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Machinery

Filling, Capping & Sealing

Machine Product Brief
| October 31, 2001

Volumetric dial filler

FEMC’s (Bedford Heights, OH) angular dial filler for IQF products doesn’t use a scraper to level product, which can cause product damage and adversely affect weight control.
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Flavor Delite's products are checked by the on-line X-ray system at speeds to 62/min. It even detects underfilled canisters.
Machine Case Study
| October 31, 2001

X-ray system spices up on-line QA

An X-ray inspection system at Flavor Delite checks for ?anything? out of the ordinary inside canisters of seasonings, including clumps. A ?guardian angel? for the line, the system confirms packaged product weight, too.
Machine Case Study
| October 31, 2001

New line boasts new sterilizing technology

Adelholzener of Germany is leading the charge when it comes to popularizing one-way plastic beverage bottles in a region that has long resisted this package format.
New filling equipment has helped Yofarm improve accuracy and consistency in filling toppings for its YoCrunch line of yogurt.
Machine Case Study
| October 31, 2001

Yogurt producer fills craving for higher throughput

Yofarm reduces waste dramatically with a new auger filler that achieves consistent volume control of yogurt toppings.
Machine Case Study
| October 31, 2001

Delivering for dairy

Oberweis Dairy’s investment in new filling, capping, labeling, conveying, bottle-packing, and shrink-wrapping machinery begins to pay off with the introduction of single-serve milks.
The system shown here includes a robotic positioner that picks a bundle of 12-count corrugated shippers, orients the bundle, cut
Machine Case Study
| September 30, 2001

Machinery brings the future to Latrobe

The front end of this glass line for 12-oz Rolling Rock beer is practically an operator-free zone. Laser-guided vehicles replenish packaging materials on demand. See in-plant video
Latrobe Brewing Co.: Filling and pasteurizing
 Video | September 30, 2001

Latrobe Brewing Co.: Filling and pasteurizing

At this Rolling Rock brewery, the line's two 108-valve fillers (from SIG Beverages) sit side-by-side. Shortly after filling and capping, bottles enter a double-deck pasteurizer, after which they pass through two down-bottle ejectors.
Nature's Way Purewater: Rotary filling
 Video | September 30, 2001

Nature's Way Purewater: Rotary filling

On this bottled water line, the 30-valve rotary gravity-flow filler from Federal Mfg. is said to be among the largest in the water industry running at this high speed of 180 cpm. It operates with no container/no fill functionality.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2001

Checkweigher

A new compact sensing device from ConverTec (Newtown, PA) can measure the net volume of the magnetic contents of any nonmagnetic container to an accuracy of ±0.1%.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2001

Universal joints

Belden’s (Broadview, IL) universal joints can be used in many types of liquid filling, capping canning, and bottling machines that operate in various industries such as food, household, and pharmaceutical.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2001

5-layer blown film coex line

Bandera Luigi (Busto Arsizio, Italy) will present a five-layer blown film coextrusion line. The line features gravimetric dosing and loading equipment with a supervisory system, 5 single-screw extruders, melt filtering units, a 5-layer laterally-fed coextrusion head, the newly developed roll-type bubble calibration baskets, and a rotating upper take-off unit.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2001

Liquid filling systems

Oden Corp. (Buffalo, NY) released a brochure of liquid filling systems. Highlighted are net weight, volumetric, and custom fillers that span the entire spectrum of liquids applications, ranging from free-flowing liquids to viscous, chunky, abrasive, and difficult-to-fill products.
Lengthy line starts with robotic depalletizing where the bagged jugs are picked and placed onto an infeed table for automatic de
Machine Case Study
| September 30, 2001

Big containers, big output done Nature's Way

Nature’s Way Purewater fills 180 1-gal containers/min and packs them into 3-count cases at a rate of 60 cases/min. New $4 million, 2000’-long line includes a case packer that accepts 2.5-gal containers, too. See in-plant video
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 2001

Rotary screw capper

The 10-head Euro/PK™ rotary screw capper from Belvac Production (Lynchburg, VA) allows users to run continuous thread screw closures and sports caps on the same machine, with minimal change parts, and without tool.
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 2001

Auger filler replacement parts

uger Fabrication (Exton, PA) manufactures stainless steel or plastic engineered auger filling machine replacement parts for All-Fill, AMS, GEI Mateer-Burt, Bartelt, Spee-Dee, and Per-Fil.

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