Shipping major manufacturing equipment around the globe is no simple task, requiring significant logistics planning and coordination between manufacturers and suppliers. For Mayfran International, a Cleveland-based leader in scrap and material handling solutions, delivering its conveyor systems to customers in the same quality condition in which they left the manufacturing floor is a top priority.
At Drinktec in Germany, Lightweight Containers presented the first KeyKegs made from 10% used KeyKegs and a total of 40% recycled materials. This percentage will rise rapidly as the collection of used KeyKegs expands.
iGPS Logistics, a plastic pallet pooling service provider in North America, now offers the capability to deliver direct food contact level safety for its pallet customers. The revolutionary method applies a food contact surface sanitizer to iGPS plastic pallets, reducing contaminants by an average of 96%.
Pioneer of collaborative robots to showcase new cobot-assisted, mobile and modular tabletop system featuring vision-guided multiple part feeding and kitting with conveyor tracking and case loading/unloading.
The mini robotic pallet cell will be running in the ESS Technologies booth N-121 at the Healthcare Packaging Expo, co-located with Pack Expo, in Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 25-27, 2017.
At PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2017, Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase a customer project to produce and package granola bars on a fully integrated bar system, from mixing to palletizing.
The innovative Flex CTS twin-station stretch wrapper – one pallet being wrapped while a second pallet is already wrapped and ready for pickup – now offers the added benefits of more advanced control technology and upgraded stretch wrapping.
Communities with large numbers of residents who have only high school degrees or earn low salaries are at risk of losing many jobs to automation and offshoring, says a new report from Ball State University.
Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, announced that funds affiliated with the firm have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Duravant LLC, a global automation and engineered equipment company serving the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors.
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