Controls & Machine Components

Stockhausen, Inc: Absorbent polymer

Favor-Pac 100 is an absorbent polymer that can be added to soaker pads to absorb fluids in refrigerated or frozen poultry packaging. The FDA has approved the polymer, made by Stockhausen (Greensboro, NC), for indirect food contact.

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Bell-Mark Corp.: Bell-Mark Corp.: Bell-Mark Corp.: Bag coder

Bell-Mark's (Pine Brook, NJ) US-6252 Cryovac Bag Coder is designed to integrate with any Cryovac horizontal or vertical bag loading machine that runs bags 4"W or wider.

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API : Hot-stamping foils

API Foils (Lawrence, KS) has introduced DMN and KK3 hot-stamping foils as alternatives to bronze ink. The DMN Dusted Foil series adheres to most substrates, provides heavy coverage, has a medium release and is available in gold and silver.

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Machine builders debate PC vs PLC control

Part two of our report on PC vs PLC control for packaging machinery, from the perspective of design engineers at leading packaging machinery builders.

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End-users seek motion standards

Part two of our report covering a ground-breaking meeting last October where engineers from Anheuser-Busch, General Mills, Hershey Foods, Nabisco and Procter & Gamble spoke out about their packaging controls needs.

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Sustainability

Dow Corning sings praises of palletizer/stretch wrapper combo

Combo systems at the end of three silicone sealant cartridge packaging lines save space, money and materials at the company's Elizabethtown, KY, facility.

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Desperately seeking standards

Head engineers from Anheuser-Busch, General Mills, Hershey Foods, Nabiscoand Procter & Gamble begin a dialogue with machinery and controls suppliers on motion control standards for packaging. Part one.

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Ordering spare parts via the Web (sidebar)

Capsule reviews

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Broad attendance at motion control meeting (sidebar)

Desparately seeking standards

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Rollprint Packaging Products, Inc: Peelable sealants

Allegro(TM) sealant formulations are multilayer coextrusions from Rollprint (Addison, IL). The sealants can be applied to a variety of base materials and are available in clear, blue and custom colors.

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EZ-Tek Industries Inc: Strapper

A longtime supplier of taping machinery, EZ-Tek (Deer Park, NY) now offers the EZ-Strapper. The semi-automatic Model EZS-200 has a heating mechanism that requires only about 15 sec to warm up and a motor that automatically shuts off between cycles.

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Eriez Magnetics: Equipment handling

A 6-page color brochure from Eriez Magnetics (Erie, PA) showcases the company's comprehensive line of equipment for handling materials and protecting product purity throughout the packaging industry.

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All Packaging Machinery: All Packaging Machinery: Packaging system

All Packaging Machinery (Ronkonkoma, NY) is introducing an automatic bag opening, filling, sealing and shrink packaging system for printed or plain wicketed shrink bags and plain PE bags.

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