There’s a reason OEM Magazine keeps coming back to ProMach’s AI program. This is the second feature in less than a year — following a November 2025 piece on how ProMach built its in-house PAIRIS AI program. The theme across both: ProMach isn’t treating AI as a side experiment. It’s building an operating discipline around […]
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From Sustainability Claims to New Formats, Changes in Pet Care Packaging That Affect the Plant Floor
Sustainability, premiumization, and convenience continue to reshape the pet care category, but for manufacturers, these trends don’t stop at the package design stage. They show up on the plant floor, influencing equipment selection, line performance, and operational decision‑making. As pet food brands adapt to changing consumer expectations, packaging teams are increasingly tasked with translating marketing […]
How Processing and Packaging Lines Are Evolving to Handle More SKUs and Product Variety
Product variety has become a defining feature of today’s food and beverage landscape. Across liquid foods, ready‑to‑drink (RTD) beverages, pet food, and spirits, manufacturers are managing more SKUs, shorter production runs, and faster changeovers than ever before. What was once an occasional operational challenge is now a daily reality, forcing packaging and processing lines to […]
What Market Solutions Teams Hear First: Translating Market Trends into Packaging Line Requirements
In today’s packaging environment, market shifts rarely arrive as abstract forecasts. They surface first in conversations—questions from brand owners, concerns from operations teams, and early signals shared by processors navigating change in real time. For vertical market teams embedded in liquid foods, ready‑to‑drink (RTD), pet care, and wine and spirits, these signals provide an early […]
Packaging for Shelf‑Life and Product Integrity: How to Match Format, Barrier, and Process to What the Product Needs
Shelf life and product integrity are no longer driven by packaging material alone. Today, they are the result of a tightly connected system—where packaging format, barrier performance, and processing method must work together to protect product quality from the first fill through distribution and storage. As consumer expectations for freshness, clean labels, and sustainability rise, […]