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Controls & Machine Components

Moen Industries: Bliss tray former

The PF129-TFB T-Fort Bliss Former evolved from the technology of Moen’s “H” and “E” Fort Bliss Designs. This family of machines and display trays provide good top-to-bottom compression strength along with the displayability required by club and warehouse stores.

September 30, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

What is missing in packaging education

Learning how packaging is produced—the machinery side of the equation—is painfully lacking in packaging education.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Benefits statement from Make2Pack

Make2Pack--a joint working group of the World Batch Forum, the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, and the ISA SP88 committee--recently composed a “Statement-of-Standards-Benefits” document that is intended to clarify the key benefits to be gained in the manufacturing space should certain standards be accepted and applied across both processing and packaging applications.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

OMAC seeks more OEM involvement

“We need to more effectively communicate the value of servo technology and standards-based initiatives to the packaging machinery OEMs.”

September 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Economical $1000 RFID readers

Two Applied Wireless Identifications (AWID) products are now about one-third the cost of their competition: the MPR-3014 Gen 2 RFID reader and MPR-1510 reader module.

September 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Top 10 smart label tips

The following tips are offered to help companies optimize the printing and encoding of RFID "smart" labels.

September 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Food biz summit focus on RFID

In early October, some of the world's largest food businesses openly discussed their RFID programs including Kraft, Wegmans, and Marks & Spencer.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

What new skills do technicians need to maintain today's packaging machines?

Minnesota Chapter IoPP event draws expert participants from General Mills, Douglas Machine, ELAU, Packaging World and Alexandria Technical College.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Douglas Machine Inc: Shrink packer

New from Douglas Machine is the Contour SPS-30 shrink packer, said to cost-effectively maximize efficiency with new, patent-pending technologies for tray, pad, u-board, and film-only applications.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Formost Fuji Corporation: Horizontal servo wrapper

Formost Packaging Machines’ Fuji-Formost FW-3400 Alpha VI horizontal servo wrapper has four individual servo motors that drive the film feed, cantilevered cold and heated center fin sealers and end sealer to provide a system that allows for accurate and repeatable packages, and it requires minimal maintenance, company says.

September 30, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

PIAB USA Inc: Vacuum pump

Piab offers its new P6010 vacuum pump, based upon the company’s patented COAX® multi-stage ejector technology and providing as much as 40% more flow than conventional vacuum pumps.

September 30, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Sigpack Systems Div., a Bosch Packaging Technology Co.: Tray loader

The WTI tray loader from Sigpack Systems is small in design, saving customers more than 60% in operational space, while remaining economical and productive.

September 30, 2005