Controls & Machine Components

Form/fill/seal system

The Boxibag form/fill/seal system from Inland Trade (Miami, FL) produces square or rectangular type packages with four distinct gussets that increase stability.

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Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor catalog

The 3100 Series Conveyor catalog has been updated by Dorner Manufacturing (Hartland, WI) to reflect new conveyor features, including parallel shaft and heavy-duty gear motors, metric fasteners, sidewall cleated belts and additional conveyor accessories.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bag former

The Black Box from UVA-Butler (Richmond, VA) is a flat-bottom bag air expelling and bag shaping unit for flat-bottom bags. It creates brick-type bags by eliminating air in gabletop bags and folding and taping the top fin for a brick-type appearance.

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Controls & Machine Components

Compression testing

Existing package compression testing systems can be upgraded with the Valuepak custom retrofit package from Gaynes Eng. (Franklin Park, IL). A combination of control and data acquisition options is available.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ink brochure

The Marsh Co.'s (Belleville, IL) newest 4-color brochure highlights inks for use with ink-jet systems. Information on porous, non-porous and specialty inks is included, as well as a description of the exclusive Marsh Waste-Free Ink system that eliminates container disposal concerns.

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Controls & Machine Components

PET bottles

Knap-Pac (Ft. Lee, NJ) and Robb Container (Naperville, IL) have introduced a line of PET bottles suited for the cosmetics and personal care markets.

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Controls & Machine Components

Watermarked pharmaceutical inserts

In an effort to combat pharmaceutical counterfeiting, Fletcher Paper (Kalamazoo, MI) has developed pharmaceutical inserts made with watermarked paper.

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Controls & Machine Components

Multi-line palletizing system

Priority One Packaging (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has developed multi-line palletizing systems that allow concurrent palletizing of multiple products on a single Pro-Pal(TM) Series 3500 palletizer.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New bottle packers help Modelo deal with refillables

Southern Mexican brewery installs high-speed rotary bottle packers that are now used throughout Modelo's system. Efficency soars even with returnable cases of marginal quality.

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

Duralam presses for short and sweet runs

Flexible packaging converter Duralam is among the first to use a quick changeover flexo press for short-run jobs. One of its most challenging is a reverse-printed OPP structure used for bags of Sun*Maid candy.

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

Vertical form/fill/seal

A new series of vertical form/ fill/seal machines from Packaging Aids (San Rafael, CA) bags food and non-food products into overlap-, gusset-, fin- and flat bottom-style bags at speeds to 120 bags/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Can closer

Angelus Sanitary Can Machine (Los Angeles, CA) has introduced a new version of its Model 60L can closer. New Model 60L incorporates the single cover feed separator assembly, a new electrical system and stainless steel epoxy paint on nonstainless steel parts as standard features.

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Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: International agreements

Motoman (West Carrollton, OH) and its parent company Yaskawa Electric America (Northbrook, IL) have teamed to establish Yaskawa Motoman Canada Ltd.

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