Controls & Machine Components

Box loading/unloading

Horix Manufacturing (McKees Rocks, PA) offers box loading and unloading equipment for medium or high production packaging applications. A pneumatically operated gripper/transfer head can handle a range of carton sizes.

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Black concentrate

For use in polyolefin concentrates, Ampacet (Tarrytown, NY) has introduced a black concentrate for food and water contact. Product 190405 Black conforms to FDA regulations when used at a recommended starting level of 2% and up to 12.5% for food contact applications.

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Controls & Machine Components

Salad dressing bottles

These 8-oz and 16-oz stock salad dressing bottles are available from Pocono P.E.T. (Hazleton, PA). The 8-oz bottle is finished with a 33/400 neck, while the 16-oz bottle has a 38/400 neck.

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Controls & Machine Components

Print/apply system

Suitable for distribution centers, the Datapply® TampKnife print/ apply system from Avery Dennison (Philadelphia, PA) allows high-speed, accurate label printing and application on cases of varying size and weight.

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Controls & Machine Components

Net weigher

Sasib Packaging North America's (Skokie, IL) new Parsons 6-Unit ELM-HV net weigher is designed to handle dry, free-flowing products at speeds to 65 weighments/min, depending on weighment size.

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Controls & Machine Components

PP foam sheet

A thinner gauge of Astro-Valcour's (Glens Falls, NY) Microfoam® is now available. Micropack(TM) low-density PP closed-cell foam sheeting is designed for shipping and handling protection of products having fine finishes, such as metal, finished wood, plastic or glass.

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Controls & Machine Components

Motion controllers

Ormec's (Rochester, NY) new Orion(TM) motion controller family includes the 586/133MHz processor. This processor offers a 25% speed increase and enables Ormec customers to upgrade to a more industrial PC-based platform.

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Productivity trends

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute has released the 1997 Packaging Productivity Trends Indicator. The 200-page report features analyses, graphs, charts and detailed findings.

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Controls & Machine Components

Labeling system

Quadrel Labeling's (Mentor, OH) ModuLine labeling system has been redesigned with heavier duty components, an 8" conveyor and no-tool changeover capabilities.

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Flexible packaging

High-speed pouching machine

The PK3000 is a new horizontal form/fill/seal continuous-web pouch machine from R.A. Jones (Cincinnati, OH). The system is 40% smaller than Jones' PK4000.

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Controls & Machine Components

Labels catalog

The 1997 Labels Catalog, a 62-page full-line catalog, is being offered by Lancer Label (Omaha, NE). It features the company's standard offering of labels and label applications as well as new stocks for labels on rolls and laser/ ink-jet labels, NameDropper(TM) designs, phone and address shapes to help promote Internet addresses, and low quantity, digitally printed durable decals.

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Controls & Machine Components

Software-based motion control

Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) has released what it says is the first motion-control solution based entirely on software and PC hardware, operating systems and network cards.

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Controls & Machine Components

Clear vials

Kerr (Lancaster, PA) has introduced ScriptVision(TM) PP amber vials for prescription tablets. In sizes from 6 to 60 drams, they offer up to 30% greater transmission of light visible to the naked eye than comparable vials, says Kerr.

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