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More than 950 exhibitors, nearly 150 on-floor informational seminars and a host of materials handling technologies, supply chain solutions and automation innovations were displayed in 420,000-square-feet of exhibits across two halls at ProMat 2019, which took place April 8-11, at McCormick Place in Chicago.

The TriVex RL is a pick-and-place packer for loading bags, bottles and more, while the TriVex SL case packs bags and pouches into retail- and shelf-ready cases without vacuum picking.

Key features include the ability to master standardized packaging tasks with great efficiency and high quality, the company says.

The record-breaking event welcomed nearly 45,000 attendees with 2,500 exhibitors, in more than 1.25 million net square feet, according to show owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. PMMI also reported 457 new exhibitors this year.

The scanner simultaneously monitors up to three separate zones, significantly increasing plant productivity, the company says.

As busy beverage warehouses handle burgeoning SKUs and manpower shortages continue, repetitive robotics-related functions are filling the gaps.

Serving as the backbone to packaging operations, today’s palletizers and depalletizers incorporate flexibility, speed, high performance and safety to ramp up operations.