DETROIT — This is a story about a box. That's it, just a box. "It's not rocket science," said Rudy Youell. "It's almost so stupid it's ridiculous. But it's saving so much money it's amazing." His ...

Packaging is an ancient practice. Humans have been improvising containers for holding and transporting things for millennia, from baked clay vases to tanned leather satchels to sawed and nailed wooden ...

Packaging machinery automatically cut corrugated cardboard into boxes sized for incoming product. The box forms around the product. Servomotors and drives let special packaging machines correctly size ...