Entries by Thiru

Accelerated ‘shrooms get accuracy boost

According to management at Miami,OK, mushroom producer J-M Farms,standing out from the competition can be difficult in today’s global marketplace. The company has learned to differentiate itself by strictly guarding quality at every turn. It performs three to four third-party food safety audits annually and imposes strict quality and safety regulations on itself—beyond what is […]

Paxiom Opens New Milwaukee Xperience Center

Paxiom Group, the global sales and service division for industry leading manufacturers: WeighPack Systems, EndFlex, SleekWrapper and CombiScale, has opened its fifth new Xperience Center at 16850 West Victor Road, New Berlin, WI 53151 just fifteen minutes from Milwaukee’s International Airport. This new center showcases over $2,000,000 of finished packaging machine inventory including primary and […]

Compact Modular Pick & Place Cell for End-of Line Packaging

Paxiom Group is excited to present its new compact robotic pick and place cell that can be combined with synchronized conveying systems and incorporated into virtually any existing end-of-line packing process. The Top-load Modular Cell is equipped to pick and place various finished package types including bags, wrapped products, rigid containers, cartons, and widgets into […]

Simple New Solution for Automatic Tray Forming

The Paxiom Group has expanded its line of tray formers with small businesses in mind. The cost-effective PopLok® VS series is an easy-to-operate automatic tray forming solution designed to erect self-locking corrugated and paperboard trays, with or without a lid. While holding several similarities with its standard PopLok® predecessor, the primary differentiating features of the […]

Berry Well Done

If it seems as though the province of British Columbia is blessed with a plethora natural resources, rest assured you are not imagining things.Among its forestry and fishing capabilities, the province is also Canada’s leader in the production of cultivated blueberries. According to a 2016 report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Great White North […]

Introducing the Sleek Inverted

The servo-driven Sleek Inverted is engineered to handle soft, sticky, or multipack products that may be difficult to push with the traditional lug chain design found on most conventional flow wrappers. With the Sleek Inverted, product is securely carried on top of the packaging film from the former to the cutting head. The Sleek Inverted […]

Conveyorized scale for non-free flowing and delicate products

WeighPack introduces the C-10 to its PrimoLinear™ family of linear net-weighing equipment, engineered specifically for limp, non-free flowing, and delicate products including coleslaw, cooked noodles, diced tomatoes, raw meat, and more. The C-10 utilizes a system of motor-operated conveyor belts to gently transfer product from the hopper to the 10 liter pneumatically-actuated weigh bucket that […]

EndFlex’s PopLok for roll and tuck trays

EndFlex’s PopLok is an automatic tray forming solution designed to erect self-locking corrugated and paperboard trays with or without a lid. The PopLok, capable of forming 1-tuck, 2-tuck, and multi-tuck trays, is built in a heavy duty welded steel frame and constructed with durability and longevity in mind. The PopLok operates efficiently by gently pulling […]

Automatic tray former for triangular corner post trays

EndFlex, Miami, Fla., developed a new solution, the VassoyoAir Triangular Corner Post automatic tray former, geared toward addressing secondary packaging needs for food, non-food and bulk packaging industries displaying product in wholesale club retail environments. The VassoyoAir Triangular Corner Post machine has the ability to mechanically form and glue triangular corner post trays in various […]

Addressing a manufacturing capacity shortage

When Loving Pets, a maker of snacks for pets, recently found itself just about at capacity with its existing packaging equipment, management wasted little time in sizing up, purchasing, and installing new equipment that would solve the problem. The sizing up part, explains Operations Manager Brad McManus, was done internally. “Our VerTek vertical form/fill/seal machine […]