Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Vertical form/fill/seal

Packaging Automation (Eagan, MN) has introduced the PAC 2020, an economic vertical form/fill/seal machine designed to accommodate a range of bag sizes and materials.

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Rotary filler control

MRM Elgin's (Menomonie, WI) rotary piston filler now offers touch screen electronic control for easy monitoring and adjustment of volume, speed and container heights.

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Indexing lipstick labeler

Model 9900 is a new indexing lipstick labeler from Labeling Systems (Oakland, NJ). It uses an intermittent-motion product handling system, along with a product positioning system at the point of labeling, to ensure accurate results.

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Controls & Machine Components

Loose-fill vacuum

The Flo-Vac Jr.(TM) from FP Intl. (Redwood City, CA) is a manually operated vacuum unit designed for the removal of loosefill during unpacking. By releasing the power button, loosefill can be dispensed into a storage bin.

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Flow wrapping

Flow wrappers

The Flowtronic 120SE from GEI Autowrappers (Wayne, PA) is capable of reaching speeds to 400 packs/min. Specifications for up to 20 different products can be retrieved with push-button control.

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Digital video camera

Olympus America (Melville, NY) released a brochure on its Encore(TM) high-speed digital video camera. The four-page color brochure covers some of the main functions of the Encore system-locating problems, evaluating new designs, increasing productivity and reducing maintenance costs.

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Controls & Machine Components

Capabilities brochure

"What Makes BASF Polystyrene BASF Polystyrene?" is a new 16-page color brochure from BASF (Mount Olive, NJ). The brochure demonstrates polystyrene's key capabilities and technologies, including product quality, technological innovation, customer partnerships, global reach and environmental concern.

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Secondary Packaging

Slip/tie sheet dispenser

The Columbia Machine (Vancouver, WA) Model 1098D dual hopper/sheet dispenser is designed to handle both slip and tie sheets simultaneously. It can be installed on existing palletizers and robots, or as a stand-alone unit.

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Environmental software

GreenPack is a new software program from Istituto Italiano Imballaggio (Milan, Italy) that rates environmental impact of all types of packaging. After providing specific information on the package to be rated, GreenPack furnishes an environmental profile composed of four figures: quantity of energy used, waste produced, air polluted and water polluted.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Print/apply labeler

Equipped with a heavy-duty motor, the V3 print/apply labeler from Hoppmann (Chantilly, VA) is an all-in-one system. It combines a microprocessor-controlled p-s labeling head with an in-line thermal printer.

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Custom labeling software

Kroy's (Scottsdale, AZ) new ID Krafter is a high-resolution printer and software combination used to create custom labels for packages. Designed with OSHA, ANSI and DOT compliance in mind, dozens of label templates are available, for hazardous waste and right-to-know labels, as well as DOT shipping labels.

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Labels

Vertical f/f/s system

A new vertical form/fill/seal system from All Packaging Machinery (Ronkonkoma, NY) reaches speeds to 60 packages/ min using low-cost, center-folded rollstock.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Quick-change feature

Chase-Logeman's (Greensboro, NC) ChaseLock(TM) instant-release, vial-and-stopper feeder bowl-and-track system is now available on the company's FS Series of filling and stopper insertion machines.

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