Pat Reynolds

VP Editor Emeritus

The Fanuc robot has end-of-arm tooling that uses Piab vacuum technology to pick either heavy cases or tier sheets.

Vacuum Technology Solves Palletizing Challenge

While palletizing corrugated cases is a regular automation application, doing so in a cold room that is regularly hosed with water to stay clean is especially challenging.

The Bottling Plant in the Mountains

Sheikh Mohammed Mussallam describes what it’s like to build a brand new water bottling company, A&M Rare, in the remote Pambak Mountains of Armenia.

Pellets of ice move down the central “pant leg” and arrive on left and right electromagnetic vibratory feeders for discharge into insulated containers.

Dry Ice Feeding for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Equipment for dispensing dry ice into insulated containers holding COVID-19 vaccines had to be designed and produced by this OEM in just eight weeks.

When consumers scan the unique QR code on the back of the pouch, not only do they get verification that the package is authentic, they also get customized messaging.

A Whole New Connected Packaging Platform

A leader in digitally printed flexible packaging, ePac Flexible Packaging has launched a platform that leverages the power of digital printing to create serialized, trackable packaging especially suitable for small and medium-sized brands.

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This injection-molded packaging for cosmetics products is made from a copolyester with 30% certified recycled content.

Sustainable Cosmetics Packaging

South Korea’s Clio Cosmetics has launched its new Prism Highlighter Duo in injection-molded packaging made from a copolyester with 30% certified recycled content.

Electronic position indicators simplify size changeovers. The status LEDs light up green when the actual and target values match precisely.

Position Indicators Speed Changeover

Three packaging machines handling powdered milk formula rely on monitored size changeover using electronic position indicators with IO-Link interface.

An impressive example of what THIMM has been able to produce thanks to its digital capabilities is this package for a Danone Activia campaign executed in the Czech Republic.

Packaging Converters are Digging Digital

From a new approach to metallization to nanographic printing to digital laser scoring and cutting of printed corrugated sheet, converters agree that digital is the future.

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Mintel Has an Eye on Emerging Brands

Marla Commons, Vice President of Research for the Americas at Mintel, describes that market intelligence agency’s focus on startups.

New Kind of Tube Format

UFlex won two more Gold Awards (for Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging and for Packaging Excellence) as well as a Silver Award (for Technical Innovation) for its Flexitube Package.

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Flexible Film and the Circular Economy

Peter Fallat, Director of Global Design & Packaging at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a Colgate-Palmolive company, discusses how flexible films fit into the drive for more sustainable packaging.

AeroFlexx Named Top FPA Award Winner

Described as the “perfect e-commerce package” yet perfectly suitable for brick-and-mortar channels as well, the winner of the Highest Achievement Award in the 64th Annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition is AeroFlexx.

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More sustainable RRP format

Morrisons Supermarkets of the UK has re-launched its Best Bacon product in an improved Retail Ready Packaging (RRP) format.

This Lenor product and its ISBM PET container exemplify P&G’s tightly integrated development process, which enables the firm to move more quickly than in years past.

The Compass Steering P&G

Of course packaging is essential to the way P&G goes to market, but packaging is always designed and evaluated in terms of how it meshes with four other key business drivers.