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Online inventory checks seem "berry" good

Gourmet food manufacturer Rothschild Berry Farms, Urbana, OH, started ordering glass containers and gold colored metal closures for its line of salsa, mustards, and dips in mid-January via TricorBraun’s preferred customer site at www.tricorbraun.com.

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Conveying & accumulation

Downtime shrinks with new wrappers

When Georgia-Pacific needed to speed up wrapping rates for its 9” Dixie paper plates, management picked servo-driven, side-seal shrink wrappers that maintain high speed and tight registration.

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Flexible packaging

Climbing the ladder of f/f/s technology

Beginning a decade ago, Calhoun Bend Mill started with simple packaging equipment, went through a rebuild upgrade and now has two new vf/f/s machines for bags of its food mixes.

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Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: Motor line

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has published a brochure describing the Reliance Electric Sabre motor line. The 4-page, 4-color brochure shows photographs and diagrams of notable motor features.

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Checkpoint Systems: Read/write system

Checkpoint Systems (Thorofare, NJ) has added a new series of read/write products to its Performa® Radio Frequency Identification family.

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Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers: Technical bulletin

Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers (Crofton, MD) has published a technical bulletin, “Properties, Performance and Design Fundamentals of Expanded Polystyrene Packaging.” The 4-page brochure covers PS packaging products, giving general information on the physical and mechanical properties.

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idmarket.com: Online exchange

idmarket.com (Kansas City, MO) has released 2.1 of its online exchange, focusing on enhancing communication between buyers and sellers in the packaging and product identification industries.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Teklynx Intl: Labeling/integration software

Teklynx (Milwaukee, WI) has released Codesoft 6, bar-code labeling and integration software with RFID programming capability. Software includes features such as ActiveX link for users to create labels and a new graphic interface for smart label programming.

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Cincinnati Industrial Automation Ltd: Machine vision literature

Cincinnati Industrial Automation (Covington, KY) has published a full-color brochure describing its new EZVision Sensor compact PLC-based machine vision system.

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Pacific Scientific: Brushless servo motors

Three brushless servo motors in Pacific Scientific’s (Rockford, IL) PMA1 series offer a standard frame length of 125 mm to 175 mm or 150 mm to 200 mm with integral brake.

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Hot melt units

Thermojet II hot melt units from Valco Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) offer 3.5- to 180-kg tanks and 16 independently controlled heating zones. Set-up and adjustments are made via touch pad, and the units feature self-tuning microprocessor PID controllers and motor-driven gear pumps.

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Machine vision system

The Inspector, IC Vision’s (Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) new “self-learning” machine vision system, is designed for cap- or container-making companies.

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