its popular FR-A800 and FR-F800 Series variable frequency drives (VFDs), providing Ethernet connectivity as a standard feature, and allowing the drives to be connected directly to automation equipment and plant information management systems.

September 5, 2017