The ringing of the closing bell on October 17th at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was performed not by a human, but by a robot arm. The bell ringer, Universal Robots’ UR5e is a collaborative robot.
After conducting an industry leading package theft report last year, Shorr Packaging has released a 2018 report on package theft that is focused on Amazon package theft in cities across the United States. Last year, the company found that over 31 percent of all Americans had experienced package theft and it's expected to increase. In its latest report, Shorr analyzed Google search trends in the 50 largest cities across the U.S. to see where package theft is most concentrated.
Motion Industries Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, has acquired Hydraulic Supply Company, a full service distributor, offering customers a selection from over 8,000 hydraulic, pneumatic and industrial products.
Some buyers are complaining the bulky packaging for newly legalized cannabis is environmentally unfriendly, but producers say government guidelines are to blame.
StePac L.A. Ltd. has launched Xflow, a patented, functional, flowpack solution for blueberries as a cost-saving alternative to traditional preformed bulk packaging. Xflow meets market trends to reduce waste through the supply chain, save labor costs and use leaner plastic packaging.
Three days of onsite voting allowed PACK EXPO International and Healthcare Packaging EXPO attendees to be the ultimate judge of the most innovative new technologies at the show, dubbing seven exhibitors as the winners within their respective categories.
Beckhoff Automation further strengthened the company’s sales and application engineering presence on the West Coast by opening a 2,000-sq. ft. sales office in Carlsbad, Calif.
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