Robotics

Pneumatic Finger Grippers Are Paired with Cobots

Schmalz’ mGrip modular pneumatic gripper technology can be paired with a cobot for food and non-food-grade applications and can handle delicate or irregularly or variable-shaped products.

October 1, 2025

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Bagging & Pouching

Servo-Controlled Bagger Handles Premade Pouches

AlliedFlex Technologies debuts the servo-controlled Nexes premade-bag filler, which fills a range of bag types and sizes up to 5-kg in simplex or duplex, with rapid changeover.

October 1, 2025

Detergents/cleaners

CPG Clean Control Inspects its New Drop Packer on PACK EXPO Floor

Nic Bekkers at Clean Control says his company's new Serpa drop packer, a first for ProMach, delivers smooth, servo-driven performance with single-dial changeovers, ergonomic quick-swap grids, and 98% uptime—packing bottles of cleaner safely and efficiently while leaving room to scale production when its major retail customers say so.

October 1, 2025

Digital Transformation

IO-Link Compatible Flow Sensor

The SM Foodmag electromagnetic flow meter is IO-link compatible and IP69K washdown compatible, and can handle extremes in temperature and vibration.

October 1, 2025

Workforce

Beth Rennich Joins KDV Label as Business Development Manager

KDV Label

Rennich brings over twenty years of experience in sales and account management within the label and packaging industry to focus on customer base expansion and market growth.

October 1, 2025

Robotics

Chef Robotics and JBT Marel's Proseal Partner on Joint Solution for Meal Assembly

The joint solution combines Chef's AI focus and flexibility with Proseal's robust, high-quality tray sealing machines and packaging solutions to provide food manufacturers with a flexible end-to-end solution for their meal assembly and packaging needs.

October 1, 2025

Adhesives/tape

Keystone Tape & Automation

October 1, 2025

Bio-based

Pregis Opens Illinois Manufacturing Facility

Pregis

The facility is expected to divert an estimated 33,000 tons of waste from landfills as brands transition from plastic alternatives.

October 1, 2025

PACK EXPO

Community Poll: Sustainable Innovations at Pack EXPO

Find out what area of sustainable packaging innovations your peers were most excited about at Pack EXPO.

October 1, 2025

Recycling

APR Unveils New Tool for Full Packaging Recyclability Assessment at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR)

The APR Design Assessment Tool Powered by Recyda will help companies prepare for new EPR and labeling laws.

September 30, 2025

Sustainability

Recyda

September 30, 2025

Multipacking

New Bundler

Eastey Enterprises introduced a new shrink bundler that was bundling six-count bottles at 25/min thanks in part to B&R servo motors that provide a smooth push of bottles into film.

September 30, 2025

Case/Tray Packing

Unwrapper Machine

Polypack showed a machine designed to help producers of rainbow packs automate the removal of shrink wrap from wrapped trays of beverage containers.

September 30, 2025