Conveying & accumulation

Half-gallon aseptic carton is a first

Farmland Dairies is the first to pack a low-acid beverage in an aseptic carton this large. Shelf stability permits nontraditional placement in-store. Automatic in-line pour spout applicator is also the first of its kind.

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Bar code verification

A new line of automatic bar code verification systems from Thiele-Frontier Products (Minneapolis, MN) is designed to help customers meet FDA regulations governing on-line inspection of package components and label information.

September 30, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Robotic case packing sweetens Brach & Brock's bottom line

A top-load robotic pick-and-place machine replaces manual case packing of bagged candy at Brach & Brock Confections, saving the confectioner $150ꯠ in annual labor costs.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Can closing monitor

Food Instrument (Federalsburg, MD) has introduced a new top-and-bottom can closure monitor. The ADR-50DD detects and ejects defects in cans resulting from misapplied closures, unacceptable vacuum, pressure, fill level or temperature, body, seam and/or end imperfections.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Vacuum products

High-efficiency, multi-characteristic vacuum pumps and new suction cups from PIAB (Rockland, MA) were designed for a wide range of applications, including industrial, commercial, or scientific use in normal or sanitary environments.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Polyethylene film

Delta Plastics (Newark, NJ) is introducing the new DeltuffTM 9500 series of PE film. It employs a new generation of linear resins that increase film strength up to five times that of conventional LDPE.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Auger filler stats package

A new statistics package for auger fillers from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) is a real-time, on-screen method of monitoring filling operations.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Vision inspection

AGR (Butler, PA) will be demonstrating its newest machine for on-line inspection of plastic containers, as well as laboratory equipment for glass and plastic container inspection.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Dual-compartment container

AppTec's (Cranbury, NJ) dual-compartment container is designed for chemicals or pharmaceutical products that need to be mixed immediately before their time of use.

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Input/output module

Turck (Minneapolis, MN) has announced the busstop(TM) input/output module for DeviceNet(TM) networks. The module is designed to connect standard input/output devices to a "bus," which is the communications system linking electrical components in a packaging line.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Net weight scale system

The Flow-Logic(TM) net weight scale system from Upper Limits Eng. (Castro Valley, CA) can handle a variety of free-flowing products, including pellets, granulates, gummy items or fragile products.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Micro PLC

The DL105 micro is a low-cost micro PLC that offers features not found in other micro PLCs, says manufacturer PLCDirect (Cumming, GA). These include removable connectors, a built-in auxiliary power supply, as well as 10 AC or DC outputs and eight AC, DC or relay outputs for configuration flexibility.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

OEM print engine

Designed for integration with print/apply systems, the 170PAX(TM) Series print engine from Zebra Technologies (Vernon Hills, IL) offers larger ribbon capacity for increased productivity.

August 31, 1996