The goal of any trade show exhibitor is to stop attendees in their tracks in just 5 seconds, before they take a few more steps and are gone. But how do you do that? I’ve found in my years of trade show experience there are 5 ...
Tags: demonstration, guard up, target market
Ball reported second quarter 2016 net earnings attributable to the corporation of $369m, or $2.54 per diluted share on sales of $2bn, compared to $160m of net earnings attributable to the corporation, or $1.13 per diluted share, on sales of ...
Tags: Rexam, Metal Beverage Packaging
Glatfelter reported second-quarter 2016 net income of $2.0m, or $0.04 per diluted share compared with $2.8m or $0.06 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2015. Adjusted earnings for the second quarter of 2016 were $2.8 million, or ...
Tags: Glatfelter, Specialty Papers
Silgan, a supplier of rigid packaging for shelf-stable food and other consumer goods products, reported second quarter 2016 net income of $33.3m, or $0.55 per diluted share, as compared to second quarter 2015 net income of $42.2m, or $0.70 ...
Tags: rigid packaging, shelf-stable food
Corrugated packaging firm Caps Cases has purchased HP Scitex 11000 digital press to expand its printing capabilities. The HP digital machine, which is installed at the firm’s Newmarket headquarters, can print 500m² per hour in ...
Domino continues to innovate and provide label printers even more in the world of digital printing with the announcement of a hybrid solution the MPS EF SYMJET powered by Domino. The EF SYMJET is a symbiotic combination of a flexo press ...
Tags: Domino, Hybrid Label Printing
Robots are no longer the unyielding, one-task giants doing humans' dull and dangerous work. The new breed can perform more than one task and work alongside humans without being a physical threat. As a result, manufacturers across industries ...
Tags: Next-Gen Robots, Robots
The corrugated trays allow fruit and vegetables to extend shelf life when compared with reusable plastic crates (RPCs), according to a research by Italy's University of Bologna. The research found that corrugated trays reduce the risk of ...
Tags: Plastic Crates, Fruits
The Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) released figures collected by the Physical Activity Council showing that in 2015, 34.9 million American children (ages 6-17) were classified as ‘not active to healthy standards,’ ...
Tags: SFIA, healthy standards, sports
US Senator have reached a bipartisan deal for mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in packaged foods across the country. The proposal was introduced by Senate Agricultural Committee members Sen. Pat Roberts, R- ...
Tags: GMOs, mandatory labeling
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has launched two packaged linear power amplifiers ...
Tags: MACOM, power amplifiers
The Australian Government, together with private enterprise, plan to build Australia’s largest inland container terminal at Moorebank NSW. For the past seven years the proponents of the proposal, Moorebank Intermodal Company Ltd & ...
Nikola Motor Company founder and CEO Trevor Milton announced that the company received $2.3bn in reservations in the first month. This adds up to more than 7,000 truck reservations with deposits. The company announced last month that it ...
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has provided its CIS solar panels for a 'solar sharing' experiment on Sado Island, Niigata ...
Tags: Solar Frontier-CIS, thin-film, PV modules
New Solution, a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partner of Memjet, has integrated the new Memjet inkjet printing technology into a new wide format packaging solution, NS Multi. The new wide format printer, which has been ...
Tags: Multi-Layer Printer, Drupa 2016