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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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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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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Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

BWI Inex (Clearwater, FL) will supply machine vision systems from Systech (Cranbury, NJ) to the pharmaceutical and consumer products industry in a strategic alliance between the two companies.

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Controls & Machine Components

Corner wrap system

Superior Machine Systems (Mason, OH) introduces its Genesis Corner Wrap system Series 9000 in its new full-color brochure. The system provides an effective way to automatically label two adjacent panels of boxes.

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Controls & Machine Components

Reusable temperature logger

The HOBO® Temp data logger is a cost-effective and reusable way to record temperatures of shipments of food or electronics products. The small, 1-oz device is packed into a case with product.

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Membrane sealer

The metFoil® Sealer from Frei (Wittenbach, Switzerland) is an aluminum membrane sealing machine for welded cans with curled flanges. Foil rollstock is first uncoiled and a tear tab affixed.

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Pallet storage

Sanpak Lagertechnik (Glinde, Germany) offers the Paletti Garage for empty pallets. ISO-approved, it holds up to 30 pallets. Integral hydraulics allow a pallet stack to be raised by a single operator with simple lever operation, so that a pallet can be inserted at the bottom of a stack.

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