Conveying & accumulation

Live roller merge conveyor

From Nercon comes the Live Roller metering and merging conveyor, which uses the concept of stalling products on the conveyor until they are in the proper sequence.

October 6, 2008

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Bag sealer/labeler

Belco Packaging Systems has purchased the manufacturing rights to the MAXX 5 bag top sealer-labeler from American Design and Packaging.

October 6, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Rotary hot-air bag sealers elevate operating efficiencies

Contract packer installs four units to accommodate high-speed, high-production demands of major paper products manufacturer.

October 4, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Enhanced vf/f/s

The robag® 3 vf/f/s packaging system from tna includes new kanga jaw technology for high-quality, specialty bag formats and long bag applications such as cereals and frozen foods.

October 3, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Oliver Medical names new VP of Marketing/Sales

Jeff Murak has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Oliver Medical.

September 1, 2008

Flexible packaging

Swirl technology to the rescue

Campina Deutschland wanted to switch from preformed pudding cups to cups that are thermoformed from rollstock and then filled in line. But what about those swirls?

August 31, 2008

Cartoning

Video shows robotic cartoning, case-pack, flow-wrap turnkey line for candy and snack bars

Video clip shows a turnkey line from flow wrapping through shrink bundling, featuring equipment from Bradman Lake.

August 11, 2008

Sustainability

Companies

August 1, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

Automatic horizontal bagging

WeighPack’s automatic horizontal bagging machine, the Zippy Bagger, uses a rotary sealing head to ensure straight and even seals.

July 1, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Boost bag fill/seal throughput

Video from Bosch Rexroth shows how new technology achieves higher throughput in bag fill/seal with non-contact handling.

June 30, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

High-speed bagging system with real-time bag printing

Automated Packaging Systems Autobag® AB 180 Print-n-Pack™ System provides flexible solutions for high-productivity packaging operations with the advantage of real-time printing directly onto the bag.

June 30, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Speaking out on soaring raw material prices to consumer trends driving package design

Flexible packaging manufacturer ISO Poly president Dale Brockman speaks out on industry issues. A candid interview with Packaging World.

June 27, 2008

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Chuck Cloud, of Cloud Packaging, has died

Charles E. "Chuck" Cloud, inventor and former principle owner of Cloud Corp., now Cloud Packaging, passed on June 14, 2008.

June 26, 2008