Secondary Packaging

What's hot at PACK EXPO 2008

Delta robots, swirl fillers, sustainable packaging, totally automated changeovers – here’s how to experience the innovation.

November 2, 2008

Flexibles: Page 171

Flexible packaging

Clemson opens retort lab

Hands-on pouched foods laboratory to benefit students and businesses.

October 31, 2008

Flexibles

Flexible-package case-packing reduces material consumption and lowers labor costs

White paper from Goodman Packaging details the technical and operational factors of flexible-package case-packer automation.

October 30, 2008

Flexibles

Grip & Tear Bags combine superior shrink and toughness without compromising O2 barrier properties

Cryovac® Grip & Tear bags are ideal for use with a variety of non-abrasive applications, including fresh red meat, whole chickens, deli meats, and cheese.

October 30, 2008

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

Vertical pouch packaging system saves time and labor

In this video, see how the Cryovac® Onpack Model 2052 high-speed vertical pouch system is designed with multiple lanes so that four packages can be filled at once.

October 30, 2008

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

Leveraging new vertical bagging technology to avoid excessive material costs

White paper from Rennco details the sustainability and cost advantages of eliminating inventories of pre-made bags.

October 29, 2008

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Rennco offers simplified, cost-effective machinery for a variety of products

At the heart of every custom packaging machine is Rennco's uniquely designed constantly heated, coated seal bar that provides a smokeless, odorless, low maintenance sealing system.

October 24, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Reduce labor by automating your stretch wrapper process

Labor is reduced by automating the process of attaching, detaching, and pressing the film tail to the load for both wrappers shown in this video: the Flex HPA and LDA stand-along stretch wrappers.

October 24, 2008

Flexible packaging

Rethinking robotic case packing

To Switchback Group, its robot is much more than a case packer, it’s the centerpiece of ‘soft integration’ between packaging processes on a line.

October 17, 2008

Flexible packaging

Is it a robot? A top loader? A side loader?

It’s all the above. Pro Pack Systems’ latest innovation is something you don’t see every day – a delta 3 robotic case packer. And it packs both horizontal and vertical pack patterns. PACK EXPO booth N-4457.

October 17, 2008

Cartoning

Servo cartoner delivers speed and accuracy

Z Automation’s latest Schneider Electric-equipped servo cartoner features motorized setup and remote diagnostics/operation.

October 17, 2008

Flexibles

Alcan acquires pharmaceutical flexible packaging facility in India

Alcan Global Pharmaceutical Packaging – a division of Alcan Packaging, a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan – has acquired the Chakan flexible packaging plant from Associated Capsules Private Limited in India.

October 15, 2008

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