Development of new systems and technology is essential for economic survival. Of equal or greater importance is cultivation of the human talent necessary to operate those systems and build the machinery that supports them. Higher education needs all the champions it can get. One of education’s biggest supporters from the packaging machinery industry is Nick L. Wilson, founder and president of Morrison Container Handling Solutions in suburban Chicago.
Wilson’s company produces changeover parts and systems for packaging machines and a variety of material-handling equipment, but its core product is part of its former name: Morrison Timing Screw, established in 1971. Feed and timing screws orient and position fast-moving packages entering filling machines and other equipment. They are ubiquitous in packaging halls, notably those of food and beverage companies.