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

Bagger offers quick changeover for multiple styles

At Pack Expo Las Vegas, Triangle Package Machinery Co. exhibited its A612 model computer scale and XYT vf/f/s bagger, with an integrated transverse zipper applicator. Triangle’s focus on centerlining allows for easy changeover of a range of bag styles, including pillow, flat-bottom, quad-seal, and gusseted.

October 30, 2011

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Secondary Packaging

New 250 cpm rotary shrink wrapper

A new high speed rotary shrink wrapper from Extreme Packaging Machinery has a throughput of 250 packs per minute with smooth cross-seal operation. An integrated servo-driven control system from B&R Industrial Automation simplifies control software and hardware, allows bag size changes while staying in synch with the product, and assures strong seals at high speeds.

October 27, 2011

Secondary Packaging

Overwrappers offer sustainable packaging advantages

Package Machinery Company makes overwrapping machinery that is customized, flexible, cost effective and fast -- up to 150 cpm. Low energy and film consumption make these overwrappers a sustainable alternative to other wrapping methods. Their third generation of controls, from B&R Industrial Automation, uses servos to reduce moving parts by 65%, maximize uptime and provide the flexibility to run multiple SKUs with minimal changeover.

October 27, 2011

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

V/f/f/s machine has optimized machine movements

The vertical form/fill/seal machine shown at Pack Expo by Sharp greatly broadens this manufacturer’s product offerings.

October 23, 2011

Secondary Packaging

Automatic detection of unstable pallet wrapping

Leanwrap stretch wrapping is a Lantech concept that measures containment force on a wrapped load so that the quality of the containment force can be known automatically.

October 23, 2011

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

F/f/s for gusseted bags

Model G-14 form/fill/seal system from Fres-Co System produces stand-up gusseted pouches with four-corner seal and fold-over tin tie.

October 23, 2011

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Mail-order pharmacy fulfillment system

The Script Pack Sprint from Automated Packaging Systems first scans products as they are conveyed to the packaging area, prints and loads the literature insert, verifies and loads the product into a bag, and then seals the bag.

October 23, 2011

Secondary Packaging

Rotary arm stretch wrapper

Electrowrap rotary arm stretch wrapper from Arpac is fully automatic and uses no pneumatics.

October 23, 2011

Flexible packaging

Pro Mach acquires Matrix Packaging Machinery

Pro Mach, Inc. has announced that Matrix Packaging Machinery will join its Primary Packaging Business Unit expanding Pro Mach’s primary packaging solutions.

October 17, 2011

Flexible packaging

Transdermal patch system

The Custom Delta Mod-Tech System can be built with many different process modules, allowing fast changeover.

October 17, 2011

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

Automatic weigh scale with bagger and printer

This bagging/filling/printing system features a Weigh Right automatic scale and Sharp Packaging Systems MaxPlus bagger.

October 17, 2011

Flexibles

U.S. demand for flexible packaging to exceed $18 billion in 2015

Study indicates that deceleration in raw material price growth, as well as flexible packaging’s lightweight properties will push demand for the converted material.

October 14, 2011

Flexibles

Stretch film approved for direct-food contact

Designed for direct contact with food of all kinds, Duo Food Contact is a blown stretch film from Duo Plast that features extreme elongation and tear strength so that the film’s thickness can be reduced and significant material savings can be realized.

October 12, 2011