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Conveying, Accumulation & Feeding

Heavy-duty stainless steel hydraulic container dumper

Machine Product Brief

| December 19, 2012

Heavy-duty stainless steel hydraulic container dumper

Unit has a 7,500# capacity with a 110” discharge height.

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Machine Product Brief

| December 6, 2012

Heavy load transport

The Trundler from Allen Field is a system utilizing wheels and feet that eases the movement of heavy and awkward packs, containers, cartons, and display units.

Machine Product Brief

| November 30, 2012

Bulk bag discharging system

The Material Master Bulk Bag Discharging System from Material Transfer features a fork-lift loaded bulk bag lifting frame with adjustable height receiving frame.

Video | November 29, 2012

Energy efficiency in conveying

At System Plast, an Emerson Industrial Automation business, a new-generation belting material product and wear track material was on display to show how much energy they could save. A holographic boat man contributed to the message.

Material Master bulk bag discharging system

Machine Product Brief

| November 28, 2012

Bulk bag discharging system

Material Transfer's patented 304 stainless steel MATERIAL MASTER™ BULK BAG DISCHARGING SYSTEM provides dust-tight unloading of materials.

Machine Product Brief

| November 26, 2012

Grates remove ferrous contamination in hoppers, chutes

Available in three magnet strengths, Eriez’ economical ProGrade square, rectangular and round grates remove ferrous contamination in hoppers, chutes, floor openings and other areas where free flowing materials are present.

Machine Product Brief

| November 19, 2012

Bulk bag unloader

Handles caustic material, uses enclosed, 4-stage process to condition compressed material, and prepares material for downstream processing.

Machine Product Brief

| November 15, 2012

Extra low profile sanitary sifter

The Ultra Sanitary Sifter Model K30-1FT-SS from Kason Corporation minimizes height requirements while increasing screening capacity.

Video | November 7, 2012

Innovative & Integrated Container Handling Solution, designed to meet our customer's needs

The Smart divider shown here can be designed for lane separation based on your needs – color, orientation, defects. The combiner handles this container smoothly and see the innovative cross-laner is designed specifically to meet this customer's needs.

Machine Product Brief

| November 5, 2012

Automated bulk material mixing system

National Bulk Equipment’s Automated Bulk Material Mixing System is designed specifically for fully-automated introduction, transfer, mixing, and blending of multiple, sluggish materials to produce such homogenous blends that downstream production scrap is virtually eliminated.

Video | October 28, 2012

Sanitary food packaging conveyors with integrated vision and robotic re-orientation

Eaglestone Equipment shows-off sanitary food packaging conveyors with integrated vision and robotic pick-and-place re-orientation of products on the conveyor.

Machine Product Brief

| October 23, 2012

Bulk bag/drum discharger with bag break station

Material Transfer’s Material Master Bulk Bag/Drum Discharger with Bag Break Station is a custom-designed unit featuring dual hoists with motorized trolleys and monorail system.

Video | October 16, 2012

Pack Expo 2012 eye candy: high-speed robotic pick/place, infeed through end-of-line

From personal care to food (in this video, candy bars) this high-speed automatic packaging line delivers elegantly simple, single multi-servo axis control to reduce costs and space requirements while adding modular flexibility and operator interface ease. Billy Goodman, Managing Director of Cama USA, gives you a preview of the machine mated with a flowwrapping machine and conveyor. The same 'tech' handles end-of-line applications. Watch it, then see it running on the Expo floor!

Machine Product Brief

| October 15, 2012

Product concentrator improves throughput

Form-fill-seal bagging operations running at 60 narrow bags/min. (3.5 in. across or less) can expect speeds between 100 to 120 units/min. on Matrix machines featuring the patented SmartGate product concentrator.

Video | October 11, 2012

Divide and Conquer with this Multi-Lane Solution

See how Morrison Container Handling Solutions System divides a high speed line into 4 lanes for flexible intermittent filling and then utilizes controlled combining to get back to the high speed requirements.

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machinery: Conveying

Advanced Antivibration Components

Dorothena Bonham,
Assistant Vice President and General Manager

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Machine levelers and isolators to miminize airborne noise and structural vibration.
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Over 8000 off-the-shelf items in our portfolio with 24-hour online purchasing, pricing and availability. Levelers include FDA approved Teknoclean for Food, Dairy and Pharmaceutical Packaging. They are corrosion resistance which are ideal for washdown applications.

TEKNOCLEAN
CONSTANT NATURAL FREQUENCY MOUNTS
3-IN-1 CARRYING MOUNT
ANTIVIBRATION LEVELING MOUNTS
APACKS

Todd Cannon,
President

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Turn-Key Filling Lines, Liquid Filling Machines, Capping Machines, Conveyors, Labelers,
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We listen to your unique challenges and provide the best custom fillers, cappers, conveyors, and labelers that will increase automation, speed up production, improve accuracy, and reduce downtime while maintaining complete flexibility. Learn about our risk free guarantee.

Complete Filling Solutions
Automatic Piston Filler
Automatic Spindle Capping Machine
Bottling Conveyors
Columbia Machine

Ted Yeigh,
Sales Director of Palletizer Division

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High-level, floor-level, robotic hybrid palletizers, load transfer stations & systems
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Columbia puts the highest priority on safety, has the broadest palletizer line and offers the best value in the industry. With the most standard features, unparalleled machine flexibility and superior after sales support Columbia has a palletizing solution for your needs

High Speed, Floor Level Palletizer
Floor Level Palletizer with Stretch Wrapper
High Level Palletizer
High Speed High Level Palletizer
Eriez Magnetics

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Process equipment for magnetic, vibratory and inspection applications.

E-Z Tec Metal Detector for Food
E-Z Tec X-Ray Inspection System
Vibratory Feeders, Screeners and Conveyors
Grate, Plate and Trap Magnets to remove Ferrous Contaminants
EXAIR Corporation

Bryan Peters,
President

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EXAIR manufactures products to blowoff, dry, cool, vacuum, convey, & eliminate static.
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EXAIR Corporation manufactures Intelligent Compressed Air® products that provide innovative ways to blowoff, dry, cool, vacuum, convey, lift & eliminate static electricity. EXAIR products have been engineered to improve the efficiency of a wide range of industrial processes.

PVDF Super Air Knife
Model 1114SS Large Super Air Nozzle
Award Winning Chip Trapper
Air Operated Conveyor - Line Vac
Heat and Control, Inc.

Brian Barr,
Sales manager, packaging systems

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Weighers, conveyors, inspection, filling, packaging, food processing equipment, controls.
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With Heat and Control, one call delivers the latest technology in weighing, conveying, packaging & inspection equipment. We support you from start to future with complete engineering, installation, service, parts, training and technical support from offices worldwide.

Multihead weigher
Proportional distribution conveyors, on-machine seasoning
Vertical form/fill/seal bagmakers
Metal detector, checkweigher
Ryson International, Inc.

Ole Rygh,
President, CEO

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Ryson Spiral Vertical Conveyors have a small footprint and are fast and reliable.
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Like to save space, increase throughput and minimize the cost of ownership? Ryson can help. Our Spiral Conveyors need less floor space than conventional conveyors and are faster and more reliable than any elevator or lift.

Ryson Unit Load Spiral Conveyor
Ryson High Capacity Spiral Conveyors
Ryson Mass Flow Spiral Conveyors
Multiple Entry Spiral Conveyors
SEW-Eurodrive USA

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Gearmotors, Frequency Inverters, Servos, Decentralized Drive Systems, Industrial Gears
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For over 81 years SEW-Eurodrive has been providing the highest quality products and solutions for the drive industry. Our modular product system allows for customized solutions without the "custom" price tag. Our goal is simple - keep our customers moving.

K Series Gearbox with DR Motor (standard product)
Movidrive
X Series Gearbox (Industrial Gears)
Movimot (motor with integrated frequency inverter)
tna North America, Inc.

Alfredo Blanco,
VP, Americas

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VFFS baggers, multi-head scales, conveying, seasoning, spraying and verification equipment
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tna is a leading global supplier of integrated food packaging solutions including spraying, distribution, seasoning, weighing, packaging, metal detection and identification solutions, plus system controls & integration solutions.

vertical form, fill and seal
seasoning systems
horizontal and vertical motion conveying systems
spraying systems