North American sales of machine vision components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other machines reached $2.874 billion in 2018, an increase of 9.2 percent over 2017 and a new record for the market.
For the first time ever, Gerhard Schubert GmbH took part in the Factory of the Year 2018 competition, and its Crailsheim site was awarded the top prize.
In a world shifting more and more toward e-commerce, packaging is increasingly the first tangible experience that someone may have with your brand or business. So how is your packaging delivering your brand’s promise to your customers?
PACK EXPO International and the co-located Healthcare Packaging EXPO take place October 14–17 in Chicago. The show will bring together more than 2,500 exhibitors and 50,000 packaging industry professionals covering 1.2 million net square feet of exhibit space.
ProPack Model Model PSST/120 product delivery system uses stepper servo technology to receive products from baggers, pouchers and flow wrappers to synchronize product delivery to high speed cartoning machines.
Bauer Gear Motor has expanded its in-house manufacturing capabilities by acquiring an aluminum die-casting facility in Italy, operating under the name Aluminium Die Casting SRL.
Dorner has completed a major expansion of its facility in Germany, a project that doubles its production space, adds jobs and effectively positions the company to become more responsive to its customers throughout the region.
BPA has named Andre Boom the new COO for BluePrint Automation (BPA) Americas. Boom spent the last 25+ years with leading snack food manufacturers such as Snyder’s-Lance, Pinnacle Foods and Quaker Oats.
