The major expansion of its US headquarters in Oostburg, WI is underway; the project officially broke ground early this month with expected completion in July 2021.

Any trip to the supermarket reveals the latest trend in flexible packaging: stand-up pouches. Aisles are swelling with SUPs as big brands like M&M/Mars, Hershey, Kellogg’s and General Mills switch from lay-flat bags or bag-in-box to stand-up pouches.

Toshiharu Kageyama, mechanical engineer with Ishida Research and Development in Japan, was awarded the 62nd Kyoto Inventors Award for an oval-shaped 18-head multi-head weigher.

tna has officially opened a brand new, state-of-the-art Australian manufacturing facility to triple its production capabilities.

Wisconsin-based Matrix Packaging Machinery, a product brand of  ProMach, is in its 30th anniversary year. Willden brothers, Marcel and Marc, along with their father, Dee, started the packaging machinery company in the family’s garage in 1988. 

Matrix Packaging Machinery, a member of the ProMach family of brands, introduces the high speed Morpheus XL vertical form/fill/seal bagger, a new solution for accurately forming and filling narrow to extra wide bags of frozen poultry pieces at up to 120 bags per minute on one compact platform.