Article1 min read Jun 5, 2025Motion Opens First Canadian Conveyance Shop in Calgary to Elevate Regional Belting ServiceMotion Industries announced the opening of its first Canadian Motion Conveyance Solutions shop. The new facility, located at 100-10725 74 St. SE, Calgary, Alberta, officially opened its doors on May 1, 2025. This strategic location is designed to enhance Motion's ability to serve customers' growing needs across Western Canada.
Video01:00:20 Jun 4, 2025Transitioning from micro to nano: unlocking the potential of cellulose nanomaterials WebinarThis comprehensive presentation explores advanced cellulose nanomaterial production through real-time monitoring and machine learning optimization. Marc Delgado-Aguilar demonstrates how tempo-mediated oxidation and enzymatic pretreatments can be monitored using NIR spectroscopy and chemometric modeling, enabling better process control. The research reveals optimal processing conditions for high-pressure homogenization, showing 1.5% consistency delivers maximum fibrillation yield while minimizing energy consumption. Advanced AI models including artificial neural networks and random forest algorithms successfully predict key properties like aspect ratio and yield of fibrillation from easily measurable process parameters. These breakthrough approaches address critical industry challenges in scaling cellulose nanofiber production, offering practical solutions for reducing processing costs, improving quality control, and accelerating time-to-market for sustainable nanomaterials applications across multiple industries.
Article1 min read Feb 13, 2025Cardinal Tissue Acquires Softex Paper's U.S. Assets in South Carolina and FloridaCardinal Tissue LLC announced the acquisition of Softex Paper's US assets, located in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and Palatka, Florida. Both companies convert parent rolls of tissue paper into tissue products such as toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, and facial tissue. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Article8 min read Feb 11, 2025When Bots Meet Boxes: The Future of Robotics in the Corrugated IndustrySince automation and AI issues took center stage at this year’s SuperCorrExpo© event, let’s take a look at what advanced robotics means—and doesn’t mean—for boxmakers.
Article1 min read Oct 17, 2024Antalis to Acquire Plaesa in Spain, a Specialist of Technical Packaging and ConversionThis acquisition marks another important step in Antalis’ expansion in the Iberian packaging market. Founded in 1983, Plaesa is a family-owned business specialising in the design, conversion and production of customised technical packaging solutions.
Article3 min read Jun 20, 2024April 2024 Manufacturing Technology Orders Slow Decline, Remain Above Historical AverageOrders of manufacturing technology, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, reached $317.9 million in April 2024. This is a 25.6% decrease from March 2024 but only 5.4% behind orders in April 2023. Orders in 2024 totaled $1.43 billion through April, 16.2% behind orders placed in the first four months of 2023.
Article1 min read May 16, 2024Seeq Announces Industrial Enterprise Monitoring Capabilities with Seeq Vantage at Conneqt 2024Seeq, a leader in industrial analytics and AI, today announced the launch of the Seeq Industrial Enterprise Monitoring Suite with the release of Seeq Vantage, the company’s first industrial enterprise monitoring app, at the company's global industry conference, Conneqt, in Miami.
