Controls & Machine Components

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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Cap holding system

CapWell Systems (Santa Rosa, CA) has introduced a cap holding system that allows caps to be temporarily stored on the container while the container is open.

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Accumulation tables

Easy Flow(TM) pressureless accumulation tables from Automated Production Systems (New Freedom, PA) provide accumulation for light and unstable containers, and are designed to fit most existing production lines.

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Thermoplastic assembly

A new brochure from Ultra Sonic Seal (Aston, PA) describes the company's range of thermoplastic assembly equipment, systems and technical support services.

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Clarified PP

Richards Packaging (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) now manufactures stock and custom extrusion-molded containers from a clarified grade of PP. Suited for hot fill applications, this new grade eliminates the cloudy appearance associated with products hot filled into PP containers.

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Foam pump dispenser

Designed for hair mousse or foams, the Airspray finger pump foamer from Airspray Intl. (Pompano Beach, FL) does not use a gas propellant to create foam.

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Vegetable oil bottles

Clinton Packaging (St. Louis, MO) offers stock glass bottles suit-able for vegetable oils such as olive oil. These rounded square bottles are available in 250-, 500-, 750- and 1000-ml sizes.

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Tape applicator

SoftPack (Commack, NY) has developed a patented L-Clip applicator, which applies L-shaped pieces of pre-printed PP p-s tape to the front and bottom of chipboard or paperboard cartons.

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PVC neck bands

Made in the USA, Seal-It's (Hicksville, NY) heat-shrink TE neck bands are a low-cost way to provide tamper-evidence. Made of PVC, these neck bands can be made of any size and can be printed with custom designs or logos.

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Pivot guide

Exhibiting with Tidland (Camas, WA), Fife (Oklahoma City, OK) will show the new microSymat Offset Pivot Guide (OPG) for high-performance web guiding on narrow-web process machinery.

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P-s stock for Indigo

MACtac (Stow, OH) has developed a special top coating for p-s stocks used with Indigo's Omnius® Digital Offset Color(TM) presses. IMAGin(TM) gloss roll label stock is a bright gloss white paper stock engineered for optimum printing and designed for high-end consumer products.

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Liquid nitrogen injector

MG Industries (Malvern, PA) has developed a Liquid Nitrogen Injector® for the noncarbonated beverage industry. It offers low-cost pressurization to cans and bottles without tainting beverage taste or character, says the company.

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Plastics report

Rapra Technology (Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England) has developed a comprehensive report covering key properties of polymers used in packaging materials.

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