Articles & News on Packaging

Sekisui Plastics establishes Mexican operations with $7M manufacturing facility

  • August 9, 2016
  • News

The 61,000 square foot facility houses administration, customer service, and sale functions and will create around 80 area jobs.

Egemin Automation delivers E'tow floor conveyer system to Swiss logistics hub

  • August 4, 2016
  • Case Study

Egemin Automation has been awarded the job of delivering conveyor technology for Schöni's logistics area. E’tow provides throughput and warehouse process flows, will ensure that Schöni can handle its increasing volumes.

BW Container Systems installs 250th robot

  • June 7, 2016
  • News

The company has largely focused its robotic automation efforts on products such as case and bulk palletizing and depalletizing, destrapping, pallet unwrapping and can end automation.

Emerson delivers automation solution and energy savings to Tech Folien

  • May 25, 2016
  • Case Study

Tech Folien turned to Emerson official partner RJW, who designed and installed a motor solution which delivered energy savings of over 75%.

ABB to supply drive system to Kruger Packaging

  • April 7, 2016
  • News

ABB will deliver a complete engineered solution to Kruger Packaging for a paper machine rebuild project at Kruger’s Trois-Rivières Mill in Quebec, Canada.

Schneider Packaging opens Training Lab

  • March 31, 2016
  • News

The lab in Brewerton, NY, provides customers the opportunity to train on robots, PLCs and motors in a controlled environment.

Keyence vision system inspects data matrix codes

  • March 22, 2016
  • Case Study

H2M Technologies, a French company that builds packaging machines for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, uses Keyence's XG-7000 vision system for on-line inspection of statutory markings and data matrix codes.

Thermal imaging camera solves moisture/temperature requirement

  • March 1, 2016
  • Case Study

Michelsen Packaging used a Process Sensors PSC-450 Surveyor Thermal Imaging Camera for monitoring and controlling moisture in molded tray production.

ASCO Announces 2016 Industrial Automation Engineering Scholarships

  • January 12, 2016
  • News

ASCO will award two $5,000 scholarships to U.S. engineering students, provide $1,000 grants to their college’s engineering departments, and host the students at “The Amazing Packaging Race” at PACK EXPO International in 2016.

Universal Robotics supplies Artificial Intelligence to DePeuter Packaging

  • October 7, 2015
  • News

Flexible robotic packaging systems combine Universal’s Neocortex artificial intelligence platform with DPPS’ process control expertise using Yaskawa Motoman robots.