Controls & Machine Components

Kliklok-Woodman (Product): Vari-Right right-angle top-load carton closer

New Vari-Right right-angle top-load carton closer is the first system of its kind to offer a continuously variable pitch conveying design, according to supplier. Combines the carton size flexibility of lugless systems with the positive control of conventional flighted machines. I

December 31, 2002

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

Luciano Packaging: Vf/f/s machine

Luciano Packaging Technologies introduces its V-Series flat-bottom bag vf/f/s systems, including a machine designed for dependable high-speed operation called the cantilevered V-Series.

December 31, 2002

Closures

Creating a competitive design

When Northfield, MN-based Malt-O-Meal Co. decided to position its line of ready-to-eat value cereals as a direct competitor of national boxed brands, they enlisted Mackey Szar (Minneapolis, MN) to redesign the cereal line’s packaging to reflect this new strategy.

December 31, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

USDA voluntary allergen-labeling guidelines

The U.S. Department of Agricultures’s Food Safety and Information Service will consider any nonmisleading symbols, statements, or logos that meat and poultry packages might want to use to inform consumers of the presence of potential food allergens in meat, poultry, and eggs.

December 31, 2002

Containers

Vf/f/s, scales speed Janes' progress

New vf/f/s equipment and scale double production, eliminating overtime costs. Machinery also accommodates larger fills and reduces product giveaway at Janes Family Foods.See in-plant video

December 31, 2002

Flexibles

Effective packaging for club stores (sidebar)

Lance repacks for floor display

December 31, 2002

Protective/transport packaging

If at first you don't succeed...

Lamp manufacturer settles on protective packaging that significantly reduces breakage rates, as well as unnecessary costs.

December 31, 2002

Flow wrapping

Horizontal flow wrapper

The Falcon horizontal flow wrapper is available in a single-pack pillow or product-on-edge version and has a product-wrapping capacity of speeds in excess of 150 ppm.

December 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Wafers won't crumble under robotic handling

Bahlsen, a German manufacturer of cakes and biscuits, has modernized a packaging line with 24 SIG Delta Robots from SIG Pack Systems AG (Beringen, Switzerland).

November 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Rohm and Haas (Philadelphia, PA) is relocating its pilot coating and lamination equipment to a new facility at its Ringwood, IL mfg. facility.

November 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Flexible packaging and labeling winners unwrapped

During Pack Expo, ExxonMobil Chemical (Macedon, NY) recognized excellence and innovation in flexible packaging and labeling at its 16th annual Golden Mummy and Pyramid Awards ceremony, held November 5 in Chicago. There was a total of seven winners.

November 30, 2002

Beverage

See Janes run

New folding-carton erecting and sealing equipment improves efficiency and lowers labor and material costs for two Janes Family Foods plants in Canada.See in-plant video

November 30, 2002

Closures

Super-sized cookie can

Buffalo, New York-based KK Baking decided to stack its super-sized Keith’s Kookies-brand cookies in a new composite can that emulates a cookie jar topped with a polyethylene overcap to lock in freshness after opening.

November 30, 2002