Flexible packaging

Suppliers focus more on contract packagers

Many packaging suppliers have realized a shift in sales toward contract packagers. Some say CP business has helped ‘sustain’ their companies.

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Conveying & accumulation

Global Beverage Systems: Tray packing for bottled water line

On this bottled water line, following automatic lane dividers, bottles are collated and tray packed on equipment from Vantage Pak. Pressure-sensitive print-and-apply labelers from Loveshaw apply product ID and date code to each side of the tray before it enters an Arpac shrink wrapper. Then an incline conveyor takes finished trays to a remote palletizer.

December 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Morningstar Foods: Accumulation on ESL dairy line

On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, this pressureless accumulation system from Hartness International provides up to 15 minutes of crucial accumulation time between filling/capping and labeling.

December 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Morningstar Foods: Labeling on ESL dairy line

On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, labels are cut from rolls and placed over the bottles by shrink sleeve labelers from American Fuji Seal, just ahead of a shrink tunnel.

December 31, 2001

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Labeling room

On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, PET bottles are uprighted by a Pace Packaging unscrambler and sent through a roll-fed labeler from Trine Labeling Systems. Labeled bottles are then elevated up and conveyed out of the labeling room.

December 31, 2001

Labeling

Krones, Inc.: Modular Labeling System Provides Maximum Flexibility

Krones Modul System delivers maximum application flexibility via modular, interchangeable labeling stations. Working off its plug-and-label principle, the Modul labeler combines multiple labeling techniques such as cold-glue, pressure-sensitive, hot-melt roll-fed, and hot-melt pre-cut wraparound labels all on a single machine base.

December 31, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Loveshaw: Print-and-apply case labeler

The LS-800/DT is a patent pending multi-purpose print and apply label application system. One applicator will cornerwrap, dual-tamp or single tamp on any top, side or back panel. Changeover is easy; switch the label stock and press a couple of buttons on the microprocessor driven controller.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Label-Aire: High-speed, wipe-on, pressure-sensitive labeler

The NEW Label-Aire Model 3125 (shown in the video with existing conveyor, feedscrew and wrap belt) represents the ultimate in high-speed wipe-on pressure-sensitive labeling technology.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Weber Marking Systems, Inc.: Model 5100 Series Twin-Tamp Label Printer-Applicator

Weber’s Model 5100 Twin-Tamp label printer-applicator combines a high-performace thermal/thermal-transfer label printer with a specially configured applicator to satisfy the printing and two-label, adjacent-panel application of carton labels in line.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Label-Aire: Label-Aire 3038 Printer Applicator with Stepper Tamp shown labeling products of rando

The Model 3038 with Stepper Tamp can print and apply labels to products of random sizes on the same conveyor line eliminating time-consuming positioning adjustments!

December 31, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Weber Marking Systems, Inc.: Model 5200 label printer-applicator

Offering a wide range of on-demand printers—from renowned vendors such as Zebra Technologies—the new Model 5200 Series provides crisp text, in-spec bar codes, and eye-catching graphics at 203- or 300-dpi resolution.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Weber Marking Systems, Inc.: Bottle Wrap Labeler

Weber’s versatile Alpha 86 Bottle Wrap System provides fast and accurate positioning of full, overlap and partial-wraps of pressure-sensitive labels on cylindrical containers.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

NJM/CLI: Tablet Counters / Cappers / Labelers

Tablet Counter - Model Cremer CF-1220 Quad The Cremer Quad features four counting heads and a four-lane filling conveyor with a servo-driven infeed divider and a servo-driven collection device to fill up to 220 cpm based on 100-count bottles in a space-saving 24-foot footprint.

December 31, 2001