Pack Expo Las Vegas 2025

Celebrates packaging and material handling solutions

Pack Expo Las Vegas, one of North America’s most comprehensive packaging and processing events is celebrating a milestone: 2025 marks 30 years since the show’s debut. Today, Pack Expo Las Vegas continues to be a global hub for industry innovation and collaboration. Show producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, has elevated Pack Expo Las Vegas from a regional trade show to a global industry force—expanding its scale, influence, and relevance across international markets. This year, the show spanned over 1 million net square feet, featuring 2,300+ exhibitors.

“Pack Expo Las Vegas has always been more than a trade show—it’s where the future of packaging and processing takes shape,” said Jim Pittas, president and CEO, PMMI. “For 30 years, we’ve been proud to drive innovation, foster collaboration, and spotlight the technologies shaping tomorrow’s supply chains. As we look ahead, we remain focused on the forces transforming our industry: automation, AI, sustainability, and workforce development.”

The following booths featured technology relevant to the PTE audience:

Reliability and Versatility with Nord
Booth #SU-20098

Nord’s packaging solutions focus on reliability, versatility, and efficiency. With over 20,000,000 standard configurations to choose from, Nord delivers precisely configured drive systems for end-of-line packaging applications, such as pick-and-place, labeling, filling, sealing, wrapping, strapping, and palletizing machines. The comprehensive product portfolio also includes a wide range of options for general conveyance between packaging steps, with optional safety features like soft start, brake ramps, and STO functions to protect workers, equipment, and products.

Performance optimized Nordbloc.1 gear units deliver high efficiency with low operating costs. Made from high strength, lightweight aluminum alloy, these units are ideal for packaging systems as they reliably handle high axial and radial loads and provide a long service life with minimal maintenance. Nordbloc.1 gear units are extremely versatile, with helical inline, helical bevel, single-stage helical, and two-stage helical bevel gear options available. They also offer various shaft options, mounting options, and application-specific versions available for precise system adaptation.

Thanks to their modular design and high-power density, Nord Universal SI/SMI worm gear units can be quickly and easily adapted to a wide variety of applications. Reinforced bearings enable the worm drives to absorb large axial forces from pouch sorter applications while their compact design optimizes space utilization. While SI gear units have an open housing for better heat dissipation, SMI gear units are available as a smooth surface for easy cleaning in hygienic areas. Both series also offer various configuration options including hollow or solid shafts, shaft-, flange-, or foot-mounted versions, and NEMA, IEC, or direct motor mounting options.

Compact and highly efficient, NORD IE5+ synchronous motors achieve significant energy savings, reduce operating costs, and provide a fast ROI. The extremely efficient operation is possible thanks to the use of permanent magnets which eliminate the need for an external energy supply to generate the magnetic field, additionally enabling high power density and a higher maximum achievable torque. Unlike asynchronous motors, IE5+ motors deliver constant torque and efficiency over a wide speed range, even during partial load operation and at low speeds, allowing for system variants to be minimized. The motors additionally are available as a smooth surface design for hygienic environments (TENV) and a finned version for optimized heat dissipation in heavy traffic systems (TEFC).

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Reliable Automation and Motion Control Solutions with SEW-Eurodrive
Booth #34041

As a leading provider of drive and automation solutions, SEW-Eurodrive is dedicated to supporting manufacturers and OEMs with advanced, reliable, and sustainable technologies for food and beverage production and packaging and logistics machinery.

The increasing demand for sustainable and healthy food poses new challenges for manufacturers in the food industry. Production processes need to be adapted, and innovations are needed to meet industry-specific trends such as new flavors, changed dietary preferences, and sustainability, namely energy efficiency and seamless traceability of resources. All this with a focus on hygienic production and the highest quality standards. The efficient use of modern technologies is crucial to remain competitive. With its efficient and holistic drive and automation solutions, SEW-Eurodrive supports its customers in the food industry with their requirements and goals in being able to process raw materials into food quickly and efficiently.

The beverage industry is about much more than just quenching thirst. There is a huge selection of different drinks in a wide variety of containers. What this diversity has in common are the requirements for product quality, availability and, increasingly, sustainability.

The decisive factor here is, of course, the production process, from process technology to filling and packaging, as well as the conveyor technology as the connecting element between the process steps. For all these steps, we offer you our many years of expertise in the beverage industry, not only as a machine manufacturer, but also as a beverage manufacturer.

This gives you the security of having a reliable partner at your side who will support you with the right drive and service solutions throughout the entire life cycle. In concrete terms, this means that you have a contact partner who takes care of your needs—no matter when and where—so that quality, availability and sustainability are always guaranteed.

Changing market requirements and new demands facing food producers in terms of packaging represent a challenge for manufacturers of packaging machines. They have to design ever faster and with even greater flexibility, while at the same time facing an increasing shortage of skilled workers. This is only possible with a strong partner who offers the right solutions and services for complex drive and control technology.

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Kuka Demonstrates Automation and Robotic Technologies
Booth #3444

Automation demonstrations took place between KUKA System Partners FOCUS Integration, DGT, Automated Automation and Blue Onyx Systems (formerly named Viking Masek Packaging Technologies). The live demonstrations included autonomous mobile robot (AMR) solutions for intralogistics, robotic palletizing/depalletizing, a robotic case packing operation and a conveyor picking and handling system. The company also be featured its newest technology—the KR C5 Kuka industrial robot controller for enhanced flexibility and performance, and the iiQKA.0S2 Kuka System Software (KSS) for workflow optimization.

Kuka System Partner FOCUS Integration demonstrated standard palletizing and depalletizing with its fenceless CUBE robotic palletizing cell paired with a KMP 600P AMR. FOCUS Integration’s CUBE cell is equipped with its FOS next-generation
solution of tools, including a 22" Multitouch glass screen, GuardLogix safety controllers and Ignition Vision for reducing the learning curve for new operators. The KMP 600P is part of Kuka’s latest generation of AMRs for Logistics 4.0 and features intelligence, safety, and easy commissioning to navigate complex, dynamic environments with the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) navigation method. The AMR platform automatically identifies loads with QR code readers, and 3D cameras detect obstacles in three-dimensional spaces. It can transport up to 600 kg and is particularly suitable for compact production environments.

Kuka System Partner DGT used a KR Iontec robot to demonstrate automated product picking and packing with its case packing cell, which is designed to pack products of any shape or size. The cell’s custom-made grippers ensure accurate product gripping and loading and are equipped with a KR Iontec that has a maximum reach of 2,101 mm and a rated payload of 70 kg that can subsequently be adjusted even after mounting. The KR Iontec provides users the highest output with a low total cost of ownership and high life cycle efficiency.

The KR Iontec family of robots is an extremely versatile six-axis medium payload robot that can be floor, wall, ceiling, or angle mounted, and its optimized design is well-suited to compact cells with a small footprint. Boasting a best-in-class work envelope and equipped with waterproof and dustproof in-line wrist and protected motors, the KR Iontec is suitable for virtually any application. The Hygienic Oil (HO) variant of the KR IONTEC uses food-compatible H1 oil in all axes to eliminate the potential for contamination in the food processing and manufacturing sectors.

Kuka’s KR Cybertech HO robot was on display through Kuka System Partner Blue Onyx and equipped with a 3D vision system from Sick Sensor Intelligence for full 3D scanning and measurement using intelligent 3D cameras. The display involved automated conveyor picking and placing of oddly shaped objects into trays or bins.

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