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Amcor has appointed Eric Roegner as president of Amcor Rigid Plastics. He will succeed Mike Schmitt in the role in mid-November. 

Veritiv Corporation has joined the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS), a program to help sellers, merchants and manufacturers obtain certification of their products as Frustration Free Packaging, Ships-in-Own-Container and Prep-Free Packaging.

JLS Automation has named Markus Franke as Director of Parts and Service, and Steele Burchell as Project and Application Engineering Manager.

In the position, Hideo (Harry) Yonenaga will assume full business responsibility for the growth and expansion of MHI’s advanced line of blister packaging machines.

Mondi and Werner & Mertz will introduce a new, patented 100-percent recyclable pouch with detachable decorative panels in 2019.

OnRobot has acquired Purple Robotics, which developed the world’s first vacuum gripper specifically for cobots. 

The company has named Serge Abou-Jaoudé Vice President, Dorner Europe; Todd Kaull Vice President, Global Operations; and Anthony Sherrill as Regional Manager, Louisiana and Texas.

Avery Dennison Corp. and Ocean Recovery Alliance, founders of Plasticity Forum, aim to collaborate across the industry to discover, connect and facilitate solutions to create innovative prevention programs for plastic pollution.

Sun Chemical’s Security Division will operate under the brand name of Luminescence, the manufacturer of security and brand protection inks that Sun Chemical acquired earlier this year. Luminescence will remain a standalone business, headed by Paul Cooper. 

The Danish company celebrates unprecedented sales, awarding Kay Manufacturing from Chicago a golden cobot for purchasing its 25,000th unit.