News & Media
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Folding Carton Industry
INNOVATION – The Muse of Automation
by Mike McGuinness, PacSys president – Reprinted with permission of Folding Carton Industry, Brunton Business Publications, United Kingdom
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Oystar A+F
Transcontinental-Interglobe orders A+F format-flexible book palletizer, high-efficiency book cartoner
PacSys, Inc., representing A+F Automation of IWKA Packaging in North America, announced today that Transcontinental - Interglobe, Beauceville, Quebec, - one of the largest book plants in North America - has ordered the new A+F book cartoner and format-flexible book palletizer system to increase material handling throughput and improve worker safety.
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Flexible Packaging
Gateway – This changes everything! Three times as fast as flexography. Twice as fast as gravure ... (Reprint courtesy of Flexible Packaging magazine).
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Oystar A+F
A+F Summer Newsletter
View the Summer, 2005, issue of the A+F newsletter. Available as a three-page pdf download. Topics include: High-speed palletizing, Micro-packer, Change overs, Videos, and Literature.
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Paperboard Packaging
Packaging Online –
Product of the Month:
Axium DP500 Robotic De-Stacker
The DP500 offers a range of de-stacking and sorting capabilities to the folding carton, corrugated packaging, and commercial printing industries
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Meadwestvaco
Material Handling Automation Plays Important Role In Comprehensive MeadWestvaco Plant Safety Program
MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems LLC has a comprehensive and successful safety program – part of their Operational Excellence Initiative – that contains a number of innovative approaches ....
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Axium Inc.
PacSys demonstrates Axium’s DP500 Robotic De-Stacker to Folding Carton Industry
PacSys, Inc., Mystic, Connecticut-based specialists in material handling and automation systems, recently conducted a seminar and demonstration featuring the new Axium DP500 Robotic De-Stacker in Montreal for members of the folding carton industry. The attendees represented 10 companies operating a total of 58 folding carton plants.
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MeadWestvaco
A+F Automation’s New Automated Palletizing System Delivers Enhanced Ergonomics, Productivity and Flexibility for MeadWestvaco’s Ajax Facility
A new high-capacity A+F Automation automated palletizing system has enhanced ergonomics and provided improved productivity for MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems LP’s Ajax, Ontario, beverage carton facility. The system is described as “a totally new concept in folding carton material handling automation” by Mike McGuinness of PacSys, Inc., who represents A+F Automation of Germany which supplied the system.
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Riverwood International
Riverwood International Doubles Plant Throughput
Productivity surges with A+F Automation robotic palletizer
An A+F Automation robotic palletizer system has increased throughput and significantly raised the bar on productivity at Riverwood International Corporation's Cincinnati, Ohio, folding carton converting plant.
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Focus plant
Reprinted from Folding Carton Indusrtry magazine
(W .P. Jaspert)
Field Container Group's "focus plant"
Just over three years ago, in the autumn of 1998, Field Container Group entered into a five-year contract with the international food giant Kellogg to supply cartons to the Mexican plant in Queretaro. Field Container's "focus plant" was to be located immediately adjacent to the food factory so that printed folding cartons could be called up on demand.