Crown Holdings Inc. has signed a 15-year Virtual Power Purchase Agreement to use wind power in all of its U.S. and Canadian beverage can plants starting July 1, 2020. 

Regardless of what they are made of or what they contain, all sacks can be handled with ease with Piab's ergonomic Vaculex vacuum lifter. 

What exactly does it mean? That’s what I asked myself recently when I was at the Automate Show in Chicago. Let’s explore this buzzword.

Allied Electronics & Automation has announced the addition of the new TM Series of Collaborative Robot (Cobot) from Omron to its product portfolio. 

Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm, has agreed to acquire Pregis LLC from Olympus Partners.

“Skills gap is worsening in U.S. manufacturing industry” paints a rather dire view on the state of manufacturing for the glass half-empty people, whereas the headline: “Addressing the skills gap in manufacturing” indicates that a more proactive problem-solving approach is occurring for the glass half-full crowd.

With automation, the cloud and new innovative printing solutions, there are many ways to create new and unique labels. Here, we cover an automation solution that boosted a label printer’s production by 50%, a label management system stored in the cloud, a barcode printer that prints a packing list and shipping label on a single label, and a new adhesive.

The Institute of Packaging Professionals has chosen 27 winners across 17 categories in this year's award program, including a student awards. 

Mpac Langen (Mpac) has launched a cartoner rental program that offers North American contract packaging companies a way to increase their productivity and agility.

It’s a problem that hiring managers experience all too often: A new employee who performed well during the interview ultimately fails to get results on the job. Then the hiring process begins all over again — and again.