Secondary Packaging

Touchscreen facilitates custom wrapping

Stretch wrapper’s touchscreen controls store five pre-programmed wrap patterns that can be switched on the fly, accommodating custom wrap patterns.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Sidel Inc: Gravity Weight Filler

The Sidel GWm low-to-high speed gravity weight filler has now extended its range to cover pasteurized milk products. Platform accommodates all varieties of plastic bottles at output rates from 6ꯠ to 40ꯠ bph.

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Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Compact coupler

The new, compact BK7150 Bus Couplers from Beckhoff Automation are said to cost-effectively connect the CC-Link network to the entire Beckhoff I/O system.

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Controls & Machine Components

Watlow: Integrated control loop

Watlow has introduced EZ-ZONE™ ST integrated control loop, which integrates temperature control, power control, safety shut-down, and power disconnect in a single package.

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Controls & Machine Components

Baumer Electric: Cam encoder

Baumer Electric has introduced the MagRes Absolute Singleturn CAM Encoder, a general-purpose, rotarymotion encoder that acts as a programmable limit switch, replacing PLC or PC controllers in low-level operations.

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Cartoning

Machinery's growing role in package innovation

At PMMI Partners in Packaging event, packaging machinery automation supplier ELAU presents examples of innovative packages and the machines that made them commercially viable.

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Controls & machine components

Packaging looks good in machine vision study

Packaging applications saw machine vision sales of nearly $100 million last year, according to AIA's newly released study.

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Controls & Machine Components

Zero - Max: Zero - Max: Linear actuators

Roh'lix[r] linear actuators from Zero-Max convert rotary motion to linear travel and carry loads at speeds to 70"/sec, depending on size. A less costly alternative to ball screws, actuators are suitable for positioning operations in all types of machinery.

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Controls & Machine Components

Advantech Automation Corp.: Analog input module

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech has introduced ADAM-4117, a data aquisition module designed for reliable operation in harsh environments.

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Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: Hand-held panel

In its standard version, the new Hand-held panel from B&R offers a CAN terminal with alphanumeric 4x20 LC display and 24 keys (12 numerical and 12 functions).

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Controls & Machine Components

Ball Corp.: Ball Corp.: Non-ball screws

Kerk Motion Products offers its VHD series, designed to eliminate drag and wear associated with high pre-load forces. The anti-backlash assembly provides maximum load-carrying capability and the highest axial and radial stiffness of any Kerk nut assembly.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Turnkey RFID station

A wireless, mobile RFID solution is designed for packagers to meet mandates.

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Conveying & accumulation

Wearable RFID encoding

Development of a portable wireless system for commissioning RFID tags was prompted by a CPG company that wants to supplement Wal-Mart's mandate.

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