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Bulk Bag Conditioner Returns Severely Agglomerated Materials to Free-flowing State
Ensures bags are thoroughly conditioned from top to bottom
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Schubert North America to Build New Headquarters
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Poultry Producer Combines Checkweighing, Metal Detection Operations
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PCMC Opens Packaging Innovation Center
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Former WestRock CEO Steven Voorhees Awarded PPC’s Lifetime Achievement Award
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Regal Rexnord Acquires Arrowhead Systems
Regal Rexnord’s strategic acquisition of Arrowhead Systems will expand its conveyor offerings into sub-systems, palletizing.
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Bag Filler with Densification System
Material Transfer’s Material Master® four post unit features heavy-duty tubular carbon steel frame construction for strength and durability and is adjustable for future bag size flexibility.
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Automation Drives Danone Variety Multi-packs in Mexico
Festo and Hybernya Industrial develop an end-of-line automated packaging solution for multi-packs for Danone and Danup yogurts in Mexico.
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Intralox Announces $60 Million Plant Expansion
Intralox is expanding operations at its Hammond, La., location. It is more than doubling its footprint, and the expansion will create 425 direct jobs as it expands its molding and assembly operations.
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Vacuum Conveyor
Piab introduces the piFLOW®am vacuum conveyor designed based on requirements from OEMs within the additive manufacturing segment.
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DTC Creates New Challenges for Secondary Packaging
Direct-to-consumer models require more durable secondary packaging, and considerations such as security, click-and-pick, and branding, also come into play.
E-commerce
Amazon Invests in Fit-to-Size Boxmaking Equipment Company
Amazon expects that the technology could reduce the cubic volume for each box by 24% on average and reduce the use of approximately 1 billion plastic air pillows by the end of 2022.
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How Bumble Bee Seafood is Transitioning Multipack Shrink Wrap to Recyclable Cartons
The company produces 26 million multipacks each year, and saw an opportunity to transition to more readily recyclable packaging through a partnership with R.A Jones.
Sustainability
Cannabis Comes Of Age
Packaging automation has advanced quickly in recent years with quite a few OEMs now offering smaller, slower machines targeted to this market. In materials, the sustainability wave is just starting to swell.
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New Packaging Formats Affect Secondary Packaging Process
Package configurations are changing due to retailer and consumer demands, with significant implications for secondary packaging.
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Nuspark Highlights Customizable Quality of Vertical Rotary Cartoner
The VRC-60, displayed at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, goes above and beyond cartoning with loading, printing, coding, inspecting, and other capabilities compacted into a single machine.
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Schubert’s North American Debut of Case Packer at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Successful
Schubert North America, part of the Schubert Group based in Crailsheim, Germany, successfully premiered its new case packer, the lightline carton packer.
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BW Integrated Systems Highlights User-friendly, Vertical, Flexible, High-level Palletizer
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, user-friendly machine meets customer and market demands with quick, vertical start-up.
PELV 2021
Strapping Machines Handle Washdown Environments
The SGP’s TüV certified stainless steel versions with IP 56 rating accommodate cleaning and disinfecting, while operating at speeds up to 65 plastic straps/min.
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Bunting Acquires MagDev
Bunting acquired MagDev Ltd., a UK-based magnet and magnetic assembly manufacturer. This acquisition will expand the range of magnetic solutions and technical expertise Bunting is able to offer as a global magnetics group.
PELV 2021
Fast-Changeover RRP Case Packer
A live, timed changeover demo illustrates the speed at which Delkor's LSP Series case packers can changeover between individually sized pouches in corrugated RRP cabrio cases, and larger club-store pouches in club-store corrugated trays.
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Dynamic First In, First Out Accumulation Balances Packaging Line Harmonics
A wide variety of CPGs can benefit from the AccuVeyor AVL from AmbaFlex, a dynamic accumulator that allows for the absorption and release of items between processes without any interruption, with true first in/first out accumulation functionality.
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Mobile Industrial Robots Teams with CSi palletising to Automate Material Transport Within CPG Facilities
The first offering includes CSi palletising’s infeed layer palletizer integrated with Mobile Industrial Robots' (MiR) new MiR1350 autonomous mobile robot to help fully automate the transport of heavy pallets of materials within CPG/FMCG facilities.
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Fully Fiber-based Tray, Carton Wrap, and RRP Case Packing Line Makes its Case on Material Savings
An innovative solution for food manufacturers, the Cluster-Pak® (CP) eMerge™ Combo is WestRock’s newest fully integrated system that enables a wide range of bowl and tray formats from primary tray packaging to tertiary SRP or RRP case packing.
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Cartoner Enables High-Speed, Recycle-Ready Packaging for Bumble Bee Tuna
This new paperboard packaging solution will help The Bumble Bee Seafood Company further its commitment to reducing ocean waste without sacrificing product quality.
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Universal Robots/Robotiq Integrated Palletizing System
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021, Universal Robots and partner company Robotiq demonstrated its new palletizing system for end of line packaging systems.
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Specially Designed Case Packer for GOYA Foods
SOMIC America announced at PACK EXPO Las Vegas that it has reached an agreement to provide GOYA Foods with a proprietary, end-of-line packaging machine for retail-ready packaging.
