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Controls & Machine Components

Roll-wrap machine

GEI Autowrappers' (Exton, PA) S2000 Series of roll-wrap machines can wrap round, compressed tablets and lozenges for the pharmaceutical market at speeds to 150 packs/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Strapping tool

The Pneumon pneumatic tensioner from Greiner (Esslingen, Germany) permits steel-strap tensioning without applying force, even if high strap tensions are required.

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Conveying & accumulation

Conveyors bridge the gap for Hiram Walker

Conveyors carry cases of glass-bottled spirits over a bridge for palletization and stretch wrapping. That saves this Canadian distiller more than $500ꯠ per year.

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Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: Electronics brochure

An eight-page brochure from Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL) presents the company's line of programmable limit switches, resolvers, and the NEMA 12 and 4X Absolute Gray Encoders.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Federal 'medicine' for drug errors may be hard to swallow

Agencies are now considering requirements for unit-dose packaging and bar coding of containers to reduce the potential for medication errors.

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Supplier news: Achievements

Westvaco's (New York, NY) Dr. Richard E. Nordgren won the George Olmsted Award from the American Forest and Paper Assn. for developing an improved register controller for high-speed converting equipment.

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Conveying & accumulation

Keebler becomes a canister convert

When consumers showed how much they liked resealable composite canisters for Animal Crackers, Keebler responded by launching other products in that package format.

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Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Total Control Products (Melrose Park, IL) has agreed to acquire Computer Dynamics (Greenville, SC), a maker of industrial computers and flat-panel monitors.

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Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) has acquired Northern Magnetics (Santa Clarita, CA), a mfr. of linear motors.

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Controls & Machine Components

Popcorn bag

The Pop-Crock(TM) side-opening bag from Paper Cup & Container Design (Hartland, WI) provides grease-free access to microwavable popcorn. The opening is enlarged by the positioning of a burstable seam along the inside fold of a gusseted side of the bag.

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Controls & Machine Components

Video on load security

Unit Loading Concepts (Mukilteo, WA) has produced a video that shows how to prevent shipping damage. It illustrates how shippers can triple their normal unit load strength to reduce or eliminate damage.

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Crates and boxes

H. Arnold Wood Turning (Mamaroneck, NY) targets the gourmet food and gift industries with its new line of wood boxes and mini crates for packaging. They can be custom made to almost any size.

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