2024 PACK EXPO Technology Excellence Awards

Automation & IIoT

PACK EXPO International Celebrates Innovation with 2024 Technology Excellence Awards

Nov. 6, 2024

PACK EXPO highlighted groundbreaking advancements in packaging and processing, unveiling the winners of the coveted Technology Excellence Awards that honor unprecedented innovations in the industry.

Sharon Spielman

PACK EXPO International announced the Technology Excellence Award winners, which recognize innovations in packaging and processing. The awards celebrate never-before-seen technology showcased at the event.

Winners were announced in various categories, highlighting exceptional solutions across multiple sectors. Notable recipients include standout innovations in food and beverage, general packaging and processing, personal care/pharma and sustainability. These awards represent a culmination of votes from industry professionals who evaluated the impacts and capabilities of the technologies.

Food Radar Systems Wins Food and Beverage Category

For food and beverage, the winner is Food Radar Systems for its detection of foreign bodies by transmitting low power microwaves through the food product. The system uses a microwave sensor designed for emulsions and pumpable products and measures the dielectric properties of the food.

General Packaging and Processing Goes to Fogg Filler

Fogg Filler Company took home the award for general packaging and processing. Its PF pressure filler series is a complete rethink of filling technology engineered as a hybrid system to offer significant advantages over current gravity bowl and pressure gravity filling designs. The technological hybrid pairing integrates the precision and the product supply pressure of contactless electronic metering valves with the closed-loop bypass process controls and CIP/SIP cleanability in a contact filling valve.  

Pace Packaging Prevails for Personal Care/Pharma

The personal care/pharma winner is Pace Packaging LLC for its Omni-IR, the new generation of the company’s linear technology, enhancing its capabilities and reliability to meet the ever-growing needs of manufacturing environments. Capable of achieving speeds ranging from 250 to 650 bottles per minute, the Omni-IR series offers manufacturers of all sizes a customizable solution to meet specific production demands.

Plastipak’s PET Resin Scores Sustainability Award

The sustainability award went to Plastipak Packaging Inc. for its PPK Natura, the world’s first PET resin made from waste carbon. The resin is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and its production process does not require land or food resources. Packaging made from this material can be fully recycled at the end of its life, keeping the carbon in a circular material cycle. Proprietary bacteria are applied to consume a variety of waste feedstocks and convert them into new chemicals, which can be turned into packaging, clothing, laundry detergent, aviation fuel and more.

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About the Author

Sharon Spielman | Technical Editor, Machine Design

As Machine Design’s technical editor, Sharon Spielman produces content for the brand’s focus audience—design and multidisciplinary engineers. Her beat includes 3D printing/CAD; mechanical and motion systems, with an emphasis on pneumatics and linear motion; automation; robotics; and CNC machining.

Spielman has more than three decades of experience as a writer and editor for a range of B2B brands, including those that cover machine design; electrical design and manufacturing; interconnection technology; food and beverage manufacturing; process heating and cooling; finishing; and package converting.

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