Accu-Pak, Inc: Accu-Pak, Inc: Foam-in-place bagging

Flexible Products Co. (Marietta, GA) has introduced the AccuPak Menu Direct, a new foam-in-place bagging machine. The system allows the operator to choose bag length and bag-fill percentages at the touch of a button.

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Said to be the first machine of its kind to operate without a cartridge, this machine produces a polyurethane foam bag that cushions and protects during shipping. The AccuPak also uses low-profile fixed nozzles to dispense consistent and precise foam cushions.

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Tabletop Industrial Robot

FANUC America adds the LR Mate 200iD/14L tabletop industrial robot to its LR Mate robot series. It can process or handle parts weighing up to 14kg in the e-commerce and warehousing, food and beverage, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries.

Multivac, Inc. Opens State-of-the-Art Logistics Center

Multivac, Inc. opened a $11.2 million state-of-the-art logistics center in Kansas City, Mo., the U.S. headquarters of Multivac Group. The 33,000 sq ft addition houses 7,000 individual spare part SKU's.

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Morrison Container Handling Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Morrison Container Handling Solutions celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 1. Since 1971, the company has prided itself on providing the best solutions in container handling.

Wipotec Hc A V Checkweigher With Dual Camera Inspection

Checkweigher with Dual Camera Inspection

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #LS-6161! WIPOTEC-OCS will introduce to the North American market the HC-A-V checkweigher designed for a variety of consumer packaged goods, including food and beverage items.

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Checkweighers, Metal Detector for Harsh Washdown

Loma Systems launches the CW3 RUN-WET Combo system that is a combination of a checkweigher and metal detector and the CW3 RUN-WET is a standalone checkweigher system.

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We want to think “new” with you to deliver sustainable packaging solutions that benefit the environment and your business success. Together, we can make it happen. Sign up for our webinars, to learn about latest trends in sustainable packaging solutions.

The liquid filling system capably handles a wide range of product viscosities.

Spicing up the Packaging of Sauces Having Varied Viscosities

When demand outstrips food packaging capacity, new equipment is the best solution. But when product viscosities vary and flavors are superb, not just any machinery will do.

Hershey Brazil has capitalized on digital printing of flexible film as a way of celebrating female talent during International Women’s Day.

Hershey Celebrates International Women's Day with Digital Print Campaign

At Hershey Brazil, the #HerSheGallery transforms a chocolate bar wrapper into a celebration of women, as Hershey once again uses a digital print campaign to mark International Women's Day.

Marchesini Group Presents EXTRA, New Digital Platform for Clients to View Streamed Events and Visit the company Remotely

Further details on the new EXTRA platform will be revealed during an exclusive live show on April 29, 2021.

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X-ray Inspection System

Eagle Product’s Eagle Pack 720 PRO with material discrimination x-ray technology detects and rejects a range of contaminants, including glass shards, metal fragments, and some rubber and plastic compounds in plastic containers, cartons/boxes, and pouches.

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Joseph Allen Hall Jr., ESS Technologies, Passes Away

Joseph Allen Hall Jr. passed away on April 7, 2021, after his fight with cancer. He worked for ESS Technologies almost since it’s inception, joining the company in 1998 when the company moved its headquarters from New Jersey to Blacksburg, Va.

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We want to think “new” with you to deliver sustainable packaging solutions that benefit the environment and your business success. Together, we can make it happen. Sign up for our webinars, to learn about latest trends in sustainable packaging solutions.

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Fogg Filler Offers Cost-Saving Sanitizing Technology

Fogg Filler's closed-looped Ultrazone O4®sanitizing solution can perform at a 3 - 6+ log reduction, resulting in a near-aseptic rinse for bottles.

This x-ray inspection system now helps ensure that no foreign bodies make their way into the final packaged product.

QC Boost Through X-ray Inspection

This high-quality pet product company cares deeply about what’s in the packages it ships, so management made x-ray inspection part of a recent plant expansion.

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Craft Brew—Can Filling

One story heard time and time again from craft brewers is that when aluminum cans all of a sudden became a must-have format, the canning equipment they first installed to meet the sudden demand quickly proved inadequate.

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Void Fill Paper Cushioning Machine

Ranpak Holdings launches its PadPak Auto-Coiler void fill paper cushioning machine designed to create a sustainable, paper-based cushioning solution.

EDL Packaging Ships Shrink Bundler to Food Packaging Supplier

EDL Packaging shipped a Double Tight Wrap shrink bundler for molded pulp fiber beverage carriers and food trays to a supplier of food packaging materials.

Among the machines featuring the new heat seal bar technology is the FM 060 horizontal form/fill/seal machine.

New Tech Comes to Heat Seal Bars

This packaging machinery OEM is pioneering the use of a brand new method of making heat seal bars that is adapted from printed circuit board manufacturing.

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Mettler-Toledo Offers Testing of Products Prior to Purchase

Mettler’s application test center enables companies considering adding new inspection systems to their operations to test-run their own products on Mettler-Toledo systems to ensure they are choosing the correct systems to get the results they need.

Both standard wraparound cases and a retail-ready format are handled by the case packer.

Hartz Mountain liquid filling line upgrade features unscrambling through case packing

From unscrambling straight through to case packing, this versatile new line features filling and capping out of Italy and a small-footprint case packer from Germany for a variety of pet shampoo SKUs.

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Bell's Brewery of Kalamazoo, Mich., has made great use of its one-up seamer.

One-up Can Seamer Boosts Sales of Crowlers

The installation of a one-up can seamer has been a big help at Bell’s Brewery in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions that put a dent in the taproom business that the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based brewery has enjoyed for some years now.

The 14-station rotary filler runs at a steady 35 bottles/min when 750-mL bottles are in production.

Utah Distillery Opts for Bottling Upgrade

From hand filling and labeling to a fully enclosed rinse/fill/cork solution with a ‘de-dusting’ component, High West Distillery is making its mark in the whisky category.

The Innofill Glass DRS-ZMS filler handles 0.33- and 0.5-L returnable glass bottles.

Craft Brew—Filling

Recent developments, some in Europe and some in the U.S., show the varied approach to packaging that craft brewers are taking these days.

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Scholle IPN Acquires Bossar

Scholle IPN, a supplier of flexible packaging solutions, completed the acqusition of Bossar, a supplier of flexible hf/f/s packaging equipment.

Versynta FFP can be easily converted to different container types such as vials, syringes and cartridges, as well as different filling systems including single-use solutions.

Syntegon: Modular Small Batch Systems for Liquid Pharmaceuticals

Versynta FFP, Flexible Filling Platform, offers a unique transport system and safety for vials, syringes, and cartridges.

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Predictive Maintenance Pain Points in Packaging Machinery

There are specific packaging machinery needs related to predictive maintenance, and a new PMMI Business Intelligence report researched what is most prominent.

R.A Jones Debuts Automatic Magazine Loader for Cartoning Machines

R.A Jones’ proprietary carton correction technology is designed to offer diverse CPG manufacturers safe, efficient, and flexible production.

E-Pak Machinery Announces Expansion Plans

Indiana-based E-Pak Machinery Inc. will add 30,000 sq ft of space near La Porte Municipal Airport.

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Foresight Group Invests in M.R. Machine Knives

M.R .Machine Knives, a UK-based manufacturer of machine knives, secured a £4m investment from private equity firm Foresight Group to support its global expansion.

Brown Machine Group Acquires GN Thermoforming Equipment

Brown Machine Group’s acquisition of GN Thermoforming Equipment will expand its thermoforming product offering and market access.

Harpak-ULMA Bolsters Case-Ready Packaging Program

Harpak-ULMA is increasing its investment in case-ready programs to support the growing emphasis, fueled by grocery industry shifts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on case-ready fresh food packaging.

SencorpWhite and Urania Engineering Announce Partnership

SencorpWhite and Urania Engineering developed a strategic partnership that will link Urania’s engineering solutions with SencorpWhite’s technical expertise and broad service capabilities in medical heat sealers.