Controls & Machine Components

Controls collaboration clicks

By leveraging a broad range of controls and automation components from a single supplier, APPE comes up with a continuous-motion bagger boasting ultrasonic sealing and high output.

August 26, 2015

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Containers

'Nano'-sized wine bottle brings quality and class

A new single-serve wine option is clamoring for its share of the market in an increasingly robust category. Sileni Nano, from New Zealand winery Sileni Estates, not only capitalizes on the trend of small-size wine packages, but also on the exploding popularity of New Zealand wine in the U.S.—especially its Sauvignon Blanc.

August 26, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Robots enhance packing & palletizing operations

Three packagers replace manual packing and palletizing processes with automation to address issues of worker safety, package quality, speed, efficiency, and cost.

August 26, 2015

Containers

Stock serum pack keeps Drunk Elephant line cohesive

For its new eye serum, Drunk Elephant Skin Care looks for packaging that will complement its existing product line while offering consumer convenience and shelf appeal.

August 26, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Enhancing shipping case print quality/flexibility

Ambriola Company, West Caldwell, NJ, a subsidiary of Auricchio S.p.A. of Cremona, Italy, is an importer of Italian specialty cheese brands, including Ambriola, Auricchio, Colombo, Locatelli, Gran Moravia, and Luppi Prosciutto di Parma.

August 25, 2015

Filling/capping, dry

Accuracy in complex filling

When small amounts of an ingredient need to be blended into a rice, grain, or dry baking mix product, accuracy and reliability are an absolute must. Honeyville gets just that with its auger fillers.

August 25, 2015

Material handling

Three primary cold chain packaging pain points and priorities

Along with preventing temperature excursions, three priority issues are regulatory compliance, reducing costs, and emerging markets.

August 25, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Axon appoints new Latin American support manager

Jose Arroyo will support Latin American sales and utilize the resources of the new Pro Mach Shared Services business.

August 25, 2015

Robotics

Controls platform makes robotic pouch transfer sing

The newest pouching and cartoning lines at Medifast get a boost from a delta-style robot. But the real story is the sophisticated controls platform that ties everything together.

August 25, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Five-minute changeover for cartoner at wafer maker

Swiss wafer manufacturer Kägi Söhne swaps outdated equipment for a top-load car toner that offers significant flexibility and quick changeover for its range of packaging sizes and styles.

August 25, 2015

Labels

Labels drive cross marketing

Extended-text labels have established a strong foothold in pharmaceutical applications because they provide ample space for the sometimes lengthy regulatory information that is common in the pharma space.

August 24, 2015

Additives, coatings & inks

INX International's state-of-the-art food packaging inks

INX offers a full range of low-migration products that include high-performance sheetfed inks, UV/EB flexo and offset inks, UV hybrid inks for flat-sheet metal decorating, UV/EB curable coatings, and more.

August 24, 2015

Flexibles

Global flexible packaging market set for rapid growth

Food is projected to account for almost three-quarters of global consumer flexible packaging consumption in 2015, with meat, fish, and poultry accounting for the largest usage food sector.

August 24, 2015