News & Insights

One of the first steps of installing a canning line is finding the right fit for your brewery when it comes to getting beer into the cans and getting them to look good after they’re filled. At last year’s Craft Brewers Conference, Ohio-based Pneumatic Scale Angelus showcased their CB50 Can Seamer, based off their well-established high speed seamer design for larger scale operations. However, the CB50 is specifically designed for the craft brewing industry with a smaller footprint on the brewery floor and a more economical price point. 

Which would you rather drink a beer in, a can or a bottle? It’s a question beer lovers – and therefore – brewers are asking themselves as more and more of the record-high 5,000 breweries in the U.S. enter the world of distribution. According to a recent report by the Brewers Association, while bottling is still the preferred method of packaging for beer distribution, canning has more than doubled since 2013. Why cans? Why so much growth now for this type of packaging?

UK’s largest in-house packaging machinery event will be held 12-16 June, 2017 in Hayssen Flexible Systems’ manufacturing facility in Nottingham, England. Hayssen will open its doors to all types of food processors and distributors, providing the opportunity to see live demonstrations of the latest in packaging machinery.

Schib, a company of Hayssen Flexible Systems, has introduced a new generation CO 50 BB, an inverted horizontal flow wrapper featuring rotary motion HFFS technology. Described as extremely flexible and dependable, the machine is suited for a wide range of food and non-food products, both for single pack or multi-packing.

In 1885, a young man named Jaime Santiveri in Barcelona, Spain was diagnosed with a severe lung disease. He tried every type of medicine available in the market at the time. The only option was to try a natural, alternative medicine and luckily for him, it was the right solution. With a healthy lifestyle and alternative medicine, Jaime Santiveri was able to successfully recover from the disease. So in 1914 he opened his first factory in Spain, where he produced his own products and the company has never stopped since.

When you work with a BW Packaging S​ystems company, you can bet they’ll go to the ends of the earth to solve your packaging challenges. Literally. That’s exactly what BW Container Systems did to provide Trident Sea Foods, located in Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands, with three robotic rotary palletizing systems.

Sachs Peanuts has a proud tradition of quality and service dating back four generations, family owned and operated for more than a century. Sachs processes, packages and distributes quality salted in-shell peanuts from the heart of the Virginia and the Carolina’s peanut growing regions. As industry leaders in private label and co-branded peanuts, they service retailers and wholesalers, including supplying peanuts to many popular restaurant chains.

Does your packaging application require daily sanitation? Check the following video to see how simple and fast it is to washdown the Simionato Logic VFFS bagger.

Italian-based Forno Miotti is a family-owned bakery established near Padua by Cesare Miotti back in 1930. The company, currently run by Cesare’s grandchildren Ferdinando and Luca Tabaschi, has been producing delicious bakery products with the same passion and care its founder had in the past. Forno Miotti’s specialties are artisanal fruit tarts, full of flavor and fragrance, like homemade cakes.

T.Wilson and Sons (Farmers) Ltd, a family-run business in Merseyside, England, farms a wide variety of high quality fresh produce. In order to pack all their fresh products, T.Wilson relied once again on Hayssen Flexible Systems’ technology, specifically a Simionato Logic vertical packaging machine.