Edelmann USA Joins the Paperboard Packaging Council

Edelmann USA, Inc. (edelmannusa.com) has joined the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC), the North American association for paperboard packaging manufacturers and their suppliers. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany-based Edelmann GmbH, Edelmann USA was formed in June 2016 and has locations in Ontario, California and Pulaski, Tennessee. As a whole, the globally operating Edelmann Group employs more than 2,800 people in its 19 plants worldwide. The Edelmann Group designs and…

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AFM Relocates Operations to Corporate Headquarters in Brooklyn Park, MN

American Film and Machinery (AFM), a leading provider of shrink sleeve labeling equipment and consumables, is relocating its operations to the Company’s headquarters in Brooklyn Park, MN. Effective February 1, the current facility in Corona, CA will be closed and all AFM products will be shipped from Brooklyn Park, MN. “This is an exciting time…

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Maxwell Chase to Introduce Solution for Extending Seafood Shelf Life

Maxwell Chase (maxwellchase.com) – a CSP Technologies, Inc. company that specializes in extending freshness and enhancing food safety with its unique packaging solutions for the food industry – will debut SeaWell™ Seafood Trays, a first-of-its-kind active packaging solution that significantly extends the shelf life of seafood, at Seafood Expo North America in Boston, March 11-13.…

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Avery Dennison Introduces New, Sustainably Focused Wine and Spirits Label Constructions

Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials (averydennison.com) is adding two new label materials with sustainable facestocks to its Wine & Spirits Portfolio, each designed to help winemakers and converters address the growing consumer demand for sustainability. The company showcased these products at the 2018 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, in Sacramento, California, January 24 –…

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JLS Names Director of Integrated Systems

JLS Automation (jlsautomation.com) has named two new members to its team—Gary Pickett as Director of Integrated Systems Group and Justin Fredricks as Regional Applications Engineer. Pickett will oversee the company’s systems integration activity, including non-JLS built equipment to expand its complete solutions, including integrating new track transport systems. With a strong background in carton loading…

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Cosmoprof North America Announces Exclusive Collaboration with LA Fashion Week

Cosmoprof North America (CPNA; cosmoprofnorthamerica.com), the all-encompassing, award winning, business-to-business beauty event in North America, announces a special collaboration with LA Fashion Week (LAFW), the official fashion week of Los Angeles. CPNA, always seeks out innovative and complimentary collaborations, and has once again created a solid intiative never before done by a beauty exhibition. Recognized…

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New Software Is Built for Faster Pack Pattern Changeover

California Winery Experiences Speed and Ease of Use Since Installation. Submitted By: Schneider Packaging Equipment Traditionally, pallet pattern programming has been a set-it-and-forget-it standard that operators rarely update or upgrade. Typically, the native software is plenty reliable, but resistant to change. Creating a new pattern could require a technician, a laptop and, most importantly, time.…

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Choosing the Right End-of-Arm Tool for Robotic Palletizing

By: Stephen Gandy, Applications Engineer, Brenton Engineering, part of the ProMach family of brands End-of-arm tools (EOATs) for robotic palletizing come in all shapes, sizes, and price tags. Knowing what to look for in an EOAT speeds the specification process and leads to correct sizing and lowest overall cost. There are three basic categories of…

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Last But Not Least

A Look at End-Of-Line Equipment Trends, Challenges and Solutions. By: Elisabeth Cuneo, Editor End-of-line equipment, including palletizing, offers packagers speed, reliability, flexibility and productivity. What are the most important factors when considering a new machine, aside from cost? And which consumer trend is driving changes to these equipment, including the push for smarter machines? We…

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A Look at Today’s Labeling Problems and Solutions

By: Elisabeth Cuneo Labeling today faces different, and perhaps more complex, challenges than years past. Retailing issues, price point, and increasing competition on shelf lends the industry to look for more solutions to help ease the pain of labeling. So, what are the pains and how have these evolved over time? We asked Don Earl,…

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Measured Growth for Folding Cartons Through 2021

By Ben Markens, President, Paperboard Packaging Council Now that 2018 is here, it’s time to start thinking about 2019…and 2020. As business leaders, we always have to keep an eye to the future. One way we can to do this in the folding carton industry is with the Paperboard Packaging Council’s (PPC) recently released “Trends:…

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Busting the Myth Around Inkjet Barcode Printing on Cases

By Tim Stark, President, Abbott Company Every so often big box retailers issue a new requirement for suppliers outlining what is acceptable when it comes to the presentation of variable information on case-level packaging. Retailers push for standardization to minimize disruptions in how they move products from their distribution centers all the way to their…

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Case Study: When the Brand is Flawless, the Packaging Has to Be, Too

Submitted by Avery Dennison Take a beautiful Hollywood actress passionate about creating great hair days for women with textured hair. Then add an increasingly diverse U.S. population with a growing demand for beauty products focused on multicultural consumers. The result? Flawless™ by Gabrielle Union, a unique haircare line created specifically for textured hair needs. Available…

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Foodservice Cup Sales to Reach $5.4 Billion in 2021

Foodservice cup demand will grow 3.3% annually through 2021 to $5.4 billion, accounting for just under half of single-use serviceware demand. Beverage cups hold the largest share of this demand by far – over 90% of the total – with the remainder being portion cups. Beverage cups will post slightly faster growth through 2021. These…

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Jet Label to Hold Presentation on Cost-effective Labeling

Jet Label & Packaging Ltd. (jet-label.com), Western Canada’s largest producer of labels and printed tape for a broad range of industries, will deliver a presentation exploring cost-effectiveness in label manufacturing at Canada Health Foods Association’s CHFA West trade show in Vancouver. Titled Print Methods of Labels in Terms of Your Cost, the educational “lunch &…

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Wolfgang Puck Coffee Refreshes Brand Packaging

Wolfgang Puck Coffee® announces a rebranding to its coffee packaging. The innovative look and feel re-energizes the iconic Wolfgang Puck Coffee brand while continuing to provide an outstanding, award-winning coffee product. “We are very excited to unveil this new look for Wolfgang Puck Coffee,” says Ryan Stoulil, General Manager at Wolfgang Puck Coffee. “This industry…

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Global Flexible Packaging Market 2017-2023

The “Flexible Packaging Market: Global Industry Analysis, Trends, Market Size and Forecasts Up To 2023” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com‘s offering. The report predicts the global flexible packaging market to grow with a CAGR between 5.5% over the period of 2017-2023. The report on flexible packaging market is a comprehensive study and presentation of…

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Filling Equipment Market Outlook

Filling Equipment market research, from 360 Market Updates (www.360marketupdates.com), is provided on major factors such as consumer needs and changes observed in them over time, market sales in terms of value and volume, emerging opportunities, market growth trends, factors driving this market, threats associated with them and market performance of key vendors along with key regions. Industry…

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Point Five Packaging Introduces Automatic Sealing Machine

Point Five Packaging (p5pkg.com), a supplier of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) equipment and premium packaging solutions for various food industry sectors, has introduced the P5-A Automatic Seal System. Ideal for any food production or packaging environment – and configurable for manual as well as automatic operation – the machine produces vacuum-gas flushed MAP containers, vacuum…

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Antares Vision to Open Software Development Center in Ireland

Antares Vision (antaresvision.us), a leading provider of serialization-based track and trace solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, and manufacturer of precision inspection machines for 100% production line verification of pharma products, will establish a Software Development Center in western Ireland’s Galway Technology Centre. The facility, which will create more than 50 jobs in computer vision and…

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