Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Morningstar Foods: Accumulation on ESL dairy line

On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, this pressureless accumulation system from Hartness International provides up to 15 minutes of crucial accumulation time between filling/capping and labeling.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Morningstar Foods: Labeling on ESL dairy line

On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, labels are cut from rolls and placed over the bottles by shrink sleeve labelers from American Fuji Seal, just ahead of a shrink tunnel.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Labeling room

On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, PET bottles are uprighted by a Pace Packaging unscrambler and sent through a roll-fed labeler from Trine Labeling Systems. Labeled bottles are then elevated up and conveyed out of the labeling room.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Filling/capping

On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, the 28-head rotary filler from Federal Mfg., which features a computerized clean-in-place system, is followed by a 12-head rotary capper from Portola Packaging.

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Reusable/Returnable

Anderson Erickson Dairy of Des Moines: Drop packer

On this single-serve plastic bottle line for milk and juices, filled, capped, and labeled, bottles are drop-packed into reusable plastic crates.

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Controls & Machine Components

Kliklok-Woodman: 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. Combines the carton size flexibility of lugless systems with the positive control of conventional flighted machines.

December 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Kliklok-Woodman: Vertical Form-Fill-Seal Systems with Net Weight, Volumetric or Auger Filling

Kliklok-Woodman's range of vertical form-fill-seal systems includes solutions for every bag size, speed, and space requirement.

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Flexibles

Rennco Packaging Machines: Voyager Vertical L-Bar Sealer

Voyager Vertical L-Bar Sealer is versatile, easy to change over, and operates at speeds to 60 packages/min. New, advanced seal technology means smooth operation of the 14""x24"" seal assembly at increased speeds.

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Conveying & accumulation

NJM/CLI: Tablet Counters / Cappers / Labelers

Tablet Counter - Model Cremer CF-1220 Quad The Cremer Quad features four counting heads and a four-lane filling conveyor with a servo-driven infeed divider and a servo-driven collection device to fill up to 220 cpm based on 100-count bottles in a space-saving 24-foot footprint.

December 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Krones, Inc.: Krones VODM-PET Filler for cold aseptic filling of juice

The PET-Asept process used at Pomdor enables the company to bottle sensitive, heavily acidic carbonated beverages and heavily acidic beverages with a fruit juice content and a pH value below 4.5.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Krones, Inc.: Krones VKP-PET Filler for CSD

Happyland Company, Moscow, Russia 0.5 L, 1.5 L, and 0.48 L PET bottles; 300 cpm PET line Krones 2-channel Variojet rinser is BLOC-synchronized with fill-to-level VKP-PET filler.

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Closures

Pack Expo 2004: RoboBar robotic bartender

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Motoman is introducing its RoboBar robotic bartender to acclaim of happy customers at its booth, S-1495, at Pack Expo International 2004. Machine, built with traditional packaging-related robotic components, is programmed to mix and pour alcoholic drinks to specification. Dual-armed, high-speed robot is equipped with a color LCD display screen, a touch screen programmed to accept the customers order, a magnetic card reader (optional), stainless-steel bar with safety enclosure, a cup dispenser, beer tap tower, ice maker, and a soda and juice dispensing tower. Machine can be purchased, leased, or rented. Cheers!

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Conveying & accumulation

'Tall blonde' runs on modified line

Carolina Beer & Beverage, LLC, a regional craft brewer in Mooresville, NC, faced constraints in introducing its “Tall blonde” plastic bottle last year (see Feb. , p. 2) included costs.

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