Flexible packaging

The machine factor in flexible packaging

What flexible package designers should know about packaging machinery.

February 28, 2005

Case/tray packing: Page 83

Cartoning

Cartesio cartoning concept debuts at Interpack

Cavanna integrates new robotic island into automated flow wrapping and cartoning line.

February 28, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Inkjet coders from PRISM ease PPG line maintenance

Case codes stay clear, crisp as personnel change print heads virtually “on the fly” with no tools

February 28, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Stainless-steel sealers

Constructed with stainless steel components, the new versions of the 3M-Matic™ 700a, 700rf, and 800af (shown) case sealers are highly resistant to corrosion in high-moisture mfg.

January 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Kerk Motion Products: Slide for linear applications

Kerk Motion Products introduces its RGS™ 10000 Slide. Designed for linear-motion applications, it’s especially suitable for applications in the packaging field, including plastic bottle unscramblers, shrink bundlers, stretch banders, tray shrink-packaging systems, wraparound case packers, secondary orienters, and canister desiccant feeders.

January 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

January 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

United Biscuits: Case packing on a cookie line

Robotic case packing on a Sigpack machine is gentle, fast, and flexible.

December 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

United Biscuits: Accumulation on a cookie packaging line

Show here are twin packs moving into and then out of the Sigpack accumulation system before moving on to case packing.

December 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

UF project meshes bar code and RFID technology

Research at the University of Florida on a productivity-tracking system for manual case packing is receiving an RFID-enabled boost using a multifunctional device.

December 31, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Random case sealer

PACK EXPO : 3M showed the high-speed 3M-Matic fully automatic random case sealer 2000rf at Pack Expo International. The fast and efficient 3M-Matic case sealer 2000rf will seal a range of case sizes at speeds to 20 cases/min.

October 31, 2004

Case/tray packing

PACK EXPO Video: ER60 high-speed case packing robot

PACK EXPO : Cermex is showing its ER60 high-speed case packing robot at its Pack Expo 2004 booth, S-2448. See video clip of this machine

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

New programming, controller restores efficiency

Fruit and vegetable canner finds that a proactive upgrade on its tray packer/shrink-wrapper system brings quick payback.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Students and industry learn at MSU

The School of Packaging at Michigan State gives its students a thorough overview of the packaging profession while also meeting CPG companies’ ongoing research needs.

October 31, 2004