Controls & Machine Components

Lenze Americas appoints Mark Collins Director of Engineering

Collins joins the Lenze Americas business leadership team to support global inverter sales.

November 11, 2015

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Sustainable Packaging

With low oil prices, how are bioplastics faring?

Annual market data update on global bioplastics production capacities is presented at the 10th European Bioplastics Conference.

November 10, 2015

Material handling

Just-in-Time Global Logistics Program

QuickSTAT partners with Almac Group to develop a temperature-controlled packaging management system to strengthen their global supply chain.

November 10, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Chinese plastics associations join effort to reduce marine debris

Now part of the Global Declaration for Solutions on Marine Litter, the associations join 60 other organizations to help find solutions to keep plastics out of the ocean.

November 10, 2015

Containers

Beck's label gets premium treatment for new launch

Anheuser-Busch InBev combines a sophisticated label design with high-end printing techniques to deliver a new line of premium beers under the Beck’s brand.

November 9, 2015

Containers

KLW Plastics celebrates 10th anniversary

The company has grown from a one-machine startup to a multi-plant industry leader.

November 7, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Passion for package redesign

Hyland’s reaches outside its comfort zone to relaunch kids ointment in a sustainable paperboard dispenser.

November 6, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Liquid-tight connectors

RACO liquid-tight connectors are designed for use on flexible metallic liquid-tight conduit and Type B flexible non-metallic liquid-tight conduit in outdoor or indoor locations.

November 6, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: G-thread pneumatic fittings

AutomationDirect’s NITRA line of pneumatics products now offers G-thread push-to-connect fittings and flow control valves; components are made with strong thermoplastic (PBT) or nickel-plated brass bodies and stainless steel tube gripping claws and have a pre-applied O-ring to seal.

November 6, 2015

Flexibles

DS Smith Plastics appoints Kevin Grogan CEO of Flexible Packaging division

Grogan will oversee all of the company’s Flexible Packaging operations worldwide.

November 6, 2015

Robotics

Lightweight, Space-Saving Collaborative Robots

Universal Robots has designed collaborative systems to replace human operators in dirty, dangerous and dull jobs, yet it is safe to work side-by-side with people. The use of patented technology enables operators with no programming experience to easily set up the robot using 3D visualization.

November 5, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric shows off flexible automation for machine control

Segment marketing manger Mark Duncan walks through the systems on display at PACK EXPO, including PLCs for machine control with embedded web servers, an HMI controller and new wireless push button technology.

November 5, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation ties robots to the cloud

Daymon Thompson demonstrates how Beckhoff controls are running kinematic calculations on hardware while sending robot data to the cloud as another enabler of Industry 4.0.

November 5, 2015