Packaging Equipment & Materials

Graco’s Tank-Free Hot Melt System Reduces Adhesive Use and Downtime

See how Graco's InvisiPac melts adhesive on demand—eliminating char buildup, reducing glue consumption up to 30%, and improving uptime for high-volume CPG packaging lines.

March 9, 2026

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Liquid Processing

Fristam Pumps Introduces an Inline Mixing System for Efficient Powder-to-Liquid Mixing

Fristam Pumps USA

Learn how Fristam Pumps' PL Powder Dissolver quickly dissolves free-flowing powders into liquids using a forced-passage mixing principle to ensure rapid dispersion and homogeneous blending without clumps, waste, or excess processing time.

March 9, 2026

Facilities, Design & Infrastructure

E-book: Smooth vertical startups are built on fundamentals

Missed targets, rising scrap, reactive maintenance—startup dips compound fast. This report shows you how to avoid them.

March 6, 2026

Inspection

AI Visual Inspection Market Poised for Rapid Growth

Projected to grow from $2.1 billion in 2024 to $4.2 billion by 2031, AI-powered inspection technologies are reshaping quality control as manufacturers seek more adaptive defect detection and data-driven quality management.

March 5, 2026

Liquid Processing & Handling Equipment

Laub\Hunt Packaging

Norwalk, CA

March 3, 2026

Workforce

Middleby Names Mark Salman to Lead Food Processing Business as Chief Executive Officer Mark Bowie Named Chief Operating Officer

The Middleby Corporation

Current Food Processing president to assume CEO role upon completion of Q2 2026 spin-off.

March 3, 2026

Refrigeration, Chilling & Freezing Equipment

Sterling

March 2, 2026

Processing Equipment

Build for Change: Flexible Equipment and Modular Line Design

When adaptability is engineered into the process, change becomes part of how the plant operates, learns, and grows.

March 2, 2026

Workforce

Erich Inglin Joins Fristam Pumps as Application Engineer

Fristam Pumps USA

Inglin to support Fristam Pumps' customers and sales teams across North America with technical guidance, product selection, and troubleshooting for hygienic process applications.

February 26, 2026

Facilities, Design & Infrastructure

ESI Group Launches Strategic Growth Team for Food and Pharma-Cold Projects

ESI Group USA

ESI Group's cross-functional Strategic Growth Team aims to support early-stage capital planning by aligning market, technical, and financial insights to improve cost certainty, reduce risk, and guide projects from concept through execution.

February 25, 2026

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Real-Time KPIs and the Evolution of Food Plant Data

Lightweight system solutions are creating flexibility for plant managers to set relevant KPIs and expand the workforce. Midsize companies see lightweight solutions as a good first step for KPIs that collect safety, quality, delivery, and cost metrics, or overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) numbers.

February 25, 2026

Inspection, Sorting & Weighing

P&P Optica

February 19, 2026

Floor/Drains/Walls/Doors

Live from East: Drainage - From Afterthought to Food Plant Priority

Legacy drainage systems often mask serious sanitation and structural risks. A PACK EXPO East Innovation Stage outlined actionable steps to help processors minimize risk, maintenance burden, and downtime.

February 19, 2026