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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

Controls & Machine Components

Lugless closer

Adco's (Sanger, CA) C90 lugless closer seals double- or single-sided heat seal-coated cartons at speeds to 250 cartons/min. It can handle cartons in sizes from 4" x 31/8" x 7/8" to 12" x 8" x 31/4".

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Cap lining service

Danbury Plastics (Danbury, CT) will die-cut and apply cap liners into caps made by Danbury or other manufacturers. Liners can be made of a variety of materials, in diameters ranging from 8 to 75 mm.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Pad printing ink

Marabu Tampastar TPR from Autoroll Machine (Middleton, MA) is a high-gloss, quick-drying one-part pad printing ink that is particularly resistant to chemicals and solvents.

June 30, 1996

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bar code label printer

Tharo Systems (Brunswick, OH) has introduced the Orion point-of-use thermal-transfer bar code label printer. Well-suited for applications where space is limited, it has a footprint measuring 8" x 10.1".

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Case packer

Developed in response to demand for faster automatic case packing, the Direct Loader from SWF Dyna-Pak (Sanger, CA) packs flexible bags, trays and cartons into cases, with or without built-in dividers, at speeds to 200 bags/min.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

High-gloss HDPE

Richards Packaging (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) now supplies most of its stock HDPE bottles in a high-gloss material. This material has a surface gloss comparable to PVC and PET, says Richards, but with the cost advantages of HDPE.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Labeling brochure

Sonoco Engraph Label Group (Cold Spring, KY) has released a four-color brochure describing the company's capabilities in labeling for health care, pharmaceutical, consumer products, beverage, chemical and agricultural markets.

June 30, 1996