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Report: Innovative New Machinery at PACK EXPO Connects

PMMI Media Group editors—covering a virtual event instead of an in-person exposition—divided and conquered to collectively take in as much of PACK EXPO Connects as possible. Here’s what they saw in the machinery category.

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Food Processing Sustainability Practices

How food processors are tackling sustainable operations. Watch this six-minute video with Bill Gill at Smithfield Foods as he chats with Joyce Fassl of ProFood World about Smithfield's 20-year, award-winning journey to sustainability.

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Confectionery Market 2020

Join Larry Wilson, VP of Industry Affairs at the National Confectioners Association, as he covers all the latest and greatest in the confectionery industry.

Dorner and SMC on navigating online trade events.

Embracing and Adapting to Virtual Trade Events

Dorner and SMC join the unPACKed with PMMI podcast to discuss best practices for online events like PACK EXPO Connects.

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2020 Snack Food Industry Outlook

Join Snac International at PACK EXPO Connects Innovation Stage to hear the current state of the snack market.

Using Beumer Smart Glasses provides operators with hands-free troubleshooting, and helps to mitigate the costs of a technician traveling to the customer site.

Smart Glasses Ease Troubleshooting Communication

Beumer has added augmented reality to the tools available to its customers while servicing equipment, enabling faster, easier support. The OEM even used the smart glasses technology to commission and install new equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dave Navin shares how Spee-Dee Packaging kept on keeping on during PACK EXPO Connects.

Overcoming Obstacles at PACK EXPO Connects

Spee-Dee Packaging shares with UnPACKed with PMMI podcast how it adapted when hurdles presented themselves and what the company will do to remain engaged with PACK EXPO Connects through March 31, 2021.

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COVID-19: Food Industry Worker Safety and Industry Response, with Joyce Fassl

ProFood World Editor, Joyce Fassl, delivers a two-minute executive summary of food worker safety during the pandemic.

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High Pressure Processing Helps Emerging Brands

Join Jeff Williams of Universal Pure, and ProFood World’s Joyce Fassl as they discuss high pressure processing and the shelf-life benefits it brings to brands seeking broader distribution and the importance of Cold Pressure Council certification.

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Amazon future of E-Commerce Packaging

See the PACK EXPO Connects 2020 Sunrise Breakfast Kickoff with Dr. Kim Houchens, Director, Customer Packaging Experience at Amazon as she takes your through all the touches your e-commerce package has to survive!

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Cannabis 2.0 -- Design, Engineering, Operations

Rarely does an entirely new industry emerge in packaging and processing, but the legalization of cannabis for medical and adult-use did just that.

Exhibitor Initiative Drives PACK EXPO Connects Achievement

The experience continues online through March 31, 2021

Eye-Flex conveyor belt is engineered for smooth product transfers between equipment.

Wire Belt Company of America: Conveyor Belt for Pasteurization

Introduced at PACK EXPO Connects is Eye-Flex for warming, cooling, and pasteurization processes.

This conveyor belt is a positively sprocket driven belt made for use in straight running applications.

Wire Belt Company of America: Conveyor Belt Maximizes Process Efficiencies

Ladder-Track introduced at PACK EXPO Connects.

Cascades’ Imgn Retail Solutions’ POS and displays are corrugated containers that use integrated print technology custom-designed

Cascades: Sustainable Systems at PACK EXPO Connects

Retail and packaging systems introduced as protective and sustainable options.

Dolav Alto 1400’s has strengthening ribbing, a reinforced belt and multiple snaps.

Decade Products: New Large-volume Bin at PACK EXPO Connects

The Dolav Alto 1400 bin, USDA-approved, is deisgned for the transportation and storage of meats and vegetables.

The hygienic design means that there should not be any cavities or dirt traps where unwanted material can get stuck.

Decade Products: New Hygienic Bin at PACK EXPO Connects

The Dolav 1120H Hygienic Bin is impact-resistant with a hygienic design.

Miss PACK EXPO Connects? No Problem

The November 2020 issue of Packaging World will have landed in your mailbox about a week after the industry’s most engaging 2020 event, PACK EXPO Connects from PMMI Media Group (PMG).

The machine is meant for easy format changeover, including between simplex and duplex mode.

SN Maschinenbau: Flexible Filling Machine

Introduced at PACK EXPO Connects is the SN All-In-One System is designed to accommodate various pouch sizes.

The FME 50 is designed for 2.4 kVA power consumption in operation.

SN Maschinenbau: Flexible Pouch-Packaging Machine

FME 50 introduced at PACK EXPO Connects is a and economical, low-entry machine model.

Colin Warnes, ADCO's director of sales engineering and project management, shows the company's 3D printed tooling.

Additive Manufacturing for Packaging Machines

ADCO uses selective laser sintering 3D printing to make machine parts.

HF/F/S Machine Offers Automatic Changeover, 140 pouches/min

The CMR II from Cloud, part of its CMR line of continuous-motion hf/f/s machines, completes changeover in just 15 minutes and requires just one tooling post for all bag sizes.