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D2C Zenni Optical Eyes E-Comm Fulfillment Automation with Robot/Bagger Combo
Three robotic bagging systems are to be deployed at Zenni’s Northern California customer fulfillment center. The job description calls for visual acuity, precision, dexterity, and tireless work ethic. Robots have that market practically cornered.
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Coffee Bagging System
Bagging & wrapping
Bagging Pouching and Wrapping Playbook
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PAC Machinery to Exhibit at EXPO PACK México
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Standout Innovations from PACK EXPO East
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Live at PACK EXPO East: Flexible Packaging Machinery & Materials on the Brain
There was lots of interesting news on both the materials and machinery sides of the PACK EXPO East coin. We’ll look at a couple of pouchers and baggers and check out a commercialized monomaterial pouch for P&G’s Pantene Japan, done by Zacros.
Bagging & wrapping
Modular, Flexible Automatic Pouch Bagger
The AP-140 Auto Pouch bagger is designed to be a modular and flexible automatic vertical form fill seal (vf/f/s) machine with a clean and simple design.
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Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste
Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.
Bagging & wrapping
Rotary Vertical Form/Fill/Seal Bagger
The new Inspira from Ishida delivers up to 250 bags per minute, and uses an intuitive HMI.
Bagging & wrapping
Live at PACK EXPO East: New Sanitary Design Box Motion Flow Wrapper
The wrapper provides a high quality, tight seal, for difficult to seal films, while allowing for the machine to be disassembled for thorough sanitation and maintenance.
Bagging & wrapping
Sealed Air's Meat Packaging Automation Improves Predictability
New innovations in vision-based product identification, robotic bagging, vacuum, shrink, quality inspection, and more show how automation can help reduce labor needs and improve throughput, quality, and safety.
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Cognex In-Sight 2800 | Machine Vision Made Simple
Cognex In-Sight 2800 vision system enables users of all skill levels to use the power of deep learning to automate error detection. See for yourself by entering for your chance to win one of five In-Sight 2800.
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PACK EXPO Innovations Report: Sustainable Packaging
PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the sustainable packaging category.
Bagging & wrapping
Customized Option for Horizontal Automatic Bagger
PAC Machinery offers a customized air expeller option for its Magnum horizontal automatic bagger suitable for compressing, bagging, and sealing a variety of items.
Bagging & wrapping
Unique Blow-Fill-Seal Solution for In-House Blown PET Cups
Serac presented at PACK EXPO Las Vegas a Blow-Fill-Seal solution for yoghurts and desserts in PET/rPET jars. This solution, which combines an SBL linear blow-molding machine and a linear dosing machine, has been named CupBox.
Bagging & wrapping
Conflex Shrink Wrap Applications for E-commerce
The company showcased Clysar confidential film for e-commerce on its L-bar series wrapper at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
Bagging & wrapping
SACMI Cut and Wrap Machine for Double Twist Style
The company’s next-generation machine allows enhanced brand recognition and maximizes the use of electronics.
Bagging & wrapping
BW Flexible Systems’ Hayssen VFFS Machine For Intelligent Sanitary Bagging
This next-generation design of vertical form fill seal machines was developed through customer interviews for intelligent, sanitary bagging.
PELV 2021
Pat's Picks Podcast: Day Three Observations at PACK EXPO Las Vegas
Bag-in-Box for Pet Foods, a resealable aluminum can, a P&G mono-material refill pouch, more trayless ground beef, and a new way of splicing one roll of film to another—this and more in the Day Three Pat Reynolds Pack Expo podcast.
PELV 2021
Side-Load Bagger Orients Product
Swifty Bagger Side Load machine orients products in pre-made pouches.
Bagging & wrapping
Time To Try Trayless Meat in the U.S.?
At the Harpak-ULMA PACK EXPO Las Vegas booth, a key emphasis was on trayless ground meat backflushed with a mix of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Secondary/end-of-line
Integrated Line Illustrates Unified Upstream, Downstream System
Robotics and automation play pivotal role in providing flexibility for a full packaging line from Quest, a ProMach product brand, that includes bagging, case packing, and palletizing.
Bagging & wrapping
Flow Wrapper
Formost Fuji’s hygienic flow wrapping system is designed to package ground meat without the use of a foam tray.
Bagging & wrapping
Vf/f/s Bagger
Matrix’s Mercury high-speed vf/f/s bagger is capable of filling up to 140 flexible packaging bags/min.
Bagging & wrapping
Bagger, Combination Weigher Improve BBQ Wood Chip Production by 118%
With labor being tight and unreliable, improved automation was the answer for this popular BBQ wood chip brand. But it took a special combination of bagger and weigher to withstand the hot Texas heat, and stand up to a less-than-free-flowing product.
Sustainability
Mars Wrigley Develops, Tests Paper-based Packaging for Balisto Chocolate Bar
As brands eye fast-approaching, self-imposed sustainability deadlines, watch for interesting pilot projects to roll out. This European paper-based flow pack from Mars Wrigley's Balisto brand of snacks was developed with Syntegon.
Bagging & wrapping
Horizontal Flow Wrapper
Formost Fuji introduces the VX II horizontal flow wrap machine for flexible packaging.
