Controls & Machine Components

Adidas runs with new printers

Unhappy with the speed of its previous shipping case printers, Portland, OR-based Adidas America replaced the equipment with 38 new 9840 printers from Monarch Marking Systems (Miamisburg, OH).

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Conveying & accumulation

Key International: Inspection roller/conveyor

A new tablet/capsule inspection roller conveyor machine from Key Intl. (Englishtown, NJ) identifies defective product within a 24" work area. The K-1000 Roller-TC Inspector is suitable for inspecting such items as nutritional products and small high-tech products.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Baldor Electric Company: Servo and positioning drives

Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) has released a new family of servo and positioning drives: FlexDrive, Flex+Drive and MINTDrive. When matched with Baldor's BSM servo motors, these drives can deliver torques to 366in.-lb and speeds to 7ꯠ rpm.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Insulating material

Dow Chemical (Midland, MI) offers 2 new brochures describing Instill(TM) vacuum insulation core for use in vacuum insulation panels. The first brochure highlights how Instill core can provide significant design flexibility, improved insulation performance and cost savings.

June 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Krones, Inc: Rotary sleeve labelers

Krones (Franklin, WI) has developed two new automatic rotary sleeve-labeling machines for speeds to 700 bottles/min. The Krones Stretchmatic handles stretchable sleeve films for the cylindrical or only slightly conical portions of the bottle.

June 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Shrink-wrapped protection for white goods

When a British manufacturer of freezers and refrigerators entered a more upscale segment of the market, shrink film was the packaging material of choice.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Eastman Chemical Company: Foam packaging

Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, TN) has introduced Eastalite(TM) foam technology for food packaging. When used with Eastapack CPET, the new technology results in food containers that can withstand temperatures from

June 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Intralox: Intralox: Motorized pulleys

Interroll Corp. (Wilmington, NC) offers the 400 and 500 series motorized pulleys to complement the Intralox series 800, 900 and 1100 segmented belts.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Aligning conveyor

Food products can be aligned into designated rows through the use of free-moving plastic wheels attached to the "Laner" by Span Tech (Glasgow, KY). This conveyor is best suited for products exiting spiral freezers or coolers, according to the manufacturer.

June 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

ABB Robotics: Depanning system

Designed specifically for bakeries, ABB's (New Berlin, WI) RollBot(TM) moves baked goods from pans to conveyors or trays at a rate of 30 pans/min using vacuum or needle lifting mechanisms.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

PET bottles

Matrix Packaging (Addison, IL) has introduced a new frosted finish for its line of injection/stretch blow-molded PET bottles. The finish is in-mold frosted and is more economical than the application of a secondary frosted finish.

June 30, 1999

Secondary Packaging

H.B. Fuller : Packaging adhesive

H.B. Fuller (St. Paul, MN) has introduced Advantra LT(TM) low-application-temperature packaging adhesives for case and carton sealing, tray forming and other packaging applications.

June 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Imtec, Inc: PVC tags

GraphiPlast(TM) from Imtec (Bellows Falls, VT) is a line of PVC tags that can be printed with all current imprinting technologies. Commonly used to identify steel and other metal components, the tags resist extreme weather conditions, chemicals and acid pickling.

June 30, 1999