Pat Reynolds

VP Editor Emeritus

The new line at Kutol handles plastic bottles ranging from 1-oz to half-gallon sizes.

New Filler Boosts Capacity

Installing a fifth filling line will help this leading manufacturer of commercial skin care products address the current demand for hand sanitizer and meet future customer needs.

Equipped with 42 filling nozzles, the Fogg filler handles 1-L as well as both 700- and 750-mL glass bottles.

Maker’s Mark Ups Its Packaging Game

When it came time for a packaging line upgrade, this well-known producer of bourbon tackled filling and capping first—coding, inspection, and case sealing quickly followed.

Bringing ABB's robotic automation to the process of making Zume's compostable packaging is poised to bring the benefits of this sustainable packaging technology to manufacturing plants around the world.

Big Boost for Compostable Molded Pulp?

Transitioning away from single-use plastic packaging is now widely accepted as a global imperative, and that transition may have gotten a big boost thanks to a recently announced collaboration.

PACK EXPO Las Vegas: Day-Three New Technology and Innovations Findings

After three days of wall-to-wall coverage of PACK EXPO Las Vegas, packaging veterans Pat Reynolds and Jim Chrzan check down a list of new trend and technologies found at the show on this Take Five video.

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Freshly wrapped paperboard trays of fresh sausages emerge from the cling film application system.

Breakthrough in Compostable Film

Management at this family-owned third-generation producer of classic British sausages is hoping its efforts on the sustainable packaging front will be copied globally.

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All-Paper Blister Pack

Starview Packaging and Rohrer have teamed up to introduce a rotary blister pack machine that actually erects a paper blank thanks to some extraordinary tooling and great precision in the scoring and die-cutting of the paperboard blister.

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AR Facilitates Preventive Maintenance, Boosts OEE

Augmented reality was front and center at the booth of CAMA, as Sales Engineering Manager Davide Di Lorenzo demonstrated how any operational benefits can be gained through this advanced technology.

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Pat's Picks Podcast: New Vision System, Trayless Ground Meat, ‘Walk-thru’ Case Packer

PACK EXPO Las Vegas was jam-packed with innovation. Spotted by Packaging World Editor Emeritus were a new integrated approach to code validation, trayless ground meat in an MAP flow wrap, and a remarkably flexible case packer with a walk-through feature.

With the launch of the R-Series, Domino now offers not only marking and coding equipment but systems to inspect codes, too.

Coding and Inspection from One Trusted Source

Highlighted at the booth of Domino Printing Sciences was the new R-Series range of smart vision systems for automatic inspection and validation of product codes, including date codes, batch numbers, bar codes, and 2D-printed codes.

This screen save shows how customers using Llumin software can know the status of specific pieces of equipment in real time no matter where they are located.

CMMS Specifically for OEMs

Exhibiting for the first time at PACK EXPO, Llumin, an established participant in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) space, introduced a new software called Llumin for OEMs.

XTS greatly reduces jams and downtime as it moves perfectly stacked pizzas into cases. Shown here is a freshly erected case on the right and two stacks of pizzas about to be pushed into the case on the left.

Flexibility, High Throughput on Pizza Case Packer

The M2000 case packer does the work of three machines, erases downtime and excess mechanical parts, and delivers big on flexibility and throughput.

Either carbonated or still water can be filled on the glass line.

Hi-tech Bottling Comes to Remote Armenian Mountains

A&M Rare’s new, ultramodern bottling plant seems almost surreal in a place where unspoiled scenery and mountain grandeur are on full display.

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Craft Brew—Can Filling

One story heard time and time again from craft brewers is that when aluminum cans all of a sudden became a must-have format, the canning equipment they first installed to meet the sudden demand quickly proved inadequate.