Washdown Spiral

• Open construction for readily accessible cleaning, inspection and maintenance

• Corrosion resistant stainless steel construction & plastic belt

• CIP design with open belt surface to easily washdown from any angle

• Self-draining, bent frame construction eliminates water pooling

• For dry and high moisture environments

Companies

TricorBraun signed an exclusive agreement with BioBottles that enables it to exclusively offer BioBottles—said to be the first and only biodegradable bottle specifically designed and engineered for the nutraceutical industry—to nutraceutical companies in the U.S. and Canada.

Triangle Package Machinery Corp. celebrated its centennial anniversary.

ProMach announced BDT Capital Partners will acquire a significant stake of the company, alongside Leonard Green & Partners, the existing majority owner. As part of the agreement, LGP will invest new capital into the company.

PAC Machinery Bags and Materials’ custom and stock pre-opened bags for automatic baggers will be produced with a minimum of 25% post-industrial recycled resin.

ABB began construction to expand its existing North American robotics headquarters and manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Mich.

JLS Automation acquired K2 Kinetics.

Piab acquired Coval Vacuum Technology and IB Verfahrens- und Anlagentechnik GmbH & Co. KG

Krones signed an agreement to acquire 90% of Ampco Pumps

Heat and Control’s new facility in Jalisco, Mexico, will be the headquarters for its Mexico and Latin American operations.

Michigan State University opened its newly renovated MSU School of Packaging building.

Lantech opened a case handling equipment manufacturing facility in North America that will provide quicker lead times and machine expertise to its customers.

Quality Packaging Specialists International celebrated it 30th anniversary.

Della Toffola Group and Bertolaso merged to Form Omnia Technologies

Amcor announced a joint research project agreement with Nfinite Nanotechnology Inc. to validate the use of Nfinite’s nanocoating technology.

Solidus Solutions rebranded as Solidus

Columbus McKinnon acquired montratec GmbH

People

Rudy Sanchez was promoted to food handling systems product manager – Americas for Key Technology

Enercon promoted Ryan Schuelke to president/chief sales officer and added Mike Ritterling to the newly created position of technical support and field service manager.

Kevin Kuznicki was appointed president for Billerud North America.

NJM appointed Rich Orrell regional sales manager for the Midwestern United States.

Yamato’s board of directors appointed Bill Pierce president.

John Blicha was promoted to vice president of Eriez.

ITW Air Management and Pillar Technologies united their sales teams to better serve customer needs in similar markets. Doug Biggs was appointed to lead the sales organizations.

Paul Leibinger Inc. expanded its leadership team in East Troy, Wis., with the addition of Derek Morin as general manager – Americas and Ryan Friend as sales director – Americas.

WLS appointed Randy Backich regional sales manager for Northeastern United States and Quebec, Canada.

What’s new in 2023?

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Six-Axis Robot

Epson Robots expands its VT6L-Series with the addition of the industrial-grade VT6L-DC All-in-One 6-Axis Robot. It can be mounted to an AMR for warehousing applications or on a mobile platform for easy transport between workstations.

Epson Robots pwgo.to/7759

Recyclable Films for Meat, Dairy

Amcor announces the European launch of its PrimeSeal and DairySeal recycle-ready thermoforming films for meat, fish, and dairy; the films are heat resistant up to 90°C.

Amcor pwgo.to/7891

Label-Less PET Bottle

Sidel’s 1SKIN label-less 1-L PET bottle can enter a recycling stream with no need to separate additional raw materials such as ink, glue, labels, or sleeves.

Sidel pwgo.to/7780

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By Ben Miyares, Packaging Sherpa