Controls & Machine Components

Container and Pallet Services: Tracking software

Container and Pallet Services (San Francisco, CA) has introduced CAPS-TRAC(TM), a Web-based software system designed to track and manage shipping containers via the Internet.

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Soft touch foam

Alternatives to cross-linked foams, Synergy(TM) Soft Touch Foams from Dow Chemical (Midland, MI) are produced using Index(TM) interpolymers, a unique thermoplastic polymer family from Dow based on the copolymerization of ethylene and styrene.

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

AMBEC: Pressureless inliner

Because it uses multiple tabletop chains instead of pressure to move bottles into a single-file line, this new inliner from AMBEC (Owings Mills, MD) is suitable for indexing irregularly shaped or unstable containers with-out causing jams by distorting them or knocking them over.

July 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Filling PET aseptically at 200/min

With a prototype system in one plant and generation two in another, this Italian food company likes what it sees in rotary, aseptic filling of teas and sports drinks in PET.

July 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Del Monte adds food to aseptic PET beverage line

A blow/fill system originally installed for aseptic packaging of teas and juice-based beverages now is being used to bottle a specialty tomato sauce.

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

STA Packaging Tapes: Whiter sealing tape

STA Packaging Tape's (Garden Grove, CA) line of water-activated reinforced and paper gummed sealing tapes is now whiter and brighter. The whiter, STA-Force tapes are said to make white cartons look their best while retaining the benefits of strength, protection and security.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Associated Bag Co.: Product catalog

Thousands of popular and hard-to-find packaging products and shipping supplies can be found in the new 150-page catalog from Associated Bag (Milwaukee, WI).

June 30, 1999

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Cadillac Products Packaging Co.: Nylon gears

Nylatron® material from Cadillac Plastic (Troy, MI) is an alternative to metal gears. The nylon material works better than metal in some applications because of the reduced friction and inertia linked with the bending of thermoplastic gear teeth.

June 30, 1999

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Paxton Products: Centrifugal blower

Paxton's (Camarillo, CA) AT-1200 centrifugal blower is suitable for the beverage bottling, canning and packaging industries. Compact and efficient, the line of AT blowers provides more flow with lower speed, lower maintenance and energy savings.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Zero - Max: Zero - Max: Linear actuator

Roh'lix® linear actuators from Zero-Max (Minneapolis, MN) convert rotary motion into linear travel at speeds to 70"/sec, depending on lead size and shaft speed.

June 30, 1999

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Plast-O-Matic Valves: Metering pump

Plast-O-Matic Valves' (Cedar Grove, NJ) VPA air-operated metering pumps are designed to deliver exact quantities of liquids in automated or manual processes and filling systems.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Efector, Inc: Proximity switch

The IMC Cube from efector (Exton, PA) is a proximity switch that has a constant sensing range on all metals. The switch can sense steel, stainless steel, aluminum or copper at the same range, eliminating the need for correction factors.

June 30, 1999

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Paper properties

Paper Optics, a new handbook from AB Lorentzen & Wettre (Kista, Sweden), discusses the basic principles of optical properties of paper. Presents relevant formulas and tables and describes how optical properties of paper are affected by the manufacturing process.

June 30, 1999