Recyclable Mono-material is Changing the Tide in the Industry, Making Flexible Packaging a Sustainable Resource By Ken Brunnbauer, Marketing Manager, Glenroy, Inc. If you’re familiar with flexible packaging — spouted pouches, stick packs, sachets, zipper pouches — you’ll know that it’s traditionally challenging to recycle. The main reason relates to flexible packaging’s multilayer plastic structures…
Read More >>Eco-friendly Packaging Materials are an Example of Peer Pressure at Its Best By Patrick Carroll, President of IMA Dairy & Food USA One of the food industry’s dominant legacy packaging materials, polystyrene, is on its way out. And that’s a very good thing for the health of both our planet and ourselves. Polystyrene has been…
Read More >>Four Key Considerations for Enriching Brand Experience and Meeting Consumer Demand By Joe Schewe, director of design and engineering at RRD The pandemic rapidly transformed consumer habits, creating major shifts in priorities for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers. Just as these businesses pivoted to address the abrupt rise in e-commerce orders, supply chain strains, and…
Read More >>Labor shortages, space constraints and increasing SKUs are driving up demand for automation of case tray packing. By Billy Goodman, Managing Director for Cama North America Having worked in the secondary packaging industry most of my life, I’ve seen tremendous change and progress, but also many of the same ongoing challenges. The current quandary we…
Read More >>Three reasons to consider replacing weighing systems with precision optical counting machines. By René Stuijt Business Manager, Industrial for Cremer Speciaalmachines B.V In packing consumer products, accuracy, quality assurance and customer satisfaction are critical. When handled properly, product is apportioned precisely and packaged correctly, avoiding costly and reputation-damaging errors. However, a prevalent practice in high-volume…
Read More >>Cobots Boost Palletizing Productivity, Address Labor Shortages and Protect Workers By Joe Campbell, Strategic Marketing & Applications Development at Universal Robots A/S Manual palletizing requires workers to bend, lift and twist for hours on end. Over time, this unergonomic task can cause repetitive strain injuries and musculoskeletal disorders, endangering worker health and driving up labor…
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