Delkor Systems, a St. Paul, Minn., manufacturer of end-of-line packaging equipment, toasts 40 years of operation this month with an open house at a new facility. The company transformed 114,000 sq. ft. of an existing building in St. Paul into a manufacturing facility that combines all its existing operations.

Bernard McDowell joins the St. Paul, Minn.-based company as sales manager for Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

To accommodate its growth, Delkor Systems recently moved its operations to 114,000-sq.-ft. plant in St. Paul, Minn.

Kurt Kern joins Delkor Systems, St. Paul, Minn., as vice president of operations.

Dale Andersen, CEO of Delkor Systems, St. Paul, Minn., was recently interviewed by Sally Rosen, associate producer of the CBS Evening News.

Members of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), Reston, Va., have elected Dale Andersen to the organization’s board of directors.

Delkor Systems’ new robotic loader allows maximum production efficiency when loading products such as nutritional bars into tri-seal cartons.