Conveying & accumulation

Morrison’s Nancy Wilson earns National Women’s Business Enterprise Certification

Wilson has been CEO of Morrison Container Handling Solutions since 2012, and its sole owner since 2013.

May 24, 2016

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Axon appoints Marc Keller as Electrical Controls Engineer

Keller will participate in an interdisciplinary effort to improve customer responsiveness and manufacturing efficiency.

May 24, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Kollmorgen: Standalone motion controller

Kollmorgen introduces the Programmable Controller Multi-axis Master (PCMM), a motion controller that meets a broad range of OEM requirements for a wide range of machines.

May 24, 2016

Conveying & accumulation

Bunting Magnetics appoints Kevin Bowen to Advisory Board

Bunting Magnetics Co. taps manufacturing industry veteran Kevin Bowen to help plan strategic growth.

May 23, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Legislation proposed to standardize food date labeling

The current range of food date labeling systems on packages causes consumer confusion, resulting in food waste. Legislation seeks to standardize wording for clarity.

May 23, 2016

Containers

Special bottle commemorates a special race

Woodford Reserve®, the Official Bourbon of the Kentucky Derby®, once again honored this year's "Run for the Roses"™ with the release of a Kentucky Derby commemorative bottle.

May 22, 2016

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Suppliers show a lot of skin at IFFA meat show

Packaging technologies enabling extended shelf-life, preservative-free, and convenient meat, seafood, and ready meals dominate IFFA 2016. Big among them: Vacuum Skin Packaging.

May 22, 2016

Flexibles

Printpack announces CEO transition to Jimmy Love

Current CEO Dennis Love will continue on as Chairman of the Board.

May 20, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Compact variable speed drive

Schneider Electric has launched the Altivar 320 machine drive; it offers a powerful combination of safety, reliability and simplicity with numerous out-of-the-box features for building more effective machines at optimized build costs, and meets the needs of simple or complex machines from 0.25 hp to 20 hp.

May 20, 2016

Closures

Tekni-Plex unifies Tri-Seal brand for closure liner business

All of Tekni-Plex's liner manufacturing companies will do business as Tri-Seal going forward.

May 19, 2016

Containers

'Pharmaceutical-style' packaging for bottled cannabis beverage

House of Jane introduces compliant cannabis glass-bottled beverage packaging for Northern California medical market.

May 18, 2016

Plastics/resins

Braskem America announces new CEO Mark Nikolich

Mark Nikolich brings 25 years of polyolefin and olefin experience to his CEO role.

May 18, 2016

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging Association names three new directors

Rob Reinders, Jon Hayward, Tom Landry: New-but-familiar faces join CPA board of directors.

May 17, 2016