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BluePrint Automation hires Southwest regional sales manager

Mike Rebollo will be responsible for serving BluePrint Automation customers located in California, Arizona, and Nevada.

July 10, 2017

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See how you can create an infinite number of soft gripper EOATs with just one kit.

The Soft Robotics Development Kit contains everything you need to set up and run your first Soft Robotics application in under an hour on your own current robotic system. By the time you’re finished, your eyes will be opened to a whole world of automated possibilities.

July 10, 2017

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How retail demands drive innovations in child-resistant closures

Watch this seven-minute video to discover how child-resistant closure innovations have been evolving in recent years, with expert input from Mold-Rite Plastics’ Robert Bartley and Dawn Nowicki. Variations in design and options in execution continue to expand due to 3% annual growth in the child-resistant closure market.

July 10, 2017

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How carton-sealing inefficiencies cost you—and how to eliminate them

Watch this six-minute video with Bradley Dunlap, Project Manager of Packaging at Shurtape Technologies, to appreciate the many “status quo” inefficiencies addressed by a comprehensive carton sealing solution. The right combination of tape and applicator technologies increases tape seal reliability, keeps packaging lines running longer and faster and delivers secure, tamper-evident carton seals.

July 7, 2017

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How film extrusion technology achieves optimum printability, machinability, strength, sustainability and shrink performance

Watch this three-minute video to see Pam Wools, Director of Technical Marketing at Coveris, outline how brands can reap rewards from the latest shrink and stretch film advances—both in shelf impact and cost savings. Duratite is ideal for multipack shrink bundling for plastic, can or glass packages, and Duralite protects unsupported nested case packs while eliminating trays and downgauging thickness.

July 7, 2017

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Fruit-shaped tea package wins awards

The package design for the T2 Mini Fruit Tea range wins first place in the Limited-Edition category at the Dieline Awards, among other awards.

July 7, 2017

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Will OMAC and OPC UA collaboration end the ‘fieldbus wars?’

At a recent meeting in Microsoft’s Copenhagen offices, more than 120 controls and automation professionals gathered to seek out ways of better aligning PackML and OPC UA.

July 5, 2017

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NGO actions may have real consequences

It might be basic physics: Push in on one side, and something sticks out on the other.

July 3, 2017

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Cake and pudding packaging gets glamorous redesign

Product packaging for U.K. supermarket Booths’ line of pudding and cakes taps into the Art Deco era to achieve a stronger identity within the teatime category.

July 3, 2017

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Interacting with consumers is key to successful package design

Scott Carpenter, Senior Associate Director–Innovation and Development at Bayer HealthCare, talks design, disruption, and Coppertone Whipped Lotion.

July 3, 2017

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Industry Watch—July 2017

A quick look on the latest supplier news, mergers, expansions, and people as listed in the July 2017 issue of Packaging World.

June 30, 2017

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Video shows why delicate products or high variability pose no challenge for soft-gripping robots

Carl Vause, CEO at Soft Robotics, explains how the Soft Robotics Automation system can gently and effectively handle products with a wide range of size and weights to accomplish even the most difficult of primary, secondary and order fulfillment packaging tasks. Watch this video to see how this technology can handle even the most delicate of objects.

June 29, 2017