Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Automatic Feeder Company: Feeder

The AFLXH linear feeder from Automatic Feeder (Schaumburg, IL) is customized with either tooling that accommodates a variety of cap and small part sizes or fixed tooling for standard-sized pieces.

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

Hayssen, Inc A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: Vertical form/fill/seal

The Servo II vf/f/s machine from Hayssen (Duncan, SC) uses servo motors that withstand washdowns. Operates at speeds to 110 bags/min. An Allen-Bradley 5/04 control system and PanelView 900 touchscreen operator interface allow storage of up to 100 user-defined programs.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Paperboard Packaging Council: Paperboard options

The Paperboard Packaging Council (Alexandria, VA) presents paperboard use options in its color tri-cut brochure, which contains four additional information sheets.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

European Packaging Machinery, Inc: Cap/container turner

To orient non-round bottles and caps, European Packaging Machinery (Tennent, NJ) has developed a cap and container turning system that detects a piece's position by locating a distinguishing characteristic such as a recess, label, thread, bar code, etc.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Kalish, a member of DT Industries Packaging Group: Leaflet placer

The Rotosert Leaflet Placer from Kalish Packaging Systems (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) can insert, outsert or topsert on the same machine at speeds to 120/min.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Programming software

VersaPro(TM) PLC programming software for Windows(TM)-based personal computers is available from GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA). Supports both Instruction List and Relay Ladder Diagram programming editors and provides switching capabilities between the two languages.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Sig Beverages/Simonazzi: Sig Beverages/Simonazzi: Bottle-transfer starwheel

Sasib Food & Beverage Machinery (Parma, Italy) has developed the Simonazzi Universal glass/PET bottle transfer starwheel system for quick changeover.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

REB, Inc: Filling system

The Model IVS-10 in-line piston filling system from REB (Menomonie, WI) fills less than 1 oz or as much as 1 L with accuracy within ±0.5% of the specified fill weight.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Sensormatic: Sensormatic: Sensormatic: Source tagging

Graphic Resources (Cedar Rapids, IA) offers source tagging for products and packages to manufacturers and retailers. The company has experience apply-ing various types of source tags, including Sensormatic and Checkpoint Systems.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: CD-ROM product guide

An interactive multimedia guide from Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL) combines all of the company's product, application and technical literature into a single, user-friendly CD-ROM.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

PSI: PSI: Vacuum pumps

Designed for use in high-flow applications that call for moderate vacuum levels, the low-pressure M Series of pneumatically driven pumps from PIAB (Rockland, MA) provide up to 27" Hg vacuum at an inlet pressure of 49 psi.

April 30, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Fire gives snack baker a clean slate

Fire claimed Pretzels, Inc.'s Indiana headquarters plant on Christmas Eve '97. By the following August, a new plant with a streamlined packaging room had risen from the ashes.

April 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Linerless labeler

Marprint's new labeler from Paragon(TM) (White Bear Lake, MN) prints and applies linerless labels to pallets, cases, cartons or products. Because the rollstock labels do not use a carrier web, there is no leftover material to discard, and rolls contain up to 40% more labels.

April 30, 1999