Ireland-based food company Glanbia has implemented a print and apply solution from Zetes, which enables the company to meet the new customer requirement for full product traceability and highest possibility quality standards. Currently, ...
I may have been an English major with limited mechanical ability, but I love watching machines at work. It’s one of the reasons I get a kick out of shows like ProMat. It’s also a reason I like writing about automation. When ...
Tags: automation, inventory, efficiency
South Africa-based ADE labelling & barcoding has become the exclusive distributor of the United Barcode Systems (UBS) labelling systems in Southern Africa. ADE hardware director Bruce France said UBS develops and supplies the world's ...
Tags: labelling, barcoding, UBS, labeling systems, label
Global food supplier Huegli has installed a new gantry palletizer from Linkx at its plant in Redditch, UK. The palletizer has a modular design and handles outers of a range of powdered food products. The compact machine has a footprint of ...
Tags: Huegli, gantry palletizer, machine, automatic stretch wrapping
M&R is pleased to announce the addition of Challenger III D to M&R’s extensive line of automatic textile presses. M&R’s revolutionary Challenger III D, with groundbreaking Dynamic PrintStroke, brings a new dimension to ...
Tags: Market View, textile machine, automatic textile printing, textile market
Two Japanese firms are launching a Vietnamese factory to make wood-plastic composite building products and plastic pallets, hoping to use it as a low-cost export base for Japan and Southeast Asia. The two companies, Koei Vietnam Co. Ltd. ...
Apple and Philips have teamed up to sell iPhone-controlled LED house lights. Colour is widely-tuneable, and DIY install takes minutes. Called Hue, made by Philips, and only sold through Apple at the moment, the system is based around a ...
Tags: Apple and Philips, Lights, Lighting, LEDs
At three manufacturing facilities in California, Wisconsin and Florida, Precision-Paragon [P2] is building energy efficient lighting that can reduce the energy costs for lighting systems by up to 60 percent in commercial and industrial ...
Warehouses are large shops where general items are saved. Considering the area specifications of a factory, monitoring stock as well as raising the items into higher shares is only made possible with the aid of a device known as warehousing ...
Tags: learning center, Forklift, Trolley
The keynote speaker at the Street&Area Lighting Conference in Miami discussed the vital importance of SSL relative to the global energy crisis,and predicted that smart lighting will ultimately be connected in ubiquitous networks. Niels ...
Tags: Philips, SSL, smart lighting, the Street&Area Lighting Conference
Ongweoweh,an industry leader in pallet sourcing,implementation and management,announced the addition of Jim Bisha as Director of Unit Load Technology.Bisha,who is a native of Upstate New York,received his B.S.in Packaging Science from the ...
Tags: Ongweoweh, Pallets, Unit Load Technology, distribution packaging systems
The keynote speaker at the Street & Area Lighting Conference in Miami discussed the vital importance of SSL relative to the global energy crisis, and predicted that smart lighting will ultimately be connected in ubiquitous networks. Niels ...
Tags: LED lighting
Monday marked the opening of Supply Chain Advantage, the annual logistics conference in Park City, Utah sponsored by Dematic. If you operate a warehouse, distribution center or transportation department (sorry, competing vendors are not ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
KALAMA,Wash.—It was hotter inside the Bennu Glass factory than outside last week,but the workers here aren't complaining. The Port of Kalama facility made its first production-quality wine bottles last Wednesday,ushering in a new ...
Tags: Bennu Glass, Kalama, wine bottle, glass
PMMI,owner and producer of the Pack Expo trade shows,recently announced that Pack Expo International 2012(October 28-31;McCormick Place,Chicago),has sold out of exhibit space.The show will be the largest edition of the show since 2002,with ...