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Containers

Bottles preserve taste sensation

One of Poland’s largest apple juice producers, SOGO has selected a barrier bottle for its not-from-concentrate drinks.

March 18, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Encoder Products: Online 3D configurator

Encoder Products Co. has introduced a new online 3D Configurator tool for their most popular encoder models; the unit allows the user to customize select encoders to fit the desired application, including packaging, robotics, motors, or any other application where motion control is needed.

March 18, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Cartoner Efficiencies Help Contract Packager Satisfy Customers

Servo-driven unit reaches speeds of up to 400 cartons/min in a small footprint, helping QPSI put its supply chain discipline to work.

March 17, 2016

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Dordan re-accredited for ISO 9001:2008 certification

Dordan Manufacturing passes extensive on-site audit for ISO 9001:2008 certification.

March 17, 2016

Material handling

Cold Chain Market Worth US$234.49 billion by 2020

Providers focusing on adopting new technologies; cold chain viewed as a business opportunity in the next five years.

March 16, 2016

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Packaging machinery innovator “Red” Hamrick remembered

Luther “Red” Hamrick, CEO of Hamrick Manufacturing & Service left a legacy in the packaging industry.

March 16, 2016

Cartons and boxes

Fresher, more appealing look for Nutrisystem

Nutrisystem updates the graphics for its hundreds of food SKUs to reflect improved recipes, adding an easy-to-understand nutritional label and meal occasion color coding.

March 16, 2016

Controls & machine components

Pepperl+Fuchs: High-performance universal code reader

MAC335 Universal Code Reader quickly reads small and large codes at distances ranging from 20 mm to 300 mm.

March 15, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Japanese scientists discover a PET-eating bacteria

A new paper in the journal Science relates how a team of research scientists from Japan has isolated a bacterium capable of using PET as its major energy and carbon source.

March 15, 2016

Containers

Berry Plastics receives four FTA Awards

Berry Plastics receives multiple printing awards from the Flexographic Technological Association

March 15, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: NEMA enclosures

AutomationDirect added over 200 NEMA 4 and 4X enclosures and subpanels, in a wide variety of sizes, to their extensive Hubbell-Wiegmann line.

March 14, 2016

Controls & Machine Components

Sick: Safety encoder

DFS60S Pro certified safety encoder integrates safe motion into machine safety architecture.

March 14, 2016