Controls & Machine Components

Tops Engineering Corporation: Palletization software

From Tops Engineering (Richardson, TX) comes a bro-chure on its Windows™-based packaging design and palletization software. Software determines the most efficient and economical way to size, shape and ship product.

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O. Berk Company: Brushed aluminum bottles

O. Berk (Union, NJ) has introduced a line of brushed aluminum bottles in 2-, 4-, 6-, 8- and 10-oz sizes. Each bottle has a 24-410 neck finish with a clear lacquer coating on the outside and an epoxy phenolic coating on the inside for product compatibility.

March 31, 2000

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LINPAC: Collapsible containers

Linpac’s (Georgetown, KY) 48”W Extended Length family of Ropak™ HDPE collapsible containers has been enhanced for increased weight capacity. The solid sidewall models are now rated for 1귔 lb.

March 31, 2000

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NorthStar Print Group: Promotional label

StarPeel™ from NorthStar Print Group (Milwaukee, WI) is a one-part peelable paper label for coupons, contests and games. NorthStar can also alter an existing label to create a StarPeel label.

March 31, 2000

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Permanent Label Corp.: Acid-etched bottles

Brand awareness and shelf presence are enhanced with Perma-Frost™ acid-etched glass bottles from Permanent Label (Clifton, NJ). Clear windows and other designs can be etched onto round, square or uniquely shaped bottles.

March 31, 2000

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Nadel Industries, Inc: PETG jars

Nadel Industries (Port Chester, NY) offers new styles and sizes for its line of heavy-wall jars made of Eastman’s (Kingsport, TN) Eastar™ PETG copolyester.

March 31, 2000

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Expac Corp.: Expac Corp.: Dispensing pump

Mega Pumps’ dispenser pump packages, available from Expac (Montvale, NJ), are injection-molded from polyolefin resins in 7 separate parts, with no metal components.

March 31, 2000

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MGS Machine Corp.: Outserter

The SideWinder™ from MGS (Maple Grove, MN) uses hot-melt glue to attach outserts to pharmaceutical containers at speeds to 200 bottles/min. No tools are needed to load outserts into the magazine.

March 31, 2000

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National Plastics, Inc: National Plastics, Inc: Plastics museum

The National Plastics Center and Museum (Leominster, MA) describes its numerous changes, upgrades and offerings in a new brochure. Brochure illustrates the newest attractions and programs, including a new interactive Discovery Corner, Plastics in Medicine exhibit and environmental gallery.

March 31, 2000

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Smurfit-Stone: Paper canister

Smurfit-Stone (Chicago, IL) has developed PaperCan™, which uses a paperboard body with an integrated easy-to-open-and-close paperboard lid. Made of laminated or barrier-coated paperboard that can be linear or blank-formed.

March 31, 2000

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Liberty Paper, Inc: Moisture barrier linerboard

M-Guard® Moisture Barrier from Liberty Paper (Becker, MN) is a repulpable linerboard that repels moisture yet looks, feels, corrugates and prints like regular linerboard.

March 31, 2000

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Packaging OMAC group rolls up sleeves

The OMAC Motion for Packaging Working Group met in Chicago in March to hammer out an official mission and articulate four key goals for the group. The OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) working group consists of end-users, packaging machinery builders and controls suppliers seeking to increase commonality and simplification among today’s complex motion controls in packaging machinery.

March 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Automation solutions

GE Fanuc (Charlottesville, VA) offers a 469-page catalog detailing its complete line of automation products and services, including Cimplicity software.

February 29, 2000