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GERMANY – Romaco Noack has expanded its Unity family with the Unity 600 blister packaging line, aiming to optimize efficiency and lower emissions in the production of packs for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical sectors. The company says that the new packaging line has a maximum output of 600 blisters and 350 cartons per minute. The machine’s double-lane high-speed line is…
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NIGERIA – Sidel, a global provider of packaging solutions to install its 1000th EvoBlow blow molder as part of a high-speed PET water line at StrongPack in Nigeria early this year. StrongPack has been a customer of Sidel since starting operations in 2018. Benefiting from an experienced, flexible, and customer-focused Sidel project management team, StrongPack is now one of Nigeria’s…
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SLOVAKIA –Print company Tlačiareň Bardejov has bought a five-colour Rapida 76 with an inline coater and an Omega Allpro 90 folder-gluer technologies from Koenig & Bauer to scale operations. According to Koenig & Bauer, by investing in a five-color Rapida 76 with inline coater, together with an Omega Allpro 90 folder-gluer, Tlačiareň Bardejov has boosted its production capacities in preparation…
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UK – UK-based medical packaging machinery company Shawpak has launched its new Shawpak Rigid Blister Machine for the pharma industry. According to Shawpak, the Shawpak Rigid Blister Machine can create die-cut rigid blister packs of up to a maximum size of 600 x 280mm giving a web width of 620mm and an index length of 300mm. A single blister can…
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UK – UK’s leading supplier of digital coding solutions, Clearmark has unveiled a new Overprinting Watchstrap Labeler (OWL) system to apply watchstrap labels to net and weave packaging applications., The Zodiac OWL aims to overcome the challenge of watchstrap labels snapping under stress when they are applied to textured surfaces, reports Packaging Europe. To prevent the snap from occurring, the…
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US – Sappi North America, a subsidiary of Sappi Limited, has approved a US$418 million investment to rebuild a paper machine at its Somerset Mill in Skowhegan to make packaging and specialty papers. The investment at the mill will “increase its Paper Machine No. 2’s capacity and produce solid bleached sulfate (SBS) board products, a sustainable alternative to plastic packaging,”…
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GERMANY – Innovative developer and manufacturer of mass production direct-to-shape digital decoration solutions, Velox has developed Micro-Pixel Drop Shape Control Technology for Digital Printing on Plastic Tubes. The new technology delivers exceptionally photorealistic accuracy in images, fine graphic elements, and ultra-sharp text and lines, with high ink efficiency, and with no impact on Velox’s extremely high decoration speed of 250…
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US – Global leader in liquid packaging and dispensing, Liquibox has unveiled two new bag-in-box filling machines for safer, easier, and more efficient bag-in-box filling. The latest modular design platforms include automatic A-Series and semi-automatic S-Series machines. Liquibox, a portfolio company of Olympus Partners, said that the machines can fill a broad range of liquid products, including liquid food, beverages…
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UK – The UK branch of supermarket chain Lidl has become the first supermarket in the UK to give customers access to an on-shelf smart refill machine with ‘smart’ pouches for their laundry detergent. Located on-shelf in the store’s laundry detergent section, the compact machine features ‘smart’ pouches and will occupy the same amount of space as 66 standard Formil…
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US – Harpak-ULMA, the industry leader in smart, connected packaging solutions, has unveiled the ULMA TFS 216 thermoforming machine, which is designed to offer more sustainable packaging for fresh food products. The TFS 216 takes ULMA’s pursuit of sustainable packaging solutions a step further by offering a new model of thermoforming machine designed to package fresh products in vacuum skin…
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