Conveying & accumulation

Integrated automation: 2004 EEC Seminar message

At the Annual Eastern Equipment Committee Seminar, a first-time attendee walked away with the message that packaging automation is becoming more and more integrated. What’s that mean exactly?

April 30, 2004

Case/tray packing: Page 81

Secondary Packaging

Case erector/bottom sealer

Combi introduces the CE-10 case erector/bottom sealer that erects and bottom tapes 10-12 cases/min. Machine is available for $21ꯠ.

March 31, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Outsourcing, the 'dirty' word of '04?

Just imagine how explosive the political debate over outsourcing would be if U.S. manufacturers didn’t enjoy easy access to such a well-developed and technically proficient network of domestic contract packaging companies?

March 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

HealthPack shines in Florida

Medical device manufacturers continually strive for zero recalls caused by packaging problems. An on-site report on this and other issues from HealthPack 2004.

February 29, 2004

Sustainability

Packagers emphasize environment and economics

Packaging professionals from Estée Lauder/Aveda, Hewlett-Packard, and Bacardi Bottling describe how their companies view packaging that is environmentally sustainable.

February 29, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Feldschloesschen Brewery: Tray packing of beer in PET

Massed bottles move into the Krones Variopac tray packer, where they're divided into lanes and then collated and tray packed.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

American Italian Pasta Co.: Case erecting on a pasta packaging line

Flat case blanks are erected automatically and then sent to the case packing machine from Fallas Automation.

January 31, 2004

Case/tray packing

American Italian Pasta Co.: Case packing on a pasta packaging line

Finished bags are conveyed through a metal detector from Fortress Technologies and a checkweigher from Heat and Control just before case packing from Fallas Automation. Filled cases are taped shut and date coded on their sides.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

T.A.D. acquires S.V. Dice Designers

T.A.D. Packaging Machinery acquired the assets of S.V. Dice Designers.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Controls integration can boost supply chain efficiencies

In researching a March Packaging World story about how controls integration and information technologies can improve supply chain efficiencies, I wound up gathering more information than I could fit in the designated space.

January 31, 2004

Case/tray packing

Case erector

Maxco Machinery Div.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Ingenious integration

An integrated printing system helps this case erector manufacturer reduce machine cost, better meet floor space requirements, and lower maintenance expense.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Case erector

O/K Intl.

December 31, 2003