Flexible packaging

Pack Expo 2004: V5100 vf/f/s baling system

PACK EXPO WEB EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Products showed its V5100 vf/f/s baling system at its booth at Pack Expo International 2004 this week in Chicago. Machine packages finished bags of product into film wrapped bales, eliminating the need for paperboard boxes and premade bags. Machine can run one, two, and three columns of packaged product with a maximum bale weight of 60 lb. Machine is designed to be integrated with other vf/f/s equipment to complete the packaging process.

December 31, 2001

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Conveying & accumulation

Scale system shines at Diamond

A twin-head, triple-pan scale system at Diamond of California’s Robertsdale, AL, plant reduces giveaway, lessens labor costs, and saves on forklift rental costs.

November 30, 2001

Flexible packaging

NECCO mints in a snap

New high-intensity Ultra mints from NECCO (New England Confectionery Co.) reached national retail stores in June packed in a 4 1/2-oz, 1.4-mil polypropylene bag with a laminated cast PP snap closure.

October 31, 2001

Palletizing/depalletizing

Nature's Way Purewater: Depalletizing

On this bottled water line, one of two robots from Custom Metal Designs depalletizes bagged layers of 1-gal containers and places them onto the infeed of the debagging system. The output of each of the twin units is nearly two LDPE-bagged layers/min, or a total of 180 containers/min.

September 30, 2001

Flexible packaging

Integration issues squeeze machinery builders (sidebar)

Respondents: Packagers don’t appreciate engineering costs

September 30, 2001

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

Lettuce in twin MAP packs

"Fresh now and fresh later," is how spokeswoman Robin Sprague of Fresh Express, Salinas, CA, describes the company's new Twin Pack of attached side-by-side bags of lettuce. "Consumers can use half of the pack immediately, and keep the other bag under modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) conditions to maintain freshness," she informs Packworld.com. "It's a unique concept that offers more convenience to consumers."

August 31, 2001

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

Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Web-enabled hf/f/s machine

Hooper Engineering (Sarasota, FL) touts the N2500 horizontal f/f/s system as the world’s first Web-enabled packaging machine. It packages food, pharmaceutical, medical devices, and other products into packs formed from rollstock.

August 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Machine builders weigh in on safety issues

What are packaging machinery manufacturers’ plans for keeping their equipment operating safely and ergonomically? Exclusive Packworld.com survey reveals which safety devices are most popular.

August 31, 2001

Flexible packaging

Packaging technologies blossom at seed company

Filling of plant seeds into cans and pouches sold to commercial growers took a big step forward when Seminis built a new plant. Front-and-back labeling systems are standouts.

August 31, 2001

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

Printer/bagger lets Statcorp pack 'stat'

Maker of blood-pressure cuffs adds an imprinting bagger to cut labor and label costs, while productivity soars.

August 31, 2001

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

Bakery wraps up production rates

Mail-order bakery Bellows House Bakery, Walpole, NH, found a resolution to high labor costs and low production rates in packaging its grab-and-go cookies and brownies. In fall ’99, manual labor and semi-automatic sealing was replaced by a Fuji-Formost (Woodinville, WA) Model FW-340mII horizontal form/fill/seal wrapper.

July 31, 2001

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

U.S. Sugar zips into reclosable bags (sidebar)

Zipper application is outsourced

July 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Breakthrough aseptic line at CNP

Two new aseptic lines are capable of filling either 500-mL or 1-L brick pack cartons. FIFO accumulation system and remote robotic palletizing also shine.

June 30, 2001