Recycling

The Connected Package: Consumers Want to Know Your Story | Technical Workforce Development Trends Within Manufacturing

Consumers want more from their brands and no package can hold the entirety of your brand's story. QR codes can unlock your brand experience. Also on Take Five: NAM initiatives reach out to minority communities to fill the demand for a quality workforce.

August 20, 2021

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Additives, coatings & inks

Spartech Promotes Jiang Li to Technology Manager, Innovation Center

Spartech Corporation

Li will be responsible for leading a team of engineers and support staff on novel product development, customer sample orders, material evaluation, and cost savings projects.

August 20, 2021

Robotics

Motion Controls Robotics to Launch Industrial Software Department

Motion Controls Robotics

The new department will help Motion Controls Robotics’ customers connect production and front office.

August 20, 2021

Robotics

Renato Maia Joins Columbia Machine, Inc.

Columbia Machine, Inc.

Maia will assist Columbia with the business development and market expansion of its palletizing and robotics business in Brazil.

August 19, 2021

PMMI News

Go "PACK to the Future" at PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO

Take a journey through the evolution of packaging and processing and see what the future holds.

August 18, 2021

Sustainability

Graham Packaging Names Richa Desai Director of Sustainability

Graham Packaging

Desai will lead company's internal and external sustainability efforts.

August 18, 2021

PMMI News

Making Easy PACK EXPO Connections with New PACK Match

Attendees can take advantage of brand new, complimentary tools to plan their visit and connect with the packaging and processing suppliers that fit their individual needs.

August 17, 2021

Robotics

E-commerce Poses New Automation Challenges

Two new robotic technologies help address e-commerce related packaging issues, including a reduced labor pool, the need for speed, and sorting of intermixed products.

August 17, 2021

Operational Excellence

Packaging Serialization: Are You Ready to Exchange Master Data?

Watch this Take Five video to learn how, with limited time left to onboard, experts urge pharmaceutical manufacturers to begin testing and sharing traceability data with distributors ASAP to meet DSCSA requirements.

August 13, 2021

Flexible packaging

Printpack’s Williamsburg Plant Receives VPP Star Certification

Printpack

The facility was approved as a Virginia STAR Worksite under Virginia’s Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), the agency’s highest level of recognition for excellence in safety and health management systems.

August 13, 2021

Material handling

Importing Cannabis Packaging? Make Sure Your Packaging Suppliers Know the Industry

From the Cannabis Packaging Conference West in Anaheim: With U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the hunt for what they deem to be 'paraphernalia,' packaging suppliers must be aware of nuance in describing what products are coming into the country.

August 13, 2021

Sustainability

Michael Reed Joins Spartech as VP, Business Management, M&A & Sustainability

Spartech Corporation

In his new role, Reed will be responsible for business managers and general managers within Spartech’s new business teams.

August 12, 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