Shurtape, Hickory, N.C., introduced Prime Alert, a tape monitoring system designed to issue audible and visual alerts to packaging line operators.

Canada-based Intertape Polymer Group Inc. (IPG), a manufacturer of packaging products and machinery, acquired Better Packages, Inc., an Ansonia, Conn.-based supplier of water-activated tape dispensers.

The new BOXXER T-30 automatic case erector and bottom tape sealer from Miami-based Eagle Packaging Machinery is capable of running both regular-slotted and half-slotted style boxes, up to 30 cases per minute.