Packaging

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.

SOMIC America to provide GOYA Foods with a proprietary, retail-ready end-of-line packaging machine

Craig Funkhouser will leave his current role of CEO on Oct. 1, 2021, following his eight-year tenure leading the organization

State of the Industry U.S. Packaging Machinery Report by show owner PMMI shows packaging machinery shipments could reach $12.8 billion in 2026, growing at a CAGR of 5.2 percent.

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.

Packing stations must meet the demands of labor shortages, faster pacing and more demanding customers. Here’s how they do it.

Cubing and weighing equipment helps companies make better use of their warehouse space, cut shipping costs and reduce errors.

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.

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.

Automated package right-sizing allows shopgoodwill.com to save labor, meet customer needs, reduce materials waste, and build up associate skill sets in its e-commerce fulfillment operations.

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.

Sean Webb, Director of Automated Packaging Solutions at Quadient, a leading provider of innovative automated packaging solutions in the market that optimize all steps of parcel fulfillment discusses the benefits that automated packaging can bring to your fulfillment operation.

Show sponsor PMMI says registration exceeding expectations for in-person September show.

With all the talk about the rising consumer demand for recycled content, many companies are now thinking about how they can advance their sustainability strategies—and sharpen profitability—with more use of recycled content in all areas of their supply chain.