The PowerStak family of high-performance, fully powered stackers from Presto ECOA, Norton, Mass., feature both powered lift and powered drive.

Boston Dynamics, Waltham, Mass., acquired Kinema Systems, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of industrial robotic arms.

Silgan Closures, Downers Grove, Ill., partnered with ORBIS Corp., Oconomowoc, Wis., and Mid America Molds to develop a “caseless” system for bottled products to replace traditional stacks of cases.

Despite ongoing production pressures on meat and poultry operations managers, making the effort to follow best practice sanitary standards can not only enhance food safety and production, but also add value to products.

Meat processors are turning to newer, higher-speed packaging solutions that come equipped with dedicated interleavers and card dispensers.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA), Houston, Texas, introduced two new series of Jungheinrich fork-over stackers and sit-on low lift pallet trucks to its North American product line, featuring advanced AC technology.

Automation Plus, a Stoughton, Wis.-based division of CSF Inc., introduced the Pallet Return Device (PRD) product line to be used in distribution centers, general warehousing facilities, manufacturing facilities, food and beverage plants and retail stores.

Douglas Machine, Alexandria, Minn., integrated a multiwrapper with a Velocity stacker to create a machine capable of packaging 480 cartons per minute.

Schober debuted rotary die cutting technology that’s especially designed for converting digital or conventionally printed film and foil, laminates, coated paper laminates and composite materials.

Schober USA, Fairfield, Ohio, launched a single spider automated robotic stacking system onto an existing installed RSM rotary die cutting machine.