by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 27, 2018 | Blow Molding, Daily News, Film Extrusion, North America, Packaging
Robots were hot in 2017 and they’ll be hotter still in 2018. It was impossible to turn around without seeing a story about them. Often it was about how robots and artificial intelligence were going to put everyone out of work and that the world would end. Some of the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 27, 2018 | Daily News, Film Extrusion, Medical, North America, Packaging
At MD&M West 2018, Nelipak Healthcare Packaging showed how a collaborative robot could help medical device packaging professionals automate certain steps in the heat sealing process. In Nelipak’s booth, Rethink Robotics’s Sawyer robot loaded trays and lidding...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 27, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Europe, Film Extrusion, Packaging
Baden, Austria-based Schur Flexibles Group has acquired two Dutch premium packaging manufacturers, Cats-Hänsel and Nimax BV, for an undisclosed amount. The two companies were previously owned by Clondalkin Group, headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Schur said...
