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Machinery

Filling, Capping & Sealing

Machine Product Brief
| October 31, 2000

Tabletop monoblocks

Capmatic’s (Montreal North, Quebec, Canada) Bambino FS Monoblocks are designed to package vials with either sterile or nonsterile products. Production speeds vary from 15 to 50 bpm, depending on the size of the vial and functions required.
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Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Hf/f/s pouch system

Producing, filling and sealing as many as 110 pouches/min, the H-110 hf/f/s machine from Prodo-Pak (Garfield, NJ) is recommended for packaging liquids, pastes, powders or granular products.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Microprocessor-controlled filler

Operating at speeds to 400 containers/min, Mateer Burt’s (Exton, PA) Series 9 auger fillers use a microprocessor to control all filling functions.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Sachet/strip packager

Mainly used in the pharmaceutical industry, the Siebler + Goering Model 5000, available from European Packaging (Tennent, NJ), is said to handle anything that needs to be packaged into a 4-side-sealed pouch, such as tablets, caplets, syringes, powder and liquids.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Sterile vial filler

Designed for the production of injectables in sterile conditions, M.A.R.’s (Milan, Italy) M50 is said to fill 420 vials/min. To meet the special needs of sterile rooms, the unit’s mechanical parts are simple and easily maintained, reducing the number of machine panels that need to be opened.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Machine history: automating food weighing

As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, Heat & Control, Inc. (Hayward, CA) will have a bit of history at its exhibit at Pack Expo International.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Rotary overcapper

Series 4000 continuous-motion rotary overcappers from Haumiller Eng. (Elgin, IL) apply spray-thru caps often used on cans of spray paint, household products, cooking sprays and personal-care aerosol products.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Two product filler

Using 12 to 24 fill heads, Pacific Packaging’s (Covina, CA) rotary volumetric filler fills 2 products into 1 container, with the ratio between products ranging from 20/80 to 50/50.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Tube filler

The Comadis C Series fillers from Key (Englishtown, NJ) fill tubes with liquid, gel, cream or ointment using diving- or fixed-nozzle fill heads.
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 2000

Collet system on overcapper

Quick Disconnect Collet System on overcapper from Haumiller (Elgin, IL) is designed to reduce parts changeover time by 90%. No tools needed. Said to be user-friendly, system allows customers to change different size and shape cap tooling easily and quickly.
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 2000

Capper

Operating at speeds to 400 caps/min, the CM400 capper from Cozzoli (Plainfield, NJ) offers automatic height adjustment to accommodate a range of container sizes.
Machine Product Brief
| August 31, 2000

Vial transport/ejection

Now Genesis Machinery Products (Exton, PA) offers its vial transport and ejection system for integration with most cappers and with Vial-Trak™, the company’s system for marking vials.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2000

Cappers and crimpers

Capmatic (Montreal-Nord, Quebec, Canada) offers a brochure describing the Jolly series, a multifaceted line of cappers and crimpers. The Jolly series is easily integrated with other Capmatic filling systems and can cap products with standard or unusually shaped caps or bottles at speeds to 60 bpm.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2000

Small container capper

Capping containers as small as 1” in dia or width, the MTC capper from Pneumatic Scale (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) uses magnetic torque control, eliminating moving parts that wear or possibly scuff containers.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2000

Weigher/cartoner for pasta

Integrating its Selectacom combination scale with its ProLine vertical cartoner, Triangle (Chicago, IL) has created a line that weighs and packages 8 oz to 32 oz of pasta at speeds to 160 cartons/min.

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