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Robotics sweeten WIP at World’s Finest Chocolate
Optimizing Work In Process through robotics was critical at this Chicago confectionery company, while new flow wrapping equipment gives chocolate bars a new look.
Primary packaging
Nordson Corporation: Nordson Corporation: Nordson Corporation: Leaflet tipping system
Longford offers a machine that feeds and tips multifolded pharmaceutical leaflets onto other leaflets, backer cards, or carriers at speeds to 18ꯠ leaflets/hour with an accuracy of ± 1/32”.
Primary packaging
Platinum Packaging Inc.: Friction feeding for gift box blanks
Contract packager Platinum Packaging employs nearly 50 Longford friction feeders that deliver gift box blanks from a magazine onto a lugged conveyor for downstream shrink wrapping. Feeders can also be set up to deliver calendars to a plow so that another downstream feeder can insert a paperboard card into the calendar. Dong so helps provide rigidity to the calendar after it's shrink-wrapped.
Materials & containers
Shrink wrapping shines at Platinum Packaging
New automatic feeding and shrink-wrapping equipment at this Gurnee, IL, contract packager adds capacity to collate and wrap gift boxes, calendars, and other specialty items.See video
Flexible packaging
Longford International LTD: Longford International LTD: Pouch dispenser
The DF-375 dispenser from Longford (Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) cuts and distributes pouches from rollstock at speeds to 250 pouches/min. Often used to dispense oxygen scavengers and desiccants, the machine can handle virtually any pouched product.
Primary packaging
Tiny patch 'dots' pharmaceutical landscape
Noven Pharmaceuticals employs a new cartoner to help introduce an estrogen replacement therapy patch sold to pharmacies and merchandised free as physician samples.
Flexible packaging
Longford International LTD: Microprocessor-controlled bander
Longford's (Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) automatic BR900 bander is a microprocessor-controlled machine that bands paper products such as envelopes and lottery tickets at speeds to 40 packs/min.
Controls & automation
Longford International LTD: Batch-count feeder
The model B850RT batch-count feeder from Longford Equipment (Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) is suitable for items such as greeting cards, envelopes, paper sheets and stamps.
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Legal battle won by leaflet label maker
Inprint Systems succeeded recently in defending its patent (U.S. 4680080) on Extended Text(TM) leaflet labels. The dispute arose in 1991 and concerned the apparatus for the production of the labels.
