Automated systems permit the bottler to tighten packaging tolerances by 10% to 15% in a light-weighting initiative driven by cost-cutting and sustainability goals.In its role as the leading provider of private-label bottled water in North America...

Control devices on a packaging line fail all the time. Getting to the root cause of the problem, though, can be daunting. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to monitor all the devices in real-time and categorize the faults?That’s the question...

“I don’t want ‘monster’ systems,” said Denise LeFebvre, vp, global packaging and engineering technology at PepsiCo, talking about large, high-volume packaging equipment. “I can’t buy 50 of those and put them all over the world at $20 million a...

During a recent packaging redesign, Mrs. Dash brand owner B&G Foods improved profits (by a double-digit percentage), cut its container weight by 25% and saved in excess of 200,000 pounds of PET resin per year. The company realized these results by...