International agreements

Pro Mach, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) has acquired Belcor Industries Inc. (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada).—Honeywell Engineered Applications & Solutions (Freeport, IL) has acquired the assets of Kohap Engineering Plastics Ltd.

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(Seoul, Korea).—Omega Design Corp. (Exton, PA) will become an exclusive North and South American distributor for Bauman (Barcelona, Spain) unscramblers.—Power Packaging (St. Charles, IL) has acquired a Sweet Ripe Drinks Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) hot-fill bottling facility.—Trexel Inc. (Woburn, MA) has entered into a licensing agreement with Arburg, Inc. (Lossburg, Germany) to supply injection-molding equipment with MuCell® foam technologies.—BarCode Express (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) has signed a letter of intent to purchase the internet start-up UPCSmart.com (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).—Modular Packaging Systems, Inc. (Pine Brook, NJ) has been appointed North American distributor for Rudolf Deckert (Schwabisch Hall, Germany).—MBP Associates (Green Bay, WI) has become the exclusive representative in North America for gravure labels produced by Dixie Toga (São Paulo, Brazil).—Nova Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Canada) announced its acquisition of Royal Dutch Shell’s (London, England) polystyrene business.—Elite Converting Machinery Ltd. (Taunton, U.K.) and Cameron Equipment (Taunton, United Kingdom) have combined to form Elite Cameron Ltd.

Modular Packaging Systems, Inc.

Nova Chemicals

Omega Design Corporation

ProMach Performance Services

Trexel, Inc.

Belcor Industries Inc.

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Scholle Ipn Surefill100 40 Flexible Packaging Filling Equipment

AlliedFlex Technologies and Scholle IPN Announce North American Sales and Marketing Alliance

AlliedFlex and Scholle IPN entered into a Sales and Marketing Alliance whereby AlliedFlex will offer Sholle’s IPN Aseptic Spouted Pouch Packaging Machinery and IPN Bag in Box Machinery program as part of its Flexible Packaging Machinery portfolio.

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Harpak-ULMA Announces Packaging Design & Prototyping Services

Harpak-ULMA announced a new suite of packaging design and prototyping services to help producers more rapidly and cost-effectively develop and operationalize innovative packaging concepts.

Liquid Filling Machine

Spartan Parts, a subsidiary of Fogg Filler Co., launches the SP-63 gravity liquid filling machine. Machine can fill liquids up to 40 bottles/min for a 250 mL bottle.

Machine Efficiency and the Impacts of Sustainable Packaging

Many primary packaging lines are no longer dedicated to a single product as SKUs increase, impacting line efficiency. Sustainable material changes may also create challenges.

Syntegon Kliklok Ace Carton Former

Carton Former Features Ergonomic Design and Increased Efficiency

Unit combines high-speed forming capabilities with a wide carton size range for greater flexibility.

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Flexible Filler/Capper for Vials and Small Bottles

ESS announces the FC Series flexible filler/capper for vials and small bottles. Model FC60 handles up to 60 vials/min and Model FC120 fills 120 vials/min.

Syntegon Virtuelle Messe

Syntegon Unveils Sustainable, Intelligent Machine Design

Following a major corporate rebranding, the food and pharma packaging OEM launches its first virtual show as a platform to introduce new products and interact with customers.

Combination Scale System Slashes Labor, Doubles Throughput

Beyond the expected speed- and labor-reducing benefits of a new combination scale and depositor system, benefits that came along for the ride included accuracy that significantly reduced giveaway.

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Syntegon Technology and BillerudKorsnäs Launch Joint System for Shaped Paper Pods

With the new TPU paper f/f/s machine from Syntegon Technology and the 3D formable FibreForm® paper from BillerudKorsnäs, a variety of shapes can be formed from paper for various food- and non-food applications.

Wraparound Labeler

Herma US’s compact 362E wraparound labeler is fitted with two Herma 500 applicators that, in two-sided operations, can label up to 200 products/min.

The tesla go contains no dynamic seals, allowing for a cycle life in excess of 1 billion cycles compared to a pneumatically actuated gun life of 25 to 50 million cycles.

New Hot Melt Applicator Ends Cartoner Downtime

Protein producer and packer replaces its pneumatic glue applicator with an all-electric model that significantly reduces hot-melt glue usage and spare parts, ensures seal quality, and eliminates downtime.

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Canadian Co-Packer Sold on Aseptic Packaging

Three aseptic fillers help contract filler Ya YA Foods produce high- and low-acid products, including plant- and milk-based dairy beverages.

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Massman’s GP-M3000 pouch filling system for products such as cannabis flower can be used to automatically open, fill, close, and seal stand-up pouches and can use a variety of reclosing features, including child-resistant heat-seal closures.

La Petite Bretonne’s Schubert lightline Flowpacker with Flomodul.

Pick-and-Place Robots, Flow Wrapper, Fuel High-Volume Bakery

With daily volumes in the millions and demand growing, this Canadian bakery automated what was once a manual process and is now hitting speeds of 280 product/min.

Container Handling System

Paxiom Group’s automated container handling system is designed to aid food and non-food businesses to easily weigh and fill products into rigid jars or containers, then cap, induction seal, and label jars before they are loaded into cartons.

Automatic full-pallet infeed capability ahead of the empty-can depalletizer is a recent addition to the range of equipment made by Ska Fabricating. Allagash was the first to install it.

‘Quality Conscious’ Canning

This Portland, Maine, brewery decided to “dip our toes in the can market” by installing a small filler/seamer. It quickly became clear that a 300 cans/minute line was going to be required.

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Global Pet Food Market Surpassed $94.6 billion in 2019

A new study from PMMI Business Intelligence, “Trends and Drivers Impacting The Pet Food Industry,” reveals North America is the top market for pet food, with an annual growth rate of 4.5% in the next five years.

Thermoformer Steps Up to Fight COVID-19

A notable feature on the CCA440+ plastic carrier handle applicator is the overhead carrier queue. It lets an operator load up multiple stacks of carriers in one go and then turn to other tasks as the carriers are methodically conveyed into the feed station.

Revolution Brewing is All In On Cans

Though glass bottles were once a part of the mix at this well-known Chicago craft brewer, recently it’s been all about aluminum cans in multiple sizes.

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Aseptic Filling and Closing Machine

NJM offers the Dara SYX-E-OR aseptic filling and closing machine for vials and bottles featuring direct drive servo-motion controls, a starwheel-driven design and a compact footprint.

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Weigh Filling Machine

WeighPack offers the PrimoLinear V-5 net weigh filling machine designed to automatically weigh and dispense a variety of food products from as little as 500 g to 10 lb into a single bag.

The semi-automatic RRA enables PCI to establish a flexible auto-injector assembly process with a minimum of downtime between batches.

Burgeoning Auto-Injector Market Demands Flexible Production Options

Injectable drug delivery is surging, and auto-injectors are helping patients self-administer more easily. PCI Pharma Services turned to an assembly machine from Syntegon Technology to provide the needed flexibility and scalability.

The complex structure of Roche’s cobas plasma separation card consists of a carrier layer with a bonded nonwoven fabric and an upper layer for protection and labeling.

Flexible Production Makes Roche’s HIV Test Innovation a Success

Roche designed a plasma separation card that greatly simplifies blood sampling and transport. Beckhoff Automation made production of the card cost-effective with its flexible, compact eXtended Transport System.

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Induction Cap Sealer

Enercon set new standards for unprecedented control and sealing performance with the innovative Super Seal™ Touch and new Super Seal™ Max.

Enercon's Super Seal Cap Sealer

Enercon Releases the New Super Seal Cap Sealer

Enercon says that it has set new standards for unprecedented control and sealing performance with the innovative Super Seal™ Touch and new Super Seal™ Max.

North Coast Seafoods packs its range of fresh fish filets in vacuum skin packs using thermoformed semi-rigid trays and a printed belly band for its case-ready package program.

Thermoformed Skin Packs Catch Attention, Hook Consumers

To accommodate retailers’ and consumers’ growing demand for case-ready skin packs of fresh fish, this seafood processor and packager turned to flexible, high-speed thermoforming equipment that makes sanitation easy.

Free Flow Wines President Rich Bouwer (l.), Chief Commercial Officer Heather Clauss, and VP, Operations Rob Perman

Co-Packer Dramatically Expands Wine Canning Capacity

In just two years, Free Flow Wines increases its wine-canning capabilities from one semi-automated line to three, adds a fully automated 300-can/min line, and triples its production space.

Inficon Contura S600 Nondestructive Leak Detection System

Leak detection equipment extends product shelf life

System reduces costly recalls