Sun Centre USA’s latest pouch machinery is successfully producing multi-chamber pouches based on Arranti’s patented pouch designs.

Karlville Swiss has introduced the second generation of fast change, low waste, pouch making machines. 

Sun Centre USA has moved to its new U.S. headquarters in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The new facility provides expanded space for corporate offices as well as 10,000 square feet for the company’s new Technology Center.

ProAmpac’s four-sided, tetrahedron-shaped E-Z SnackPak pouch, developed in partnership with PepsiCo Mexico Foods for the Doritos Icognita brand, has earned a Gold Award from The Dow Chemical Company’s 2018 Awards for Packaging Innovation and the 2018 Star Pack and Packaging Award from The Mexican Association of Packaging (AMEE).

Sun Centre will offer both a live remote presentation and a special in-person tour of its new Chicago-area technical center throughout the upcoming PACK EXPO trade show.

December's Roundtable is with Scott Fuller, CMD; Fabio Dacò, Elba; James F. Pease, Sun Centre USA; Jim Russell, Modern Manufacturing Services, LLC; Shoji Tsuruta, Totani America; and Sanjay Amin, Mamata Enterprises.

As part of a plan to expand into 15 major U.S. markets by 2019, ePac has announced a pair of new locations in Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida, that it expects to open in 2018. 

Transcontinental Inc. has acquired Les Industries Flexipak Inc., a flexible packaging supplier located in Montréal, Québec. 

Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Carl Joachim, ePac CMO, for an update on the company’s all-digital platform and how it has been received by the industry in the year-plus since its inception.

Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Scott Fuller, CMD’s intermittent-motion product line manager, for an update on converter points of pain, optimizing pouch production and what the company has in store for 2018.