McCullagh Coffee has used cellulose-based NatureFlex films from Innovia for packing its new Ecoverde Coffee brand. The film, which takes life as wood, breaks down in a home compost bin or industrial compost environment at the end of its ...
Tags: Recyclable Films, Coffee Packs, tri-laminate type structures
European manufacturer of plastic packaging solutions Plasticum has developed a new lightweight 65mm over cap, Sunshine, for customers in the technical aerosol market. The new cap is layer-packed automatically by a robot, which leads to a ...
US-based Stapleton-Spence Packing has announced the addition of a full sleeve shrink labeling system as part of enhancement of its bottling production line. The new vertical system can label up to 450 bottles per minute. According to the ...
Tags: sleeve shrink labeling system, bottling production line, vertical system
Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/30/2012 7:10:00 AM Bob Evans Food Products introduces Breakfast Bakes, the simple goodness of breakfast in a hand-held hash brown, now available in the freezer section of ...
Tags: Breakfast Bakes, breakfast, hash brown, freezer
Tetra Pak has announced the acquisition of the business of New Zealand-based Sealing Technology, for an undisclosed amount. Tetra Pak said the equipment will be offered as a retrofittable version for existing lines or as Tetra Pak ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, sealing technology, equipment
Ilapak Cartoning Systems (ICS) has announced the relocation of carton machinery production to its other North American facility, Delta Systems & Automation based in Rogers, Arkansas, US. The growth continued along with limited space of ...
Tags: carton machinery production, cartoning equipment, Rogers facility
Germany-based Poly-clip System has introduced the clip-tube, a new packaging as a cost-effective alternative to tubes. The clip-tube is a tubular package clipped on each end, supplemented by an extrusion nozzle on a threaded end piece and ...
Pregis has unveiled its foam-in-place packaging technology for the European market that is powered by its IntelliPack solution meant to act as cushioning system for automotive parts, valves, areospace and marine products and various tools ...
Returnable transit packaging (RTP) company PHS Teacrate, a part of the PHS Group, has invested considerably in tooling from Rehrig Pacific UK, manufacturer of plastic packing goods, which will enable the company to now exclusively ...
Tags: Tooling Equipment, plastic packing goods, transit packaging
Nestlé has also opened a CHF16m($16.52m)facility in Luanda,Angola,a move which will strengthen the company's presence in Africa. This investment is a part of the company's three-year program launched in 2010,which aims at investing ...
Tags: Nestlé, investment, beverage, brand
Research tends to either confirm hypotheses or reveal surprises. In the case of a recent study conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Intermec, it was a little of both. The survey base of 250 supply chain, warehouse and distribution ...
Tags: cost savings, chain, warehouse, distribution
US-based ADCO is introducing a new small-footprint Robotic carton/case packing system with integrating forming, product loading, and closing all in one unit at Pack Expo 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. The Encompass features two FANUC robots, ...
Tags: packing system, critical functional, packaging machinery
Ireland-based high speed packaging machinery specialists Tekpak Automation has provided snack food manufacturer Largo Foods( part of the Intersnack Group), with a robotic pick and place solution for loading bagged snack products into shelf ...
Tags: Automation's Packaging Solution, bagged snack products, Largo Foods
Adept Technology, a provider of robots and autonomous mobile solutions, has introduced ClamPAC Robotic Packaging Automation Cell for case packing clamshells. The company noted that Packaging Automation Cell - which is a standardized, ...
Tags: robots and autonomous mobile solutions, case packing clamshells
UK-based Linkx Systems has introduced the VE series of tray erectors from Siat UK. The tray erectors were designed for end-of-line packaging applications and to meet the user's needs of compact and reliable machinery with throughput of up ...
Tags: Packaging Applications, Ve Tray Erectors, Linkx Systems