Prepared & Canned Foods

Chef Robotics and ILPRA Partner to Deliver Flexible Automation for Meal Assembly and Packaging

Chef and ILPRA's solution uses AI-enabled meal assembly robotics and advanced packaging systems to handle high-mix production, improve throughput, and reduce labor demands.

November 14, 2025

Packaging Equipment & Materials

Prepared & Canned Foods

Raque Food Systems Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation in Industrial Food Equipment

Raque Food Systems

Raque Food Systems marks its golden anniversary and 30 years with PMMI with a legacy built on custom solutions for ready meals, bakery, and snacks and a commitment to future innovations in automation and performance monitoring.

October 21, 2025

Packaging Equipment & Materials

Economical Bagger for Dry Applications, Non-Washdown Environments

Triangle’s new Elwin vf/f/s bagger delivers stainless steel construction, easy washdown access, and versatile bag styles—all at an economical price point with domestic support and rapid ROI.

October 17, 2025

Packaging Equipment & Materials

High-speed Bagger

Introduced by Heat&Control was a high-speed Ishida bagger capable of 220 bags/min where bags contain typically 1-oz of product.

October 17, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: The Key to Effective Maintenance is Data

The key factor in maximizing uptime is data. Informed data helps to produce goods more productively across the value chain. By collecting additional data from the factory floor and combining that with other enterprise operational data, a smart factory can achieve information transparency and make better decisions.

October 15, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Upscaling the Automated Food Manufacturing Workforce

As machines take over the most repetitive and labor-intensive tasks, employees are empowered to take on responsibilities that require critical thinking, adaptability, and collaboration. In this future-forward environment, line workers become system stewards. Maintenance techs evolve into automation specialists.

October 8, 2025

Packaging Technology

Bertram Foods Improves Tracking Operations with Barcode Scanners

The New Jersey-based foodservice distributor is modernizing its tracking and traceability with upgraded barcode scanners.

October 7, 2025

Robotics

Chef Robotics and JBT Marel's Proseal Partner on Joint Solution for Meal Assembly

The joint solution combines Chef's AI focus and flexibility with Proseal's robust, high-quality tray sealing machines and packaging solutions to provide food manufacturers with a flexible end-to-end solution for their meal assembly and packaging needs.

October 1, 2025

Packaging Equipment & Materials

New Bundler

Eastey Enterprises introduced a new shrink bundler that was bundling six-count bottles at 25/min thanks in part to B&R servo motors that provide a smooth push of bottles into film.

September 30, 2025

Packaging Equipment & Materials

Unwrapper Machine

Polypack showed a machine designed to help producers of rainbow packs automate the removal of shrink wrap from wrapped trays of beverage containers.

September 30, 2025

Packaging Equipment & Materials

Laser Marking System

SQ-UVT Series UV laser marking system is an efficient replacement for thermal transfer printing.

September 29, 2025

Packaging Equipment & Materials

Selig Group Announces New GM, Americas and Leadership Reorganization

Selig Group

Selig Group appoints Shyam Kotak as the vice president and general manager of Americas, along with expanded roles for existing leaders Andre Oliveira and David Griffin.

September 11, 2025

Robotics

Soules Foods Serves as Proving Ground for Breakthrough Robotics

When the packaging team at Soules Foods saw its new case packing system in action for the first time, the reaction was unanimous: this was not just another automation upgrade. According to the company, it was something different—more compact and more intelligent than anything they’d seen before.

September 4, 2025