Lest anyone think that the pandemic pressed "pause" on campaigns for corporate sustainability, think again. If anything, COVID-19 reminded consumers, and the snack and bakery sectors, just how interconnected we are, whether we’re selecting suppliers, expanding production, or packing a protein bar into our gym bags.

Snack food and wholesale bakery manufacturers in the market for dividers, depositors and rounders have a long list of considerations. These include automation, reliability, scalability, integration, flexibility, communication, customization, ease of maintenance and sanitation, and different packaging capabilities, according to companies that produce such machines.

The latest product handling equipment, cartoners, case erectors and packers, loaders and palletizers, are designed to meet the needs of bakery and snack producers as well as consumers in a fast-changing marketplace. These flexible systems can run a large array of SKUs and they feature quick-change capabilities.

Orion Packaging Systems, a ProMach brand, will be exhibiting several of its stretch and pallet wrapping solutions, including the newly redesigned S-Carriage InstaThread Pre-stretch Film Carriage, at PACK EXPO 2021.

Cloud kitchens, also known as ghost kitchens, present an emerging market opportunity for the baking industry. Multiple segments that intersect with baking show potential, including direct-to-consumer bakery click-and-collect or delivery of fresh breads, sweet goods, desserts, and novel concepts like automated dessert carry-out via vending

The Phaser AB Vertical Form, Fill, Seal Machine is capable of producing pillow, gusseted, or flat bottom packages from 2 inches to 13 inches in width and 3 inches to 15 inches in length at speeds in excess of 60 packages per minute.

Multi-Conveyor recently built both an unscrambling rotary table and an accumulation rotary table which are connected by a 30’ basic plastic straight running chain conveyor in this semi-automated conveyance application.

Brenton is debuting a new top-load case packer at PACK EXPO 2021 that brings a higher level of efficiency to established consumer and commercial packaged goods providers.