Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Bass wraps up market flexibility

A highly flexible multipacker wraps 4-, 6- and 10-count bottles in paperboard to help Bass meet demands of disparate retail markets at home and abroad. Automatic servo-driven dimensional changeover takes 15 seconds.

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Secondary Packaging

Pairing pack styles with markets

With Bass's vast reach to more than 70 different export markets, what determines which pack style is used for a given market?

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Conveying & accumulation

Robotics automate portion packing

Robotic packing cell case-packs delicate portion cups at speeds of 500 cups/min. Integrated system incorporates a stand-alone case erector and automatic tier sheet placer.

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Conveying & accumulation

Skin packs serve up Swift's pork chops

A multilayer film coextrusion combined with vacuum skin packaging machines help Swift gain a stronger presence in supermarkets with newer varieties of marinated pork chops.

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Controls & machine components

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Key Technology (Walla Walla, WA) acquired a machine vision pharmaceutical inspection product line from Oncoor, Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD).

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Controls & Machine Components

Materials

International Paper's Thilmany Div. (Kaukauna, WI) introduces a superclean pulp with 50% moisture content and up to 80% less sand than standard versions.

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Controls & Machine Components

Coated paper

Sterling® Ultra Brite(TM) C1S is a new coated-one-side paper from Westvaco (New York, NY) that offers a GE brightness level of 90. Available in 60#, 70#, 80# and 100# weights.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hi-res printers

The Overture series of high-resolution printers from Marsh (Belleville, IL) use a carton template as a backdrop for simplified message creating. Users define the actual carton size, then insert various coding elements at desired locations.

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Controls & Machine Components

High-barrier composite can

The NP Container is a high-barrier composite container from Showa Denko Plastic Products (Tokyo, Japan). An aluminum foil layer and high-frequency welding of ring pull lid to container provides a reliable hermetic seal, comparable to that of metal cans, says the company.

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Printing

Windmoeller & Hoelscher's (Lincoln, RI) Heliostar® 2000 modular gravure press can be equipped with up to 10 stations that permit application of coating, and in-registration cold-seal on the reverse side of the web.

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Applications news

In Niles, IL, the Johns Byrne Co. added a Komori America (Rolling Meadows, IL) six-color New Lithrone 40" sheet-fed press with an in-line coater.

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Printing

An automatic winding system collects the waste matrix generated by a press or die cutter. Available from Compensating Tension Controls (West Caldwell, NJ), the system works on all substrates and is adaptable to any press or die cutter.

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Printing

An infrared/air dryer from France Rayonnement Technologies (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) improves adhesion of water-based inks and varnishes without overheating in flexographic or offset printing applications.

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