Pat Reynolds

VP Editor Emeritus
Electronic position indicators simplify size changeovers. The status LEDs light up green when the actual and target values match precisely.
Position Indicators Speed Changeover
Three packaging machines handling powdered milk formula rely on monitored size changeover using electronic position indicators with IO-Link interface.
Jun 2nd, 2020
An impressive example of what THIMM has been able to produce thanks to its digital capabilities is this package for a Danone Activia campaign executed in the Czech Republic.
Packaging Converters are Digging Digital
From a new approach to metallization to nanographic printing to digital laser scoring and cutting of printed corrugated sheet, converters agree that digital is the future.
May 4th, 2020
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Mintel Has an Eye on Emerging Brands
Marla Commons, Vice President of Research for the Americas at Mintel, describes that market intelligence agency’s focus on startups.
Apr 6th, 2020
Flexi Tube
New Kind of Tube Format
UFlex won two more Gold Awards (for Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging and for Packaging Excellence) as well as a Silver Award (for Technical Innovation) for its Flexitube Package.
Mar 17th, 2020
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Peter Fallat 2018
Flexible Film and the Circular Economy
Peter Fallat, Director of Global Design & Packaging at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a Colgate-Palmolive company, discusses how flexible films fit into the drive for more sustainable packaging.
Mar 10th, 2020
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AeroFlexx Named Top FPA Award Winner
Described as the “perfect e-commerce package” yet perfectly suitable for brick-and-mortar channels as well, the winner of the Highest Achievement Award in the 64th Annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition is AeroFlexx.
Mar 5th, 2020
News Morrison's Bacon
More sustainable RRP format
Morrisons Supermarkets of the UK has re-launched its Best Bacon product in an improved Retail Ready Packaging (RRP) format.
Dec 11th, 2019
This Lenor product and its ISBM PET container exemplify P&G’s tightly integrated development process, which enables the firm to move more quickly than in years past.
The Compass Steering P&G
Of course packaging is essential to the way P&G goes to market, but packaging is always designed and evaluated in terms of how it meshes with four other key business drivers.
Dec 4th, 2019
Bosch Packaging Technology presented what it calls the next generation Human Machine Interface HMI 4.0.
Next-gen HMI
At PACK EXPO International November 6-9, Bosch Packaging Technology presented what it calls the next generation Human Machine Interface HMI 4.0.
Nov 17th, 2016
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Two-armed collaborative robot
At its PACK EXPO booth, Kawasaki demonstrated an easy-to-teach dual-armed collaborative robot that can be wheeled into position wherever its services are required.
Nov 15th, 2016
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Safety first in conveying
Shuttleworth, powered by ProMach, demonstrated a conveying system that was long on saftety features and also included a Soft Robotics end-of-arm gripper.
Nov 9th, 2016
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Vf/f/s with sanitation-driven design
Model 2015 vf/f/s machine from Pacmac features open-architecture design that makes cleaning easier than ever, and it produces a number of bag styles.
Nov 9th, 2016
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High-speed marking & coding
Videojet's Model 7610 fiber laser marking system is a 100-watt marking and coding solution that is especially suitable for high-speed operations in a variety of applications.
Nov 9th, 2016