Cheese producer and supplier Jermi regularly supplies supermarkets with sliced cheese such as Gouda and Edam. Plastic blisters containing varying types of cheese are packaged in display cartons for this purpose. Jermi needed a new packaging line in order to make the existing production significantly more efficient.

The Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America Inc., a leading robotics company in the Americas, recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.

On the final day of Pack Expo Las Vegas, Packaging Strategies editorial director Kristin Joker sat down with PMMI President and CEO Jim Pittas to talk about challenges and opportunities, and how he plans to change what frustrates him most.

Packaging trends are already coming out for 2020. It makes sense, since they stem from the previous year’s designs, shifts in consumer demand and what the market is working on in the corporate realm.

Only one in five companies have fully integrated automation lines in existence today, igniting a growing competitive demand to adopt technology on the plant floor to deal with the uptick in market complexity.

The global servo motors and drives market was valued at US $9 billion in 2014, and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8% between 2019 and 2029, for a global value of US $28 billion by the end of 2029.

Packaging is a constantly shifting environment. However, unlike the rest of production, packaging processes have been slow to uptake new technologies. Thankfully, with the rise of developments in technology, like sensors, human-machine interfaces and motion control, flexibility of the packaging line is better than ever.

Blister Packaging for Certain Immediate Release Opioid Analgesics for Treatment of Acute Pain – Docket No. FDA-2019-N-1845 as it relates to opioid packaging, and recently passed Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients (SUPPORT) Act, passed in late 2018.

Food packaging plants face a host of challenges in terms of eliminating food waste, improving safety and increasing uptime. These challenges are heightened by a confluence of external factors including pressure on margins, responding to real-time demand, requirements to use sustainable materials and others.