Just as baseball fans can look forward to World Series rematches, German trade group VDMA says the packaging machinery industry has a lot to look forward to in 2023.

The new Syntegon IDH is at the heart of a line which flexibly packages cookies and crackers in trays and flow wraps made of mono-material. 

The global manufacturer of high-end packaging solutions will be showcasing two of its A-Z turnkey packaging line solutions at the event. 

Thanks to an innovative kinematics system that works independently in six degrees of freedom, processes that were once difficult to manage can now be automated with limited error and maximized efficiency.  

The improved 4700 now allows for 20 variable updates per print, and it supports customer needs for flexibility even in the most challenging manufacturing environments. 

 The company's top automatic bagging machines and the new sustainable packaging for these machines will be on display this upcoming March.

Universal Robots will supply cobot arms for Rapid Robotics’ deployment of cobot work cells around North America, which will allow Rapid Robotics to serve an even greater number of customers while maintaining the company’s swift deployment times.

The new machine is the industry’s first robotic automated system that can reliably handle the flow of parts ejected from any trim press, as the system enables full automation of the entire thermoforming process.

The new standard size orbital stretch wrapper models feature a choice of 80-inch, 100-inch, and 115-inch wrapping rings to accommodate a wide range of parts and products on 48” x 48” and 60” x 60” pallets, and on 50” wide pallet loads as tall as nearly eight feet, respectively.

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