Controls & Machine Components

'No-glug' pouring

Twin City Bottle (Minneapolis, MN) introduces its patented Kleenpour "no glug" pouring system for 2.5-gal containers. The extrusion/blown HDPE system is said to eliminate the mess and costly spillage caused by glugging that occurs during pouring.

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Secondary Packaging

Magnetic palletizing heads

Walker Magnetics (Worcester, MA) offers a line of magnetic palletizing/depalletizing heads that operate with hydraulics or pneumatics without external moving parts.

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Controls & Machine Components

Guarding system

From Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) comes Micro-Screen, a compact, point-of-operation guarding system for smaller production machines. Using an optoelectronic emitter, receiver and controller, the system generates an infrared light screen between personnel and hazardous machine components.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hopper for fragile items

WeighPack Systems' (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) low-level feeder for fragile products uses a low-level design to minimize damage to products such as snack foods, crackers, cookies, certain cereals, electronic components, solid pet foods and candles.

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Controls & Machine Components

Clinton Packaging: Cosmetics rounds

Wide-mouth round containers for creams and a narrow-mouth square bottle in 50 mL for lotions are available from Clinton Packaging (St. Louis, MO). Made from frosted glass, containers come in 1/2-, 2- and 4-oz stock sizes.

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Controls & Machine Components

Gelatin capsule filler

TL Systems/Bosch Group (Minneapolis, MN) has introduced the GKF 2000 hard-gelatin capsule-filling machine. Its unique rounded-edge design and newly developed cleaning system are said to provide cleanup that exceeds cGMP standards.

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Controls & Machine Components

Plastic syringe processor

The Model SPLP plastic syringe processor from Adtech Filling and Packaging Systems (Hatboro, PA) accommodates syringe sizes from 1 to 20 cc, complete with barrel and plunger at speeds to 120 units/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Conveyor mount

TapTone (N. Falmouth, MA) has introduced a new single-lane conveyor-mounted bridge assembly for use with its defect detection systems. Provides precision height adjustment of the leak detection transducer with a fine adjustment crank assembly and digital height indicator.

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Controls & Machine Components

Carton printing

The Autoprint® system from AT Information Systems (Mahwah, NJ) offers a unique combination of ink-jet and thermal-transfer printing. It transports, prints, bar codes and counts cartons for a range of products at speeds to 100 cartons/min.

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Conveying & accumulation

L-sealer

The Model 360 automatic in-line shrink wrap L-sealer from Indaseal (Columbus, IN) is designed with simplicity and reliability in mind. PLC-driven machine has a continuous-infeed feature.

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Controls & Machine Components

Gantry robot

Stork BP&L's (Gainesville, GA) new gantry robot is a versatile system that combines depalletizing, palletizing and pallet handling, eliminating the need to buy separate destacking and transporting machinery.

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Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: All-in-one controller

The DIN-rail-mounted 2003 PCC programmable computer controller from B&R Industrial Automation (Roswell, GA) can act as a PLC, a high-speed remote I/O module for PLCs, or a CAN fieldbus I/O node for PCs.

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Controls & Machine Components

Total Control Products: Integrated controller

Total Control Products (Melrose Park, IL) has introduced a new category of factory floor controller with its new GLC100 Graphic Logic Controller. Incorporates graphic operator touchscreen, logic controller and I/O or I/O network connectivity all in one device.

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