The acquisition includes assets of Bartelt, Scandia and Kayat from KHS U.S., to expand ProMach’s portfolio in pouch packaging, cartoning and shrink packaging.

Country Pure Foods, a producer of juice-based products and a contract packaging solution for other beverage companies, is adding aseptic flexible packages from Ecolean to its product offering because of the package’s unique conveniences, shape and low environmental impact.

First comes pouch making, then comes pouch filling – and new advances in filling machines enable co-packers and brands to increase efficiency and output when they’re running a number of SKUs or performing short- to medium-sized runs with many changeovers.