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

Digitized pneumatics boost OEE on pouch machine

Bosch Packaging Technology introduced a freely scalable pouching machine to food and pharma markets that features some remarkable pneumatics.

July 27, 2017

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Operational Excellence

Temperature issues affect clinical trials packaging

Dan Bell, Marken’s Vice President of Quality, Compliance and Technical Affairs, discusses pharmaceutical and biological clinical trials packaging issues.

July 26, 2017

Conveying & accumulation

Fast & flexible can packing

Contract beverage packer revolutionizes high-speed variety can packaging by automating cartoning/casing operations for broad range of can sizes, flavor varieties, and pack configurations.

July 26, 2017

Containers

Horse hoof polish gets stabilizing redesign to mitigate spills

SuperShine hoof polish takes its bottom-heavy bottle and distributes the weight of the bottle for the product’s newest package design.

July 26, 2017

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Accraply appoints new vice president of sales and marketing

Jeff Strobach joins Accraply from Barry-Wehmiller, where he was Director of Strategic Market Initiatives.

July 26, 2017

Secondary Packaging

PolyPack completes plant expansion

The new expansion doubles the company's production capacity and supports its vertically integrated production model.

July 26, 2017

Controls & Machine Components

Yaskawa America: Direct-drive servo motors

The new Yaskawa SGM7F line of direct drive servo motors delivers from 4 to 35 Nm of torque in a device as small as 2.1 in. high and 5.3 in. in diameter (53 x 135 mm).

July 25, 2017

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Single-dose packs pushing blister packaging growth

Material design improvements, medication adherence benefits, and advances in processing and packaging machinery key to increased pharmaceutical blister packaging demand.

July 25, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Pizza box converts to plates, storage box

Pizza restaurant in Connecticut becomes the first in the state to use an environmentally friendly, multifunctional pizza box that was featured on Shark Tank.

July 24, 2017

Containers

POTUS recognizes pharmaceutical glass packaging development

Merck, Pfizer and Corning’s collaboration on Valor glass packaging is praised for its potential to boost U.S. manufacturing job creation, innovation, improved access to medicines, and patient safety.

July 21, 2017

Conveying & accumulation

EXAIR’s New Catalog 31 Features new Safety Air Guns, Static Eliminators, Atomizing Nozzles, Air Operated Conveyors and Digital Flowmeters

EXAIR's new Catalog 31 is our best catalog yet; a full color technical guide offering solutions to common industrial conveying, cooling, cleaning, blowoff, drying, coating and static electricity problems. The greatly expanded Catalog 31 introduces new VariBlast Compact Safety Air Guns, Gen4 Static Eliminators, 1/8 NPT Atomizing Nozzles, Sanitary Flange Air Operated Conveyors and Digital Flowmeters with wireless capability.

July 20, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Sterling CPI: Positioned for growth

With a new 145,000-sq-ft facility and a significant investment in new equipment, Sterling Contract Packaging of Moore, SC, is equipped to expand its turnkey contract packaging services.

July 19, 2017

Contract Packaging

Co-packers recognized at Nulogy xChange

At its annual xChange user conference in May 2017, Nulogy revealed the winners of its PackStar Awards.

July 19, 2017