Are your sourcing strategies ready for what comes next on The Rebound Podcast
December 17, 2022
Listen in as Skyler Covington discusses the sourcing strategies making a difference at Sonoco Products.
RPA opens call for entries on its reusable packaging award
March 23, 2022
11th annual awards, with submissions due June 15, include three categories for B2B reusable transport packaging achievement
Materials Handling Salary Survey 2021: Amid challenges satisfaction stays strong
November 9, 2021
Our annual salary survey for materials handling professionals asks about issues including pay, staffing trends, stress levels and job satisfaction. Even with pandemic disruption and robust e-commerce growth posing constant challenges, compensation and satisfaction stayed strong.
About that cannabis packaging system
November 8, 2021
From design to creation to shipping, this packaging system protects cannabis across the supply chain.
60 Seconds With… Randy Neilson & Stephen Pickfield of Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest (SLAM)
November 8, 2021
Randy Neilson is the chair of the Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest (SLAM) industry group at MHI. He is also president of Cubiscan. Stephen Pickfield is the vice chair of SLAM, and the co-CEO and director of sales and marketing for PSI Engineering.
Registration open for Pack Expo East 2022
October 15, 2021
Now in its fifth edition, the three-day event comes on the heels of a successful Pack Expo Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging Expo.
Maximizing Success when Converting to Reusable Packaging
October 5, 2021
Learn best practices including communicating your vision, change management ideas, finding advocates in your business, determining automation requirements, piloting a trial and implementing your program.
Packaging automation as a bottleneck buster
September 8, 2021
By deploying automated packaging solutions, operations can significantly reduce the labor needed compared to manual pack out. It’s about ensuring high and reliable throughput and reducing the worries of scaling up labor to handle peak seasons, while minimizing dim weight charges with package right-sizing.
Efficient packing is forward facing packing
September 8, 2021
Packing stations must meet the demands of labor shortages, faster pacing and more demanding customers. Here’s how they do it.
Cubing and Weighing: Right on the money
September 8, 2021
Cubing and weighing equipment helps companies make better use of their warehouse space, cut shipping costs and reduce errors.
La Colombe, Thermo King win 2021 Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award
September 8, 2021
Reusable packaging product and service suppliers Schoeller Allibert and Black Forest Container Systems (La Colombe) and Reusability (Thermo King) receive the award with their customers.
Paper packaging with a great rate of change
September 7, 2021
A highly flexible yet strong and stiff paper packaging material reduces packaging costs and shipment damage compared to conventional bubble pack. Bring in the sustainability of paper, and the rate of change just accelerated.
Is laser marking in your future?
August 10, 2021
Laser marking is already in place in the world of packaging, and it has the capability to mark items as diverse as automotive and aerospace parts and the common carton. That’s enough range to make laser a contender in the future.
A new take on dimensioning in the DC
July 14, 2021
Once confined to the shipping department, cubing systems are moving upstream to measure individual items and boxes as well as pallet loads to improve handling processes and cube utilization.
Pack Expo Las Vegas to reunite the packaging and processing community
July 13, 2021
Show sponsor PMMI says registration exceeding expectations for in-person September show.
Choosing the Right Recycled and Reusable Packaging to Help the Environment and Your Supply Chain
June 22, 2021
You have choices when it comes to packaging materials and in this webinar, we will walk through different materials and how it impacts your supply chain.
Virtual Enlace Expo Pack held for Latin American packaging professionals
June 18, 2021
Event brought together over 120 exhibitors, including 22 PMMI Members, and more than 7,500 attendees for this year’s most comprehensive online event for packaging and processing in Latin America.
BW Flexible Systems to open Technical Centre of Excellence
June 18, 2021
The center is part of BW Flexible Systems' expansion plans to better serve customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
CPA releases 2021 State of the Industry Report
June 17, 2021
The CP/CM industry is currently worth $75.6 billion and projected to continue growing at two-times the pace of the sectors it serves, according to the 2021 State of the Industry Report produced by CPA, The Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers.