Cup/tray filling/depositing/sealing

As Café-Hatched Egg Bites Hit Retail Shelves, Vital Farms Reimagines Pack Design, Function

The foodservice channel gave us the egg bites trend with sous vide, but Vital Farms advanced it with a new retail pack format allowing for in-pack baking in CPET trays at the production facility. Consumers simply microwave the MAP trays at home.

August 16, 2021

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Robotics

‘Big Leaps’ in End-of-Arm Tooling for Robots

Advances in end-of-arm-tooling include increased agility and intelligence, especially for food and beverage packaging applications, and greater ease of changeover.

August 16, 2021

Conveying & accumulation

Unscramble and Accumulation with Binary Rotary Tables

Multi-Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor recently built an unscrambling rotary table and an accumulation rotary table that are connected by a 30 ft basic plastic straight running chain conveyor.

August 13, 2021

Secondary Packaging

Mettler-Toledo Announces Quick Ship Program for its Inspection Systems

Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection

Mettler-Toledo’s rapid Configure-to-Order (CTO) Quick Ship Program helps manufacturers meet product demand.

August 13, 2021

Robotics

Wyzo Sidebot to be Exhibited at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Wyzo

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #SL-6027! The Wyzo direct-drive pick-and-place sidebot will be showcased to the U.S. market for the first time at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

August 12, 2021

Robotics

New SCARA Robots Offer Ease of Integration, Programming

Among new offerings are an expanded line from Fanuc that has a compact controller with vision and conveyor tracking software and a single development environment from Epson for its IntelliFlex robots.

August 12, 2021

Robotics

Pick-and-Place Beyond the Case

Robotics suppliers are introducing a range of new pick-and-place solutions for applications other than case packing, such as product handling, feeding, and loading.

August 11, 2021

Cartoning

Cama to Highlight AR Benefits on Secondary Packaging Line At PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Cama North America

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #C-3614! Cama Group will demonstrate its augmented reality (AR) solutions on a fully integrated secondary packaging solution, featuring a CL169 side-load cartoning machine and FW748 wrap around case packer.

August 11, 2021

Robotics

More Flexible Robots Allow for More Case-Packing Options

New robotic equipment enables end users to address the growing range of case sizes, counts, and formats required by their customers with ease of programming and changeover.

August 10, 2021

Conveying & accumulation

Slideways to Exhibit Line of Standard and Custom Plastic Components

Slideways, Inc.

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #C 3704! Slideways’ booth will feature a full range of UHMW extruded profiles and guide rails in addition to other materials that meet FDA, USDA, and pharmaceutical requirements.

August 10, 2021

Robotics

Cobots for Packaging Offer Greater Reach, Payload & Flexibility

Among new cobot introductions are those that handle heavier payloads for use even with palletizing applications and a unique new machine that’s a cross between a delta robot and a cobot, called a ‘sidebot.’

August 9, 2021

Robotics

Six-Axis Robots Continue to Thrive

New introductions in six-axis, articulated-arm robots for packaging applications offer a longer reach, greater flexibility, and more options for robotic palletizing.

August 5, 2021

Cartoning

Schubert Will Present its lightline Carton Packer at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Schubert North America

See it at PACK EXPO Las Vegas Booth #SU-7651! Schubert will present its compact lightline Carton packer to a North American audience for the first time at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

August 4, 2021