In the production of complex folding cartons, such as six packs and other special designs, it is more cost-efficient to monitor gluing with line scan cameras than with individual sensors upwards of a certain number of glue joints. Many Baumer HHS customers use the company’s Xcam camera system for applications of this kind. Baumer HHS, …
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Plastic plays a significant role in preventing food waste. In a recent survey by Boston Consulting Group of 15,000 people globally, 83% of millennial and Gen Z consumers said they’d be willing to pay more for products that came in sustainable packaging. This demand has triggered a new ecosystem of alternative packaging materials and new …
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Emerald Technology Ventures has announced the launch of a fund focused on sustainable packaging, one of the first venture-backed investment vehicles targeting the full packaging lifecycle. With the global packaging sector poised for rapid growth amid a major push to reduce waste and greenhouse gas emissions, the fund aims to catalyse leaps in the advanced …
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Lay’s RePlay is giving chip packs an extraordinary second life, as sustainable football pitches. In partnership with the UEFA Foundation for children and NGO ‘Streetfootballworld’, PepsiCo has launched a global initiative to transform empty chip bags into sustainable artificial turf fields (aka football pitches). The first to be unveiled this year in Tembisa, South Africa …
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Cereal Partners Worldwide’s very first NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have dropped on Opensea.io, commemorating the launch of the Trix Breakfast Cereal brand in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). The Trix Globe is an exclusive limited series of only two NFTs available for bidding from 18 March-5 May, with 100% of the proceeds going to …
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3D Systems, one of the leading additive manufacturing solutions provider, and the Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur) have signed an agreement intended to expand the use of additive manufacturing (AM) within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and surrounding geographies, including the Middle East and North Africa. The announcement was made during a ceremony …
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Richard Roth has been appointed to the role of General Manager EMEA for Esko, the global developer of integrated software and hardware solutions that digitize, automate and connect the go-to-market process of consumer goods. The move follows Eddy Fadel taking the position of Global Commercial General Manager, where he will oversee global sales, services, …
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Aptar has announced its progress in testing and transforming PureCycle Technologies’s Ultra-Pure Recycled (UPR) plastic. Aptar and PureCycle aim to work to determine the right material combination to create hinged closures for food, beverage and cosmetics applications made with UPR. Recently, Aptar converted prototype material from the PureCycle Feedstock Evaluation Unit into multiple colors …
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AVD Goldach, one of the largest independent magazine printers in Switzerland, is investing in a high-end Rapida 106 with five printing units and facilities for inline coating. The company has its offices in the Swiss municipality of the same name, and was founded as a web printing business in 1930. In addition to magazine production, …
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The region’s newest eGrocery platform features fully automated robotics-fulfillment center and one of the first centers of the kind globally with a chilled warehouse capability. With the launch of Raha, an innovative homegrown concept, set to redefine Kuwait’s grocery experience – Swisslog has implemented Kuwait’s first fully-automated robotics-fulfillment center, and one of the first …
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