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Oak Brook, IL-based U.S. Can Co. plans to open next year its first overseas manufacturing plant, a 330ꯠ sq' aerosol container making facility in Wales, UK.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pad printing system

Designed to print on unique non-flat surfaces, such as golf balls, medical devices and automotive parts, Imtran Industries (Newburyport, MA) has developed a new pad printing system with a three-dimensional programmable feature.

July 31, 1996

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Brushless servo

The DBSC 100 Series brushless servo control from Baldor Electric Co. (Ft. Smith, AR) is a digital control designed to operate AC servo motors. It can interface with signals from either stepper or servo motion controllers.

July 31, 1996

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Shrink packaging system

Heat Sealing Equipment Manufacturing's (Cleveland, OH) new heat seal machine incorporates an L-bar sealer and shrink tunnel into one machine, and takes half the floor space of comparable systems, says the company.

July 31, 1996

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Canmaking

CarnaudMetalbox (Belcamp, MD) has developed beverage cans with 202-dia ends, made of tinplate or aluminum. The smaller opening is said to improve filling operations by reducing spillage: cans are easier to drink from thanks to a wider pouring hole that's nearer the edge than traditional 206-dia ends.

July 31, 1996

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Carton feeding

The new 3622 Uni-Feeder from Multifold Intl. (Mulford, OH) feeds folding carton blanks to folder/gluer hoppers. Ratchet-style handles permit fast set-up without tools.

July 31, 1996

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Plastic caulking cartridge

Federal Packaging (Saint Paris, OH) has introduced a one-piece caulking cartridge made of injection-molded HDPE. Advantages include a beveled open end for easier filling, cleaner shelf appearance and improved graphic reproduction.

July 31, 1996

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Combination weigher

SASIB Packaging's (Skokie, IL) Weighstar(TM) combination net weigher offers up to 110 weighments/min. This computerized weigher includes a unique built-in infeed conveyor with adjustable height above the dispersion cone for gentle product distribution to feed trays.

July 31, 1996

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Applications news

Fleetwood Container, Vernon, CA, has added a six-color Cuir Rotaflexo® Mark II 2200 top printer equipped with an Inkontrol® automatic viscosity/pH controller, both from Automato/oon (Plover, WI) The Inkontrol system automatically monitors and controls viscosity and pH during print runs to provide consistent quality, and free up operators.

July 31, 1996

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Carton feeding

The new 3622 Uni-Feeder from Multifold Intl. (Milford, OH) feeds folding carton blanks to folder/gluer hoppers. Ratchet-style handles permit fast set-up without tools.

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Omron Electronics (Schaumburg, IL) has unveiled a new 8-page brochure: "Solutions for Food & Beverage Packaging, Food Processing and Flexible Packaging." It describes how individual components such as sensors, process controllers, PLCs, timers and counters, operator interfaces, RFID and machine vision systems can work together with existing automation to provide total automation solutions.

July 31, 1996

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Machine vision system

High-speed additions have been made to the Powervision® family of machine vision products from Acuity Imaging (Nashua, NH). Powervision 900 and 920 use a proprietary technology called Power Pipeline Board, which allows one image to be processed as another is being acquired.

July 31, 1996

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Water-based coatings

Reichhold Chemicals (Research Triangle Park, NC) has introduced a new line of water-based paper coatings that repel grease, oil, moisture and water vapor.

July 31, 1996