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Items Tagged with 'material handling'

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Dorner

Smarter Line Design Improves Food Manufacturing Efficiency and Throughput

September 10, 2026

Food manufacturers looking to boost throughput and reduce downtime may be overlooking a critical part of the production line: product movement. Discover how smarter conveyance, accumulation, and hygienic design strategies can improve efficiency, support automation, reduce product damage, and create more resilient operations.



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Stainless steel conveyor system transferring cut food pieces—likely pasta or fries—through an enclosed industrial processing line using a flexible hose and screw conveyor in a manufacturing facility.
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Hapman

What’s Slowing Down Your Bulk Material Handling Process?

May 14, 2026

Bulk material handling rarely fails all at once. Learn how inefficiencies build, where processes slow down, and what to evaluate before small issues turn into costly operational problems.


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Supplier News

Rockwell Automation Begins AMR Production in Wisconsin

November 5, 2025

The new, 25,000-sq.-ft. OTTO production space at the Milwaukee campus is now assembling the OTTO 600 and OTTO 1200 autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).


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Cyngn DriveMod G&J Pepsi
Automation/Robotics

G&J Pepsi Deploys Cyngn Autonomous DriveMod Tugger

October 14, 2025

Cyngn's collaboration with G&J Pepsi will focus on deploying DriveMod solutions to automate material handling tasks within G&J Pepsi's facilities.


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Akona Process Solutions New Name
Mergers & Acquisitions

Advanced Material Processing and Automated Handling Solutions Merge to Form Akona Process Solutions

February 4, 2025

Akona unifies the technologies and global reach of AMP and AHS to deliver an extensive portfolio of processing and handling solutions for high-value materials in the food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and chemicals industries.


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Autonomous Robot Transportation
Material Handling

How Vertical Reciprocating Conveyors Boost Efficiency of Mobile Robots

Chuck Cobb_PFlow
Chuck Cobb
Dan Hext_PFlow
Dan Hext
January 30, 2025

Combining vertical reciprocating conveyors with automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots can serve as an efficient, safe and cost-effective solution for accessing taller racking, pick modules, mezzanines and multiple floor levels in warehouses or production environments.


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Mergers/Acquisitions

Schenck Process Food and Performance Materials (FPM) business to Join Coperion

May 25, 2023

FPM will become a part of Coperion’s Food, Health & Nutrition Division, joining previous acquisitions Linxis Group, Peerless and Gabler.


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Dorner's DCMove Belted Covnveyor with boxes on top of it
Conveyors

Dorner’s New DCMove Belted Conveyor for Material Handling

February 15, 2023

The new product is designed to integrate streamlined conveyance into larger material handling and e-commerce systems.


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Dry Processing Products | August 2022

August 31, 2022

This month’s dry processing product focus covers bulk bag handling equipment.


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Automation, especially on the packaging and material handling side of an operation can assume a lot of jobs that are boring and tiring
Automation Trends

Automation and food processing today: It's about labor

Food processors have found labor scarce, difficult to retain and in need of ongoing training; automation can help
Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor
Wayne Labs
May 16, 2022

Processors are turning to automation to fill jobs where people are unavailable.



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6/10/26 to 6/10/27
Contact: Meg K.

Dust, Damage, and Downtime: Designing Bulk Solids Systems That Protect Product and People

On Demand By focusing on real-world applications, this webinar equips engineers and operations professionals with the tools to design bulk solids systems that are safer, cleaner, and more dependable from the start.

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Webinar

7/30/26 to 7/30/27
Contact: Meg K.

Introducing Industrial Metaverse for Consumer Packaged Goods

On Demand Discover how the Industrial Metaverse is transforming the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry by enabling companies to design, simulate, and optimize operations in a fully virtual environment.

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  • Close-up of a group of freshly baked stuffed empanadas being transferred onto a conveyor belt.
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    Smarter Line Design Improves Food Manufacturing Efficiency and Throughput

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