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Dairy Product Filler

Sympak Group offers the new Corazza WFT continuous-motion weight filler for spreadable and drinkable dairy products. Automatic Taring System ensures that each container is tared and recorded as it enters the filling carousel and filled to an exact net weight, regardless of container variations.

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Flexible packaging

Filling/Capping Beverage Pouch System

PPi Technologies Global offers its PSG YUE UltraClean filling and capping beverage pouch system. Machine evacuates the pouch using nitrogen, fills the pouch, washes the spout thread, places the spout cap, and tightens the cap to the desired torque.

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Beckhoff Automation: Stepper Motors

The new AS1xxx stepper motors from Beckhoff Automation provide a cost-effective alternative to servo motors in the small- and medium-capacity ranges.

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Heidenhain Corporation: Heidenhain Corporation: Analog To Digital Interface

Heidenhain has introduced the EIB 192 External Interface Box, which changes its signal from analog to digital by changing 1Vpp encoder signals to an EnDat 2.2 bidirectional digital interface.

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Copley Controls Corp.: Servo Amplifier

Copley Controls has introduced Model 800-1514 dual-axis servo amplifier for current (torque) control of brushless servo motors in packaging automation.

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Conveying & accumulation

Robots a perfect fit for packaged solution

Robots handle primary and secondary packaging on a customized turnkey line that collates, cases, labels, and palletizes industrial filters.

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Integration of next-generation packaging systems simplified with devicenet

DeviceNet replaces traditional I/O hardwiring and signaling for simpler, faster, and more reliable system integration.

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Filling/capping, dry

Vision System Speeds Container Development

London, England-based alcoholic beverage producer Diageo has launched its new leche-flavored liqueur line “Dulseda” in what the company claims is “the fastest time to market ever.”Key to the accelerated glass bottle design development and testing was Diageo’s use of the Vision Bottle Gauge (VBG) automated testing station supplied by Agr International (www.agrintl.com).

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Closures

Data acquisition bottles

You may be surprised at what's packed inside these containers.

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James Alexander Corp.: James Alexander Corp.: Compact plastic ampules

A compact version of James Alexander Corp.’s 5-mL plastic ampule swab package is for applications where fill volumes range between 2 and 5 mils. Available with various applicator tips, including the company’s recently introduced line of large surface area tips.

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Watlow: Interactive product catalog

Watlow has introduced its [i]i-Catalog, an interactive, searchable online heater product catalog. Users can search for products using code numbers or partial code numbers, and can select predetermined criteria to build a heater based on Watlow's stock list.

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Wago Corporation: Extended-temp I/O

Wago now offers its 750 Series Wago-I/O System in extended temperature ranges of -20[deg]C to +60[deg]C (-4[deg]F to +140[deg]F). Conformal coating of the PCBs contributes to the extended temperature I/O offering, which has a growing list of more than 20 different part numbers.

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