Controls & Machine Components

Materials handling resources

Fru-Con (St. Louis, MO) has issued a new publication with information on the company's packaging and materials handling resources in its engineering, construction, and technical services groups.

July 31, 1996

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Controls & Machine Components

Medical pouch sealers

Sencorp Systems' (Hyannis, MA) new line of hot-bar laboratory sealers were designed specifically to address concerns with medical packaging. Both Series 12-AS/2 and AS/3 are designed with external calibration ports to facilitate calibration of temperature, pressure and dwell time while the machine is in production.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Printing

Ruco 960 UV relief lacquer screen printing ink system prints relief images onto containers and labels. Imported through Comdec (Newburyport, MA), the system can be used for 3-D images, as well as the printing of text in the Braille language for pharmaceutical containers.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Recirculating accumulator

Simtrack Systems (Elk Grove Village, IL) has developed a recirculating can and bottle accumulator designed to absorb surges on production lines during temporary upstream interruptions.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Soft shoulder rounds

Richards Packaging (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) has introduced the Soft Shoulder Round, a modification of the Boston Round and the Bullet-shaped Round.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Container pressure tester

AGR Intl. (Butler, PA) has introduced the Plastic Pressure Tester (PPT), a microprocessor-based pressure-driven tester for a variety of plastic containers, including bottles up to 3 L.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Laser marking system

Lumonics' (Oxnard, CA) latest generation of the Xymark(TM) Series of low-cost laser marking systems can code up to four lines of text on moving products.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bottle promotions

Do-It Corp. (South Haven, MI) has released a new brochure titled "Secrets to Successful Bottle Promotions." The 12-page, color brochure highlights various aspects of merchandising, promotions, and sales.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Desktop color software

Pantone, Inc. (Carlstadt, NJ) announces a new version of PANTONE ColorDrive, the first application-independent desktop color palette management software.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Heat-activated color labels

Thermacolor(TM) is a heat-activated, color-coded thermal label from Standard Register (Dayton, OH). This patented label system generates up to five latent colors on one label, activated by a conventional thermal printer.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Glass packaging periodical

The Glass Packaging Institute (Washington, DC) has released Packaging & Marketing 2000 (P&M 2000), a 4-color periodical that offers food and beverage marketers and packagers facts and information while highlighting glass packaging innovations.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Pneumatic clamp and eject system

For use in ultrasonic plastic welding, a new pneumatic clamp and eject system from Branson Ultrasonics (Danbury, CT) is custom-designed to fit specific parts.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Inverter-fed motors

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AK) introduces a new 14-page technical handbook on the fundamentals of inverter-fed motors. Topics include how inverters affect motors, typical types of motor problems caused by inverters, suggested solutions to these and other problems, application engineering, motor selection and how to properly adjust inverter operating limits.

June 30, 1996