Secondary Packaging

Case packers provide production uptick at Royal Wine

Wine, spirit, and liqueur company installs new automated case packers that more than double its capacity, opening the door to co-packing opportunities.

July 18, 2013

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Contract Packaging

How to land the Big Ones

Upon his return from Vietnam in 1968, Tom Bacon got his start overseeing cosmetic co-packers for Max Factor & Company.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

CPA Welcomes new faces with a new board, new members

The Contract Packaging Association has installed its 2013-14 Board of Directors, which will serve the association through the current fiscal year, running from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

How your growing sophistication will fuel the contract packaging transformation

In recent weeks and months, I have become increasingly more aware of a significant shift that has been occurring for quite some time now in the Contract Packaging/Manufacturing industry.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

How to survive co-pack industry consolidation

Over time, the ownership of suppliers in the contract packaging, as well as contract manufacturing industry, has evolved.

July 18, 2013

Contract Packaging

Team approach to outsourcing brings new juice brand to market

Blending a business plan as unique as its all-natural juices, Fave Juice finds a novel approach to outsourcing—from packaging to full operations management.

July 18, 2013

Material handling

Redefining the outsourced supply chain

To state the obvious, contract packaging is rapidly evolving. Perhaps the hardest aspect of a co-pack partnership is finding the right fit in the first place.

July 18, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Festo: Heavy-duty toothed belt and ball screw electric actuators

Featuring recirculating ball bearing guides that help absorb lateral forces and torques, Festo’s EGC-HD (heavy duty) toothed belt and ball screw electric actuator also delivers the same high speed, response, and dynamic rigidity of the EGC model, and adds load-bearing capacity to its specifications–twice the load bearing of the EGC actuator.

July 16, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: Custom systems and components for additive manufacturing

Aerotech’s additive manufacturing motion systems include multi-axis, gantry, air-bearing, cleanroom, and vacuum-prepped; and its additive manufacturing components include linear, rotary, lift and Z-axis stages, goniometers, motion controls, drives, and motors.

July 15, 2013

PMMI News

Packaging World Sponsors PACK Gives BACK

“We applaud PMMI for their effort to give back to true American heroes,” says publisher Joe Angel.

July 13, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

GE: Monitoring & analysis software suite for industrial big data management and analytics

Comprised of six integrated products for industrial big data management and analytics, GE Intelligent Platforms’ new Proficy Monitoring & Analysis software allows companies to manage equipment and process data by captutring, storing, contextualizing, and analyzing data, provides access to data in the Cloud, and presents actionable insights for fast and effective decision making.

July 11, 2013

Material handling

CDC, UPS comment on vaccine delivery to Laos

A Q&A with Centers for Disease Control’s Dr. Joseph Bresee and Dimitri Zacharenko of UPS on shipping 100,000 influenza vaccines 5,000 miles in temperature-sensitive conditions.

July 10, 2013

Contract Packaging

GENCO co-pack operations become new business unit

Company employs 200-plus IT staffers to integrate ‘product lifecycle logistics’ more deeply into the co-packing value chain.

July 10, 2013