Earl Wenger feels a kinship with the antique seed packing machine he spends his days with in the two-man seed packing room at Rohrer Seeds in Lancaster. “The man who invented it was a genius,” says ...

From Butter and Sugar sweet corn to Thumbelina zinnia, thousands of seed packets owe their existence to Gwen Stefani and Boris Karloff. Gardeners, it’s winter and still a bit early to plant seeds.

If you ever engage in online shopping (or even if you don’t), you probably recognize how ubiquitous and space-cluttering cardboard packaging is. But what if every cardboard box you got fromAmazon came ...

Investments in automation and additional tools for data analytics keep coming to packaging lines as plants become more connected. Machine learning and digital twin technology are increasing throughput ...