SOMIC Group, the parent company of SOMIC America, has acquired MechanikZentrum Schmidbauer, a mechanical manufacturing company in Haag, Germany.

The packaging machinery market is seeing an uptick in demand for rental machinery. There are three key drivers of this trend: flexibility, cost and return on investment. Continuously evolving consumer demands and the explosion of SKUs means that flexibility is paramount, particularly in the food and beverage markets.

Sabri Demirel has just been appointed new managing director of Romaco North America. He succeeds Charles Ravalli, who retired in April 2019. 

Based in Culver City, California, the new office boasts 6,000 sq. ft. for engineers, researchers and local staff to work and develop new products.

Woods is charged with creating and implementing expansion strategies for the company’s e-STUDIO multifunction printers, thermal barcode printers, network document solutions, point-of-sale products and more.

 JLS Automation has named Jeremy Rothermel as Northeastern regional sales manager. He will report to Mike Newcome, vice president of Sales.

The Food & Beverage Innovation Forum 2019 (FBIF2019), was held in Hangzhou International Expo Center in China on April 23, 2019. The forum, themed as “Gaining New Momentum from Open Innovation,” focused on the new format in the food industry. More than 120 global speakers and 4,000+ decision-makers from 700+ leading companies were in attendance.