Machinery

Machine Product Brief
| June 10, 2013

High-speed vision inspection technology for fresh food industry

Designed for the examination of both large and small packaged fresh food products, the CLS Series from Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision is a high-speed, high-precision product package and label inspection system that is robust, and easy to clean, but also flexible, enabling manufacturers to respond quickly to changes in market demand.
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Machine Product Brief
| June 8, 2013

Ultrasonic sealing for snack bags saves material

Herrmann Ultrasonics’ new ultrasonic seal tool uses an anvil contour to create a tight, peelable seal of composite films, similar to a heat seal in appearance, for the chips and snack industry.
Machine Product Brief
| June 7, 2013

PET bottle blow molding machine

Designed to optimize energy consumption, Serac’s SBL (Serac Blow Linear) PET bottle blow molding machine for dairy products and edible oil produces bottles up to 5 liters in size at speeds from 2,400 to 12,000 containers/hr.
Macofar LF 200
Machine Product Brief
| June 6, 2013

Liquid bottle filler

The new Macofar LF 200 product family for filling liquids into bottles was developed by Romaco in response to the sector’s growing demand for high-speed machines.
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Machine Product Brief
| June 6, 2013

Crush tester provides stronger film, paper mill tubes and cores

In order to provide more consistent tubes and cores and overall better quality Newark Recycled Paperboard Solutions is analyzing a new radial crush tester in its tube and core manufacturing.
Standard Series
Machine Product Brief
| June 5, 2013

Bottle wrap labeler

LSI has expanded its already robust line of labeling solutions with the addition of the Standard Series, an economical choice for standard labeling applications.
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Machine Product Brief
| June 5, 2013

Conveyor system

Hytrol’s Unified Drive conveyor system is a quiet, affordable solution with standard lead times that features great design flexibility, requires fewer spare components, little to no maintenance, and a compact drive that assists with lower elevations and obstacles
Through a Modbus TCP connection to the controller, all energy parameters are displayed on the HMI.
OEM Application Note
| June 3, 2013

How to optimize energy usage on a flow wrapper

By putting a variable frequency drive on a crucial vacuum pump and connecting electric power meters to the HMI by way of the controller, ACMA developed a “green machine.”
Small, unstable cylindrical packages can be challenging for shrink-sleeve applications.
Machine Case Study
| June 3, 2013

Shrink-sleeving small cylindrical packages

Cosmetics producer installs specially engineered system to upgrade shrink-sleeve labeling efficiencies.
Machine Product Brief
| June 1, 2013

Label printer

Manufactured and distributed by Graphic Products, DuraLabel’s Lobo custom vinyl label printer is a laptop-sized thermal-transfer label printer designed to meet the needs of general industry, office workers, and field workers.
Machine Product Brief
| May 31, 2013

Robotic pallet wrapper

Providing speeds up to 37 loads/hr., the GW-4100 from ITW Muller is a highly-mobile robotic pallet wrapper that provides product protection and wrapping consistency, improved employee safety, less waste and significant time, and cost-savings over hand-wrapping.
Machine Product Brief
| May 30, 2013

Compression press for single-piece caps

Sacmi’s CCM48 compression press for single-piece caps is able to produce up to 1,600 caps/min. with just 48 molds including caps for CSD, mineral water, hot filling, and CAF (cold aseptic filling) products.
High-speed bagging, less downtime with Triangle's X-series VFFS baggers
 Video | May 29, 2013

High-speed bagging, less downtime with Triangle's X-series VFFS baggers

With fast changeover and speeds up to 150 bags per minute, Model XYS08 from Triangle Package Machinery is a continuous motion bagger that saves customers valuable time and improves productivity.
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PolychimMilliken for web
Materials Product Brief
| May 28, 2013

Thermoforming polypropylene

Polychim, Milliken launch homopolymer PP for converting into packaging.
Machine Product Brief
| May 24, 2013

Depositing system fills multiple package styles

The Yamato Depositor is a custom-designed depositing solution that handles a wide variety of applications, at speeds up to 400 packages/min. when paired with a 6-point discharge Yamato multi-head weigher.
DataMan 60 barcode reader
Machine Product Brief
| May 23, 2013

Expanded barcode reader series

New compact series targets raster and single-line scanner applications.
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Flexibowl 350
Machine Product Brief
| May 23, 2013

Feeder

The Adept FlexiBowl(R) 350 is an innovative feed solution for use with any Adept robot and vision system.
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