Blueprint Automation’s Bob Prakken, founder and chairman
Bob Prakken, Founder and Chairman of Blueprint Automation, Passes Away
Bob Prakken, founder and chairman of BluePrint Automation, Inc., Colonial Heights, Va., passed away on January 6, 2012, after a long battle with cancer. Seeing an unfilled need for automatic case-packing of flexible bags, Prakken founded BluePrint Automation in 1978 out of the “proverbial garage.” Over the years, the company quickly grew into a multinational operation, with three manufacturing plants employing more than 250 people worldwide.