This acquisition helps PMI Cartoning expand into new markets, including medical and pharmaceutical, and helps Kyoto expand into North America.
August 15, 2018
Kyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd., Japan, acquired PMI Cartoning, Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill., to create a new equipment manufacturing company called PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems.
The centralized “Ontario” operation will be close to US Route 60, Interstate I-10 and Route 15.
July 16, 2018
Shorr Packaging Corp., Aurora, Ill., announced plans to expand to a new location in Los Angeles to accommodate growing demands within the surrounding Los Angeles area.
Operators can now load cartons more efficiently and safely when working on contract packaging and high-production consumer packaging lines with the new low-profile carton and case magazine from PMI Cartoning, Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill.
The new TriVex CLi case packer from Douglas Machine, Alexandria, Minn., is designed specifically for pillow and gusseted bags of individually-quick frozen (IQF) products.
Germany-based Meypack debuted the VP600 case packer, a continuous motion machine that packs formats ranging in dimension from 70x50x80 mm up to 200x150x200 mm.
Videojet Technologies, Wooddale, Ill., introduced the Videojet 2351 and 2361 high-resolution large character inkjet printers for producers with on-demand case coding operations.