Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

All-Fill Inc: Auger filler

The Millennium 400 system from All-Fill (Exton, PA) has a servo motor-controlled timing screw system that precisely positions each container through each stage of the filling sequence: tare measurement, filling, weighing, top-off, final weighing and exit.

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B.A.G. Corp.: Foil liner

B.A.G. Corp. (Dallas, TX) has introduced a foil "cube" liner that form-fits a container and fills without wrinkles. Said to be flexible, puncture- and tear-resistant, the liner is constructed of multilayer laminations of PET, aluminum and PE.

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Vibrating food conveyor

LeFloch's Titavib is a new type of vibrating food-handling conveyor available through the French Technology Press Office (Chicago, IL). Separate titanium trays move on top of flexible blades set in the composite base.

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Enercon Industries Corp.: UV/water-based inks

A seminar on UV-cured and water-based inks explores the advantages and disadvantages of the inks and determines their importance to various applications.

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Husky Injection Molding Systems: No-tool changeover on fillers

MRM Elgin (Menomonie, WI) now offers no-tool changeover capabilities on its Husky fill-to-level filler and rotary piston filler. Infeed timing spirals fit connectors at either end.

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Secondary Packaging

Chase-Logeman Corporation: Fill/stopper/tray load system

Chase-Logeman (Greensboro, NC) has introduced the Model FSTS2-12H automatic filling, stoppering and tray loading system. It uses a positive displacement servo-driven pump to fill glass or plastic bottles ranging from 2 mL to 100 mL at speeds to 120 bottles/min.

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Kollmorgen: Motion control chip

Kollmorgen Motion Technologies (Radford, VA) has introduced a new motion control chip designed to simplify the motion controller. The PCD-4500 combines control and translator functions into one 44 QFD package, and operates as a satellite microprocessor to simplify motion design.

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Conveying & accumulation

Flex America Inc: Flex America Inc: Vibratory conveyor

Meyer Machine's (San Antonio, TX) Magne-Flex L(TM) vibratory conveyor is suitable for the horizontal movement of raw and finished pharmaceutical materials.

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Case sealer

A spec sheet from S & R Industries (Olyphant, PA) describes the Model SR4000T automatic random p-s tape case sealer. Machine specifications such as power and air requirements, production rate, case dimensions and machine weight are listed, along with available options and features.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Graphic Packaging Intl.: Rotary inserter

Minnesota Automation (Crosby, MN) has developed a patented, six-arm Servo Synchronous Rotary (SSR) Inserter for random product-feed applications. This machine synchronizes placement with the product and matches the insert placing speed to the linear speed of the carton or web to minimize skewing.

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Filamatic, a division of National Instrument LLC: Rotary stoppering machine

A new rotary stoppering machine from National Instrument (Baltimore, MD) offers high-speed, continuous-motion stoppering with reliable placement. Designed for use in a Class 100 Clean Room, the Capamatic® DLS-12-T offers speeds to 300 containers/min, using 13- to 30-mm, full- or partial-depth stoppers.

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Thermal-transfer coder

Graseby Allen's (Elmhurst, IL) new TT53IM thermal coder is designed for use on intermittent labelers, form/fill/ seal systems, turn-key carton coders and other intermittent-motion coding applications.

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Magnetic twist conveyor

Magnetic twist conveyors provide absolute can control when laying down or uprighting filled or empty cans for coding, labeling or other downstream functions, says manufacturer Walker Magnetics (Worcester, MA).

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