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Filling, Capping & Sealing

Machine Product Brief
| April 30, 2001

Tube filler/closer

The Puma 60 tube filler from Modular Packaging (Pine Brook, NJ) fills and closes metal, plastic, or laminated tubes. The automatic machine operates at speeds to 3길 tubes/hr.
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Machine Product Brief
| April 30, 2001

Liquid filling system

Available as a semiautomatic bench-top unit or fully automatic system, the Servo/Fill® system from Oden (Buffalo, NY) dispenses 0.5 oz to 5 gal of watery, foamy, or viscous liquids into virtually any shape of container.
Among the packaged fresh produce marketed by Reichel Foods are carrots and, most recently, sliced apples.
Machine Case Study
| April 30, 2001

Sliced apples stay fresh for 36 days

Reichel Foods has moved from nacho chips and dip to luncheon meat to PBJ ‘Snax’ to carrots to celery, all in thermoformed trays. Now comes sliced apples with a 36-day refrigerated shelf life.
One of Calhoun's new vf/f/s lines automates packaging from roll stock to manual case packing. Some examples of Calhoun Bend Mill
Machine Case Study
| April 30, 2001

Climbing the ladder of f/f/s technology

Beginning a decade ago, Calhoun Bend Mill started with simple packaging equipment, went through a rebuild upgrade and now has two new vf/f/s machines for bags of its food mixes.
A 10-bucket combination scale feeds a steady supply of sweetened dried cranberries to each waiting case (inset).
Machine Case Study
| March 31, 2001

Bulk-packed Craisins pick up the pace

As demand for its sweetened dried cranberries in 10- and 25-lb boxes continued to increase, Ocean Spray responded with a brand new bag-in-box line.
Machine Product Brief
| March 31, 2001

Redesigned filler/closer

Autoprod (Clearwater, FL) redesigned the RO-A7 rotary filler and closer to include a servo-driven, microprocessor-controlled filler and touchscreen interface.
Machine Case Study
| February 28, 2001

Coders save company its sweet time

Just Born’s ink-jet coders print date codes on cartons and trays of candy with minimal changeover time.
On board the 14-station rotary filler/sealer (above), the upgraded sensor reads the registration mark (left) to orient the tube
Machine Case Study
| February 28, 2001

'Enlightened' registration slashes tube scrap

A move to an upgraded vision sensor for tube registration helps filling at Access Business Group stay out of the dark. Literally.
Unilever's revamped overcap sortation and orientation system smooths out what had been a jam-laden setup.
Machine Case Study
| February 28, 2001

Unilever overcomes overcapping obstacles

Unilever’s overcap sorter/orienter/feeder for aerosol hairsprays lifts production rates by 22% and eliminates constant jams.
Overhead hoppers on each electronic tablet counter are fed by a bucket that travels on demand from a floor-level hopper (inset)
Machine Case Study
| February 28, 2001

New line helps repackaging pay off

Added last August, RxPak’s newest drug repackaging line is notable not only for its level of automation, but also for the senior-friendly, child-resistant closure it applies. See in-plant video
Machine Product Brief
| January 31, 2001

Monobloc system

A combination of a thermoformer, a cartoner and a banding machine, Uhlmann’s (Towaco, NJ) monobloc Blister Express Center is geared toward small production runs in the pharmaceutical industry.
Machine Product Brief
| January 31, 2001

Flexible screw conveyor

With only 1 moving part on Hapman Conveyors’ (Kalamazoo, MI) Helix™ flexible screw conveyor, product changeover takes less than 5 min. Auger is exposed by removing the bottom end cap.
Machine Product Brief
| January 31, 2001

Rotary gravity filler

Fogg Filler’s (Holland, MI) Model FAA-5418 filler features a nitrogen dosing system that creates internal pressure to make PET bottles filled with still beverages more rigid and thus easier to handle.
Machine Product Brief
| January 31, 2001

Scoop feeder

The NESFD machine from New England Machinery (Bradenton, FL) drops and pushes scoops into containers of powdered products without raising product dust that could interfere with tight sealing.
Machine Product Brief
| January 31, 2001

Filler for HMR products

The HMR filler from Osgood (Oldsmar, FL) fills virtually any kind of food, liquids or solids, into preformed clamshells, trays, tubs and other packages.

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