PELS™ (Packaging End-of-Line Solutions) is an alliance recognizing packagers’ need for a flexible, turnkey solution that integrates and supports a complete secondary packaging system comprising best-in-class solutions from independent suppliers.

Information on PELS will be available at the PELS participants’ PACK EXPO Las Vegas booths listed here.

• Goodman Packaging Equipment (C-3219)
• ELAU Inc. (S-5414), a Company of Schneider Electric (S-5356))
• Packaging Machines International (C-3212)
• Z Automation Company (C-3105)

PELS bridges the gap between a single source, single vendor system and third party systems integrators by taking responsibility beyond each partner’s own machinery.

“Our companies have long worked well together, because we have a shared philosophy of cooperation, innovation and similar manufacturing standards,” explains Zoran Momich, president of PELS and member Z Automation Company. “We’ve partnered with ELAU for an automation solution that is tailored for packaging, provides a common platform that simplifies integration and results in lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).”

“And we will continue to reduce our customers’ TCO,” explains Randy Spahr, vice president of member company Packaging Machines International and vice chair of PMMI, “especially through software innovation and modular, mechatronic design.”

“Our solution also addresses the important issues of sustainability,” notes Bruce Larson, vice president sales and marketing for Goodman Packaging Equipment and chair of the PMMI education committee, “and machinery’s important role in adapting to new packaging materials and designs that use less material.”

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