Packaging Automation
Bobst Group N.A. donates to the Int’l Corrugated Packaging Foundation
Bobst gives $50,000 to ICPF to support operations and initiatives.
Rotoflex Moves To New Toronto R&D Facility
Rotoflex, a leader in narrow and mid-web finishing leader invests in expertise and new facility located in Toronto.
The Big Picture
Aisling Tomei, Corporate Relations Manager, Big Rock Brewery Photo: Wiktor Skupinski Named after one of the world’s biggest boulders—a giant glacial erratic that landed 18 kilometers south of presentday Calgary, Alta., between 12,000 and 18,000 years ago—Big Rock Brewery may not carry the historical weight of this imposing, nine-meter-tall landmark that draws thousands of admiring ...
Multivac spotlights new technologies at Pack Expo 2010
Leading manufacturer of thermoform fill-seal rollstock packaging solutions, vacuum chamber systems, traysealers to showcase latest technologies at tradeshow.
Rockwell Automation Creates Extensive Industrial Networking Resource Library
Rockwell Automation Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., has added five new white papers to its extensive resource library on managing real-time control and information flow throughout the manufacturing and IT enterprise. The new white papers share guidelines, recommendations and best practices for topics crucial to ...
Schneider Packaging Now A Certified FANUC Certified Integrator
Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc., of Brewerton, NY, has been named a FANUC Certified Servicing Integrator (CSI) in FANUC Robotics’ network of authorized integrators. With Schneider as FANUC’s largest integrator in the case packing and palletizing segment in North America, having shipped hundreds of robots over the past three years, being recognized as a CSI ...
Beckhoff Automation introduces new food-grade servomotors
Dynamic AM3000 servo motors in new wash-down variant.
Organic Growth
A healthy mix of organic products and sustainable packaging keeps Montreal produce company in the green
Nuts And Bolts
Starting a new business in a new country and in a fairly mature market can be a pretty tough nut to crack, but overcoming the odds seems to come quite naturally to folks at the Laval, Que.-based Bassé Frères Alimentation Orientale Inc. (Bassé Nuts), a family-owned enterprise specializing in the roasting, blending and packaging of ...
Flexibility Rules
The general rise in living standards over the last few decades has vastly accelerated growth in the consumer goods production and, consequently, in the packaging and labeling of goods—putting growing pressure on today’s leading CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies to come up with new ways to serve consumers quickly, safely and efficiently with the most ...
Healthy Living
Healthy new lifestyle habits seem to be much easier to swallow when there’s good company around. And with a company such as Nutrisoya Foods, switching from milk to non-dairy, soy-based alternatives has never been easier for Canadian consumers who, for one reason or another, are unable or reluctant to consume everyday milk products. Dual-sport Canadian ...
German Firm Optimizes Efficiency With RFID
REHAU AG, a leading supplier of premium quality plastic parts for the automotive industry headquartered in Rehau, Germany, has begun implementing RFID (radio frequency identification) into its operations to optimize its production quality and logistics. Thanks to the utilization of RFID, the company is able to manufacture individually defined parts for customers rather than being ...
Automate is New Name For International Robots, Vision Motion Control Show
AutomateSM is the new name for the International Robots, Vision Motion Control Show sponsored by North America’s leading trade associations for these technologies. The show will be co-located at McCormick Place in Chicago, March 21-24, 2011, with ProMat 2011, the leading show for the material handling industry and logistics industry sponsored by Material Handling Industry ...
B&R Industrial Automation Launches New Packaging Expert Group for North America
In 2010 B&R Industrial Automation, headquartered in Roswell, GA, formed a new team of packaging experts to work closely with the packaging industry community. John Kowal, Tom Jensen, Joe Krogman and Marcel Voigt joined B&R in January as part of the strategic market development group. This team of automation experts will expand B&R’s activities in ...
Checks And Balances
As a leading co-packer of custom entrees and side dishes, Request Foods of Holland, Michigan, is always looking for new ways to improve productivity while maintaining the highest product quality. The company is a leading co-packer of frozen prepared entrèes, side dishes and specialty items delivering better solutions to retail, club store and foodservice customers. ...
Lifting Their Spirits
As empty corrugated cases are conveyed along the righthandside of the Motoman robot arm, the robot simultaneously places two filled bottles into the cases, with the packed cases then making a U-turn at the far-left side of the cell to return for palletizing.Photo courtesy of Motoman Robotics Heavy lifting may be fun when it’s done ...
Spreading The Joy
(From left)Tina Kalogrias,Vice-President; Christos Kalogrias, President, Arahova Inc.’ George Kalogrias,Vice-President, Research & Development.Photo by Pierre Longtin Sometimes, simply being the best in your chosen field is not enough. But it certainly wasn’t vanity or greed that prompted Laval, Que.-based restaurateur Arahova Souvlaki to dip its toes in the consumermarketplace—just the fact that burgeoning local demand ...
Tasteful Endeavors
(From left) Reza Shahbazi, Buyer of Raw Materials and Equipment; Frank Kolvek, Production Manager; Rana Denninger, R. Denninger Limited.Photo by Cole Garside While there is definitely nothing wrong with the old way of doing things, especially when producing European-style meat products with recipes demanding strict adherence to timeless tradition, there is nothing wrong with throwing ...