The market leader in collaborative robotics will show attendees at North America’s largest supply chain expo how cobots can automate new hard-to-staff palletizing and piece-picking tasks in new applications from partners including Mujin and RightHand Robotics.
Simple conversion for great flexibility: the new packaging alternative from KHS, that wraps beverage cans in paper instead of film, can also be retrofitted to existing Innopack machines manufactured by the Dortmund systems supplier. Customers can either opt for more flexibility by switching between film and paper packaging as required or permanently switch to paper.
Recyclable packaging solutions are increasingly in demand. However, due to a complex requirement profile, flexible food packaging often consists of combinations of different films and is, therefore, difficult to recycle.
Greater efficiency, lower costs, less plastic and still the same taste and convenience: When MULTIVAC exhibits at the two leading trade fairs, Anuga FoodTec 2022 (Hall 8.1, Stand C010) and IFFA 2022 (Hall 11.1, Stand B11), it will be showing a future-proof solution for packing thinly sliced or very sticky sliced products as part of a slicer line.
From May 14 to 19, GEA will launch the new spiral freezer GEA ProEdge Drive at IFFA (in Frankfurt/Germany, Hall 8, booth G20), the leading international trade fair for the meat industry.
ELGi Compressors Europe, a subsidiary of ELGi Equipments Limited, one of the world’s leading air compressor manufacturers, announced today that Boerschappen, an innovative, fair-trade food company in Breda, the Netherlands, selected an ELGi EN Series oil-lubricated screw air compressor for the packaging and boxing line in their newly expanded facility.
Leveraging proven flexo experience and recent innovative inkjet developments, BOBST is enhancing its All-in-One, All-Inline portfolio with the new DIGITAL MASTER series. The DIGITAL MASTER 340 and DIGITAL MASTER 510 will change the way label production is set up. They provide a fully digitalized and automated production line, from printing to embellishment and cutting.
A collaboration between Festo and PCE Automation has helped recyclable packaging experts Frugalpac Limited to achieve the high throughputs and precision assembly necessary to meet increased demand for its innovative paperboard Frugal Bottle.
During secondary packaging of bags of confectionery, manufacturers arrange bags in overlapping layers. Multi-axis pick-and-place packing robots align and pack layers of bags in preformed cardboard cartons.
Composite packaging waste and used beverage cartons contain valuable raw materials. Conserving these worldwide and reprocessing them again and again is an elementary prerequisite for sustainable environmental and climate protection.