Controls & Machine Components

B&R: Safe encoder mount for motors

B&R is equipping its standard motors with a safe encoder mount, making them suitable for all safety applications.

October 11, 2019

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 571

Tamper-evident machinery

MMC Packaging Equipment: High-speed Closure Slitting, Band Folding Machine

The machine is engineered with Industry 4.0 attributes and features a six-camera vision inspection to meet quality objectives.

October 10, 2019

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

PamerPack: Filling/capping machine

PamerPack offers the FILCAP-X designed for packing liquids and capping small-size, unstable, non-standard packaging not suitable for conditioning in a linear system.

October 9, 2019

Converting equipment

More Digital Finishing of Corrugated

The rapid growth of e-commerce, among other marketplace forces, appears to be making digital finishing of corrugated packaging more appealing than ever.

October 9, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Diamond Award Finalist: P&G’s Liquid Tide Eco-Box

The Tide Eco-Box is the first product launch from P&G Fabric Care’s eCommerce Innovation Group. Dow’s Packaging Innovation Awards’ judges awarded the product a Diamond Award Finalist.

October 9, 2019

Secondary Packaging

tna Co-founders Appointed to Australian Society of Honor

TNA Solutions

Nadia and Alf Taylor, co-founders of tna, were presented with insignias commemorating their appointment as Members (AM) of the Order of Australia.

October 8, 2019

Operational Excellence

Outlook to 2030 in the Pharmaceutical Cold Chain

The Cold Chain Council met in Chicago last week to discuss future trends in the pharma cold chain, and digital transformation stands out as the key process.

October 8, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever to Cut Plastics Across Brand Portfolio by 2025, Commits to Circular Efforts

Unilever, owner of brands including Dove, Ben & Jerry’s, Lipton, and Omo has announced ambitious new commitments to reduce its plastic waste and help create a circular economy for plastics.

October 8, 2019

Flexibles

Polymer Packaging Partners with Windmoeller & Hoelscher

Polymer Packaging

Polymer Film & Bag has partnered with Windmoeller & Hoelscher (W&H), a world leader in blown and cast film extrusion technology, to install two three-layer co-extrusion lines.

October 8, 2019

Controls & Machine Components

Allen-Bradley: Motor controllers

Allen-Bradley introduces ArmorStart ST distributed motor controllers with integrated safety that can be mounted directly on a machine, allowing users to implement functional safety with fewer components.

October 8, 2019

Flexibles

Diamond Award Finalist: Danone-Nutricia Research’s OpTri-Collapsible Bottle

The OpTri bottle, says Danone-Nutricia Research, is next-generation packaging for Tube Feed nutrition, the liquid nutrition used by patients who are unable to obtain nutrition by mouth.

October 8, 2019

Flexibles

Polykar Adds Third W&H Multi-layer Co-extrusion Line

The new Optimex adds 7 million pounds to existing film production.

October 8, 2019

Containers

Five trends driving industrial packaging through 2024

The global industrial packaging market is expected to grow from $56.2 billion in 2019 to $66 billion in 2024. Learn what five key trends will drive this growth.

October 7, 2019