Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence award winner announced

PPi Technologies Group Wins 2019 Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence Award

Melissa GriffenContributing Editor

Jun 6th, 2019

The Florida Sterling Council and FloridaMakes collaborated on these statewide awards to recognize the state’s high-performing manufacturers. Companies were judged on six criteria categories: leadership, strategic planning, customers, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce and operations. The stakes were down to 33 out of 105 Florida companies. On May 31, 2019, the winners were announced: PPi Technologies Group won first place in the category of Independent Companies with 51-125 employees.

PPI Technologies

Depalletizer for Breweries

The Nimbus Half Height Depallatizer from Ska Fabricating is designed to support breweries of all sizes and distribution models.

Edl Twin Stream Bundler

Twin-Stream Shrink-Film Bundler

EDL Packaging’s twin-stream shrink-film bundler is designed to collate and securely bundle 3-, 4-, and 6-packs of shrink-wrapped bottles, allowing for faster shelf stocking at retail locations.

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Checkweighing Systems

Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection added FlashCell Load Cell Technology to its C-Series checkweighing systems.

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Unique FlipGuard™ dispensing closure delivers branding and safety

Unique FlipGuard™ dispensing closure delivers branding and safety

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The Massman Automation compact cheese block case packer packages 40-lb. blocks in protective cases for safe shipment and handling.

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Check out The Cobot Spot from Universal Robots

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TAB Wrapper Tornado Box Wrapper from TAB Industries.

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