Author: John Henry

Change Waste to Resource

Basic physics tells us that matter can’t be created or destroyed, only transformed. When we transform matter, we get a

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Chucks and Clutches

Chuck cappers can be rotary or inline, continuous or intermittent motion. They can run at speeds from 20ppm to 1200ppm

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Tube Fillers

When we think of collapsible tubes we most likely think of toothpaste since we all use it every day. Tubes

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An Educational Guess

In our book, Secrets of Buying Packaging Machinery*, Rich Frain and I discuss gathering information as the first step in

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Taxonomy of Packaging Machinery

I’ve been working with packaging machinery for longer than I want to confess. One issue that has always bothered me

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3 and 4-Sided Pouches

Pouches, sometimes called sachets, are generally formed from roll fed filmstock. They can also be formed offline at a converter

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Education

Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Moneyball) is a favorite author who can make anything interesting. His latest book The Undoing

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Whitepaper: Indexing for Speed

200 milliseconds, one fifth of a second, doesn’t sound like much. It might be costing you hundreds of thousands of

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Some Call it Juggling

Driving down the expressway my wife commented on a woman putting on makeup next to us. (Guys, I’m looking at

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Whitepaper: Shrink Wrapping

Strictly speaking, shrink wrapping is not considered “flexible packaging.” However, wrapping does use flexible film and foil of various materials

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A Wild River Ride!

I suspect that most of you are happy with Amazon’s speedy deliveries but always want them to be just a

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Whitepaper: Managing Constraints

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link and a packaging line is only as fast as its

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