Secondary Packaging

Crashing pixels rather than steel

What if packaging machinery OEMs could design new machines or make modifications to existing machines and actually run those machines virtually before bending any metal?

January 9, 2017

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Pharmaceutical CMO installs high-speed bottling line

Pharma Tech Industries employs unscrambling, filling, checkweighing, metal detection, capping, sealing, bundling and case packing equipment at its Missouri facility.

December 14, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A vision-based delta robot for food and pharma

Cavanna Packaging Group demos its latest robotic solutions targeted for cookie, cracker, frozen food and pharma applications. The pick-and-place system uses Cognex vision software and Rockwell processors while the carbon fiber two-axis robot can pick up to 50 times per minute in a small footprint.

December 13, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A snack food bag case loader that is hygienic and ergonomic

The HFP Base system from Focke & Co. gently loads snack food bags and pouches into cases within a narrow footprint that is only six feet wide. The clean design has no horizontal surfaces and is "open" for easy operator monitoring.

December 5, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Case packer switches quickly from horizontal to vertical

The "Swing" horizontal and vertical packer (HVP) from Blueprint is a robotic solution for feeding bags, pouches and rigid containers into cases at up to 300 packages per minute. Used with Smart-Trak collation inloading, the HVP's servo-driven robotic end-effector picks and places packages gently into cases.

December 5, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Six Guidelines for Turnkey Packaging Line Integration

These steps can help ensure a smooth packaging line startup in weeks rather than months.

November 28, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Integrated Cartoner with Coding and Verification for Efficient Serialization

The balcony-style Cariba C222 cartoner—with quick 15-minute changeover—connects to the MG2 ACE CT/400 coding and verification unit from MG America for precise indexing and transport of blister packs.

November 18, 2016

Secondary Packaging

An integrated case/tray packer for craft beer cans

The 1210 Combo machine from WestRock combines a DuoDozen secondary packaging machine with a corrugated tray packer to handle 4-packs, 24-packs and virtually any configuration in between at 600 cans per minute.

November 17, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Meeting looming pharma serialization requirements with off-the-shelf technology

A high-speed case packer has been outfitted with serialization equipment for aggregation with less integration time.

November 9, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A pouch case loader offers easy collating for retail-ready cases

The Douglas Trivex SL robotic case loader collates and aligns pouches upright, with one or two product facings, at up to 150 packages per minute.

November 9, 2016

Secondary Packaging

Polypack unveils three new machines at PACK EXPO

Polypack debuted its new all-in-one end-of-line system, glue-free wrapper for tapered cups, and a compact, high-speed pharma bundler machines during PACK EXPO.

November 8, 2016

Secondary Packaging

An easily programmed robot arm uses industry accepted PLC add-on instructions

Yaskawa America's MH12 Motoman robot uses a simple programming platform for PLC-oriented packaging professionals with its MotionWorks IEC LogicWorks programming package.

November 8, 2016

Secondary Packaging

A fully robotic monoblock carton forming/loading/closing system

CAMA North America debuts lean design, cabinet-free technology with ergonomic properties and user-friendly controls.

November 7, 2016