Beumer Group has fundamentally re-engineered its high-capacity layer palletiser, Beumer paletpac. It now provides better accessibility, a shorter assembly period, higher flexibility and, as a result, lower costs. In high-performance lines, ...
Tags: layer palletiser, Packaging
Double and triple bagging bulk meat containers results in high levels of packaging waste. CHEP Pallecon Solutions’ new liner ensures food safety with a single bag. The bags are produced with multiple, ultra-thin layers within a ...
Tags: bulk meat, ultra-thin layers, Packaging
Global automation supplier Swisslog is celebrating the recent sale of its 1,000th AutoStore robot. The autonomous robot, which sits on the top of an aluminum grid as part of the innovative storage system, was sold to Competec as part of ...
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The Pacific Maritime Association, which has been negotiating with the Intl. Longshore & Warehouse Union on a new labor deal for 13,600 West Coast port workers for more than six months, today accused the ILWU of orchestrating work slowdowns ...
Tags: PMA, Sporting Goods
Commissioned by Petainer, the manufacturer of PET containers,the poll found that of those businesses that were considering adding one-way PET kegs to their marketing mix, around two-thirds wanted to unlock new markets such as export, new ...
Reusable packaging producer Tosca has launched a reusable plastic container (RPC) for packing, shipping and displaying individual cartons of eggs. Featuring the SmartWall design, the package is said to help in simplifying re-stocking and ...
Anchor Packaging, a manufacturer of rigid packaging, will add the new three-compartment 9” to its Gourmet Classics line of hinged RPET containers. Designed to keep the food fresh and appealing, the new product is best suited to pack ...
Tags: Anchor Packaging, Rpet Line, Printing
Polyolefins additives supplier Milliken and Company will showcase innovative ways to enhance the look of polypropylene (PP) products along with solutions to protect the contents of PET packaged food, beverage and consumer products at ...
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The K-cup coffee pods discarded in 2013 would have encircled the globe 10 times. Coffee pod sales have more than tripled in the last three years. Nespresso published a corporate backgrounder in March 2011 stating that 12,300 cups of ...
Tags: K-cup coffee, Nescafe Coffee
ThyssenKrupp Stahl-Service-Center has invested in a blanking line, enabling the company to produce very small blanks. With the new machine, ThyssenKrupp will be able to cut slit strips measuring 0.4 to 3 millimeter thick and lengths ...
Tags: Thyssenkrupp, Blanking Line, Printing
Global reusable packaging solutions provider Ifco Systems has entered into a partnership with Sealed Air to ensure that all IFCO reusable plastic containers washed with the latter’s product, Diversey (detergents and disinfectants) ...
Tags: IFCO, Food Safety, Printing
GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
Tags: Domestic Market, China, Decoration
A few months ago, Schubert was approached by a German cosmetics company to build a TLM packaging line to cartonise aerosol cans. Schubert was also able to make it adapt automatically to can size changes. If the TLM robots require another ...
Tags: packaging line, aerosol cans
Retail imports into the U.S. are forecast to total 1.53 million containers in October, up 6.4% and topping the 1.52 million monthly record set in August when monthly imports rose 2.1%. Sep. imports increased an estimated 2.8% to 1.48 ...
Tags: Retail Imports, Sporting Goods
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for September 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with September 2013. US Class I railroads originated 1,190,431 carloads ...
Tags: rail traffic