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End of line: Palletizing & Stretch Wrapping

Machine Product Brief
| November 30, 2000

Drum palletizer

Newcastle’s (New Castle, PA) 100-57D automatic drum palletizer moves filled drums onto wooden or plastic pallets. Handling plastic, fiber or steel drums in 15-, 30- or 55-gal sizes, the machine comes with an adjustable dispenser for various pallet sizes, and it loads 1 or 2 tiers of drums in 2x2, 3x3 or partial configurations.
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Machine Product Brief
| November 30, 2000

Case palletizers

From Top Tier (North Adams, MA) come two new case palletizers: End-of-Line (EOL) for floor-level operation and the Tower for higher infeed configurations.
Machine Product Brief
| November 30, 2000

Palletizers for bags, bales

AP-400 Series palletizers from Premier Tech (Riviere, Quebec, Canada) are designed and built to stack bags and bales square on a pallet automatically.
Machine Product Brief
| November 30, 2000

Stretch wrapper

IPM (Naples, FL) introduces the 10/10 series of stretch wrappers that can wrap pallet loads as heavy as 4ꯠ lb and as tall as 120”. Adjustable-speed turntable offers speeds up to 15 revolutions/min.
Machine Product Brief
| November 30, 2000

Bag palletizer

Bag palletizer from Columbia Machine (Vancouver, WA) is constructed to provide at least 25 years of service life, says company. Said to save labor and injury costs by replacing hand stacking of bags.
For its foodservice business, Mother Parker's sells bags of ground coffee under its own name as well as for brands it contract p
Machine Case Study
| November 30, 2000

Paired vf/f/s equipment 'brews' foodservice packs

By adding two vf/f/s machines, Mother Parker’s Tea & Coffee meets growing sales demand for small bags of ground coffee sold primarily to restaurants and hotels.
Machine Product Brief
| November 30, 2000

Tray stacker

Standard-Knapp (Portland, CT) has introduced the Continuum 296I tray stacker. Two tiers of trays are created before trays enter the shrink wrapper, thereby doubling tray output for the same packs/min rate.
Machine Product Brief
| October 31, 2000

Bag palletizer

Using a belt conveyor and stripper plate, Build-Pal bag palletizers from Newtec (Tampa, FL) automatically layer, square and flatten bags of bulk solids at speeds to 120 pallets/hr.
Machine Product Brief
| October 31, 2000

Gantry-style palletizer

The Impact palletizer is a robotic, gantry-style pick-and-place system from Comman (Waalwijk, The Netherlands). Loading trays and boxes at speeds to 12 products/min, the machine stacks products in the pattern selected via touchscreen.
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Supplier News
| October 31, 2000

Web sites that work

Call it revenge of the brick-and-mortars. As the valuations of business-to-business “dot com” companies deflate over unrealistic expectations, traditional firms—in this case packaging suppliers—continue to roll out useful Web sites that help packaging buyers.
Machine Product Brief
| October 31, 2000

Wrapper/weigher

After wrapping a pallet load weighing up to 4ꯠ lb, Air Technical’s (Mentor, OH) LPEZ stretch wrapper provides a digital readout of the total weight, avoiding an additional move to a scale.
The labeler uses two parallel conveyors (below). In this photo, an open, toothbrush-filled case enters the machine from the conv
Machine Case Study
| October 31, 2000

Radius applies labeler to Fisher-Price application

Unusual new labeler at Radius Corp. closes a plastic case around a Fisher-Price toothbrush, then applies a TE label that wraps around three sides of the case.
Machine Product Brief
| October 31, 2000

Low-level palletizer

The KES 2190 low-level palletizer from Kaufman (Waterville, OH) uses an encoder to track the position of the carriage lift. This information is communicated to the motor controller and then to the system’s PLC, which uses the information to maintain consistent layer positioning.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Hood stretch wrapper

The KL Mega Stretch machine from KL Lachenmeier, represented in the U.S. by Global Marketing Management Group (Charlotte, NC), opens and stretches the film hood by 60% to 100% as it applies the hood to the load.
Machine Product Brief
| September 30, 2000

Corner board placer for stretch wrappers

Working on all 4 corners at once, the KES Corner Board Placer from Kaufman (Waterville, OH) applies rigid, protective corner boards to pallet loads, locks them in position with tabs on top and bottom sheets just before stretch wrapping.

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