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What a Dedicated Mexico Sales Rep Actually Means for Your Container Line Machinery Tech
Apr 10, 2026

What a Dedicated Mexico Sales Rep Actually Means for Your Container Line

From the floor: what a dedicated regional sales rep like Morrison's new hire actually fixes in your day-to-day container handling operations.
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Why Internal Promotion for Sales Leadership Often Wins in Packaging Automation Machinery Tech
Apr 7, 2026

Why Internal Promotion for Sales Leadership Often Wins in Packaging Automation

A packaging coordinator with 8 years of vendor experience analyzes why internal hires, like Econocorp's new VP of Sales, often outperform external hires in technical machinery sales.
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When Your Corrugated Supplier Hires a New Sales Lead: A Procurement Perspective Machinery Tech
Apr 3, 2026

When Your Corrugated Supplier Hires a New Sales Lead: A Procurement Perspective

What a capital equipment supplier's new sales hire actually means for your packaging budget and project timelines. Insights from eight years in CPG procurement.
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I Thought Conveyor Belts Were Just Moving Parts. Then a $28K Downtime Bill Changed My Mind Machinery Tech
Apr 2, 2026

I Thought Conveyor Belts Were Just Moving Parts. Then a $28K Downtime Bill Changed My Mind

A packaging operations manager shares hard-learned lessons about conveyor belt selection, from costly breakdowns to the surprising strategic impact on safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
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How a Cleaning Chemical Maker Solved Palletizing Chaos with Cobots Machinery Tech
Apr 2, 2026

How a Cleaning Chemical Maker Solved Palletizing Chaos with Cobots

Facing 90-day labor turnover and tight space, one manufacturer deployed modular cobot palletizers, boosting throughput 11%, cutting labor costs, and achieving ROI in under 2 years.
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AI's Quiet Takeover on the Packaging Floor | A Practitioner's View Machinery Tech
Mar 25, 2026

AI's Quiet Takeover on the Packaging Floor | A Practitioner's View

AI adoption in packaging is no longer hype. Here’s what the shift from pilot projects to plant-floor reality looks like, based on the latest industry data and hard-won experience.
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Britannia’s Aseptic PET Move: A Quality & Supply Chain Perspective Machinery Tech
Mar 22, 2026

Britannia’s Aseptic PET Move: A Quality & Supply Chain Perspective

Why Britannia's switch to transparent, aseptic PET for Winkin' Cow was more than a branding play—it was a quality control and distribution stability masterstroke.
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Beyond the Pouch: A Procurement Look at Clipped Packaging for Liquid Foods Machinery Tech
Mar 22, 2026

Beyond the Pouch: A Procurement Look at Clipped Packaging for Liquid Foods

Evaluating Poly-Clip's clip-pak system from a cost and operations perspective. Is automated clipping for soups and sauces a smart investment for mid-size food producers?
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Mechanical Seal Failures in Paper Mills: A Case Study That Hit Close to Home Machinery Tech
Mar 17, 2026

Mechanical Seal Failures in Paper Mills: A Case Study That Hit Close to Home

One US paper mill cut water consumption by 90% and saved $75K in annual maintenance costs by fixing its mechanical seals. Here's what that project actually looked like from the floor.
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Porous Box Coding Problems: Hard Lessons from the Warehouse Floor Machinery Tech
Mar 17, 2026

Porous Box Coding Problems: Hard Lessons from the Warehouse Floor

Coding on porous corrugated looks like a solved problem — until the ink bleeds, the cold chain fogs the print, or the label adhesive gives out. What I've documented from four years of getting it wrong.
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