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waste by minimizing the amount of material shipped per packaging, and also helps give customers an “easy-to- open” experience. BHS Corrugated, Highcon Announce New Strategic Partnership Weiherhammer, Germany based BHS Corrugated Maschin- en- und Anlagenbau GmbH and Yavne, Israel based High- con Systems Ltd. announced a Strategic Partnership to serve the industry's needs for digitalization and automa- tion in the corrugated packaging market. BHS Corrugated, a provider of solutions for the corru- gated industry, and Highcon recognized that Highcon's unique technology is starting to serve an important role in the core market of BHS Corrugated. Highcon's corrugated packaging and display products have been placed with market leaders, including Pratt Industries, Schumacher, and WestRock. BHS Corrugated said that the incorpora- tion of Highcon's digital die cutting equipment into the Box Plant 2025 strategy of the German company can serve the industry's needs as it moves towards greater automation and digitalization. “Highcon's unique solutions can be a very valuable building block in the digitalization and enhanced opera- tional efficiency of the corrugated industry,” said Christian Engel, Managing Director of BHS Corrugated.

more ways to eliminate and reduce plastic packaging for our customers.” One of the new technologies is a new machine that creates on-demand, curbside-recyclable, made-to-fit packages for products that require more protection than a non-padded bag.

The machine measures an order’s dimensions and creates a right-sized, protective packaging using a type of corrugate that is flexible and lighter than the typical box. It has the largest custom-packaging size range of any other automated machine at Amazon, with the ability to create made-to-fit packaging for roughly half of Amazon’s shipped packages. The made-to-fit technology, paired with a lighter corrugate, allows the machines to reduce

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