Controls & Machine Components

Vertical f/f/s

The VPP 450 vertical form/fill/seal Wolf Packaging Machine from Inland Trade (Miami, FL) is designed for large, heavy bags with a maximum 5.3-gal capacity.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Romaco, Inc: Vision system for blisters

The Visycam 1010 Intelligent Camera from Romaco (Morris Plains, NJ) detects for presence and product fragmentation by analyzing shape, area and perimeter in blisters.

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Controls & Machine Components

Feeder/counter

The P-120 high-speed feeder/ counter from Sure-Feed Systems (St. Petersburg, FL) feeds coupons, inserts, disks and other flat items at rates to 500'/min.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Servo control offers labeling latitude

To comply with FDA's labeling rules, Amway's Nutrilite Div. relies on a labeler with 12 independent servo-driven stations that permit fast changeover, high speed and improved copy-to-panel registration for square bottles of vitamins.

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Controls & Machine Components

Kaufman Container Company: PVC container

Kaufman Container (Cleveland, OH) has released a line of sloped PVC oval containers. The Sloped Ovals come in 125-, 200-, 250- and 400-mL sizes that have a large label panel area to increase the shelf appearance of cosmetics, personal care, household chemical, pharmaceutical and pet care products.

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Conveying & accumulation

Automated Production Systems, Corp.: Depalletizer/can handler

Automated Production Systems (New Freedom, PA) offers a depalletizer and can handling conveyor system. Soft start/stop of critical motors results in increased container stability and improved line efficiency.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Friction feeder

Multifeeder Technology's (Little Canada, MN) new high-speed friction feeder is said to use a revolutionary feeding mechanism that uses friction to separate and feed products with virtually no damage to the products.

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Controls & Machine Components

Shrink tubing

Templock (Oxnard, CA) Performance Formulas is a new line of shrink tubing for high-speed neck-banding systems operating at 300 bpm and higher. The PVC shrink tubing provides clear tamper-evident banding and is said to offer more uniform shrinkage.

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Controls & Machine Components

Dual-corner case labeler

Labeling Systems' (Oakland, NJ) new Model 9900 dual-corner wrap case labeler uses two separate labeling stations to allow air cylinder applicators to apply labels to the front/side and side/trailing panels.

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Controls & Machine Components

Automatic wrap labeler

Ohio Electronic Machinery's (Salem, OH) automatic wrap labeler is designed for small-diameter, cylindrical products. It wraps p-s labels around products ranging from 1/4" to 21/2" dia, at rates to 100 products/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Case-coding printhead extends over conveyor

Marsh's (Belleville, IL) new BC-256 high-resolution printhead uses a special print engine design to enable the unit to extend over a conveyor to print a UCC/EAN SCC-14 bar code, without modifying the conveyor.

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Controls & Machine Components

Oval deodorant container

An airtight oval deodorant container that allows fragrance-based formulas to have an increased shelf life is available from LIR-USA (Yaphank, NY). Airtightness is achieved with a valve seal, and a propel-repel mechanism and two-piece threaded cap further secure an airtight package.

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Controls & Machine Components

Rotary fill/plug/cap system

Cozzoli's (Plainfield, NJ) new REFPC rotary liquid filler fills, plugs and caps at speeds to 200 containers/min. Touchscreen automation allows a no-tool changeover within seconds, says the company.

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